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lovable subtle details
alec716:
--- Quote from: alec716 on June 10, 2006, 09:43:10 pm ---Excellent! Thanks for the chuckle. The Widow Twist could have started the first PFLAG chapter in Wyoming, and Bobby could have had the first "I love my gay dads" t-shirt in the Great American West. Now what if Bobby and Jenny took a fancy to each other over summer vacation?
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And if had not been so tired and had 3 St. Bernards bugging me for a walk when I accidentally pressed "post," I would have added "oh, that already happened on Will & Grace..." I guess the lateness makes it lame, but I tried.... MUST go to sleep now!
alec716:
here's the subtle detail I love today ...
that that huge combine machine Jack helps young Bobby to drive is, as indicated by the logo above the front grille,
"Versatile."
:o
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on June 10, 2006, 04:20:35 am ---I always plan to pay more attention to details, esp. to details I read about and haven't notived before. Meanwhile I succeed for the first part of the movie, but then I get lost again. Esp. the last third is still too devastating to be able to recognize anything beyond the obvious through the tears.
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Me too, Penth. One thing I have noticed is animal skulls on the wall when Jack and Ennis are together -- there's one in the bar where they're having beers and (maybe?) one somewhere else. So I always think, maybe that skull means something; I'd better watch and see if I spot any other skulls. I never do, but I'm not sure if that's because they don't exist or because I get too caught up in the story and forget to look. Anybody else see any?
jpwagoneer1964:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on May 02, 2006, 10:38:49 pm ---maggiesmom, you got it. Completely. Mrs. Twist knows that the love of her son's life is in her house. She wants to keep him there as long as possible so as to keep a piece of her beloved son alive - hence the "You come back and see us" and the grasping at her own throat. But we know Ennis will never come back - he's seen all he needs to see. And really, so does she. That's what so overwhelmingly (in my case, anyway) heartbreaking about this scene.
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I like to think that as time went by Ennis returned to Lightning Flat as Jack did at least yearly after his trips with Ennis to help on the old ranch. In Jacks place he may have come to live there after his father passed to help Mrs. Twist as his way of honering Jack and the kindness his mother gave him. Of course he would have Jacks childhood room, the shirts returning to the closet where Jack safley protected them for so many years. This is where Ennis would have felt closest to Jack, where he grew up.
jpwagoneer1964:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on May 04, 2006, 05:16:38 pm ---Even if he never told her about them, she would know that Jack would never wear a shirt like Ennis'. His shirts were always solid. When you watch the other stuff hanging there, there are a couple of coats and solid shirts. A loving mama would recognize immediately that it wasn't his shirt but another man's, and she'd have already known Jack was gay by her very lovingness and acceptance of him. Add to that, as you say, his talk of Ennis Del Mar, and she'd have it all put together.
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In the camping scene after the reunion Jack IS wearing a plaid shirt under his jacket, but its the only time.
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