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lovable subtle details
Sheriff Roland:
I've been wondering where to post this - guess it is a lovable subtle detail (after all, it only took me some 40 viewings before I noticed it) - well here goes...
In the "Friend, that's more words you spoke in two weeks" scene, Heath/Ennis uses a speech style that is Sooo jaring that I never accepted it in my mind - I would aparently always change it to the subjective pronoun "I"
The quote ...
...Then he got married. And no more room for me. That's how come me end up here.
It took me the english subtitles (which I rarely use) to catch this unusual phrasing [I think he's simply repeating the same pronoun that he had used in the previous sentence], that helps project Ennis' lack of formal education. Anyone else never notice this detail?
nakymaton:
--- Quote from: Roland on July 27, 2006, 12:03:44 pm ---The quote ...
...Then he got married. And no more room for me. That's how come me end up here.
It took me the english subtitles (which I rarely use) to catch this unusual phrasing [I think he's simply repeating the same pronoun that he had used in the previous sentence], that helps project Ennis' lack of formal education. Anyone else never notice this detail?
--- End quote ---
I first saw that quote in writing, actually, in the text of an Adapted Screenplay "For Your Consideration" ad back before the movie was released. And I thought it was odd phrasing (and odd for an adapted screenplay ad), because it didn't read very naturally to me. (It just isn't one of the common grammatical errors that I hear a lot, not in quite that way.) It sounds fine when Heath says it, for some reason. (Maybe because the dynamic between Ennis and Jack is just so wonderful in that entire scene that I can't nitpick the dialogue.)
Front-Ranger:
The word "come" seems to trip him up sometimes. How come me end up here...If I should come to know them.
nakymaton:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on July 27, 2006, 12:32:13 pm ---The word "come" seems to trip him up sometimes. How come me end up here...If I should come to know them.
--- End quote ---
It's the innuendo that gets to him, every time.
jpwagoneer1964:
Ever notice the Way Ennis walks , his srtance, into the tent the 2nd night is exactly the same as went he goes to the kitchen to get a beer while waiting for Jack after 4 years.
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