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lovable subtle details
TOoP/Bruce:
--- Quote from: Casey Cornelius on May 01, 2007, 12:17:22 am ---HI Amanda,
I believe that the Notice Anything So Subtle thread's content has been reposted by an indefatiguable poster named
True Oracle of Phoenix. Can't wade through the entire IMDb board right now to find it, but I'm sure a version of the original thread is still up there.
Casey
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Casey,
This is a link to the original thread. Oddly enough, the original is still around. I never needed to repost it!
Notice anything so subtle in the film???I did...scene spoilers -- by anml-lvr
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388795/board/nest/36287482
"TOoP" / bjblakeslee
Casey Cornelius:
Hey bjblakeslee:
Grateful for the link. Thanks...
From your comment should I gather that your moniker is True_Oracle-of_Phoenix
on the IMDb Brokeback Board?
fernly:
--- Quote from: Casey Cornelius ---Jack...nervously wiping his face again as Aguirre is seen walking back and forth in the trailer and Ennis has his back to Jack. I like to think that Jack is furtively wiping his face again not for the sake of impressing Aguirre, but this time to make sure he looks his best for Ennis.
It's not mentioned in any of the versions of the three screenplays I have, so credit must be given to Ang Lee and Jake Gyllenhaal for this detail in a film with countless such subtle and meaningful touches.
Casey Cornelius
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Hey Casey...great to see you here!
At the same that Jack is wiping his face, Ennis nervously shakes the paper bag.
And maybe I'm reading way too much into it, but that and Jack's gesture together seem to possibly bookend the end of the film, when Ennis carries the other paper bag, after Jack wasn't able to wipe his face clear of the blood that killed him.
TOoP/Bruce:
--- Quote from: Casey Cornelius on May 02, 2007, 11:51:52 pm ---Hey bjblakeslee:
Grateful for the link. Thanks...
From your comment should I gather that your moniker is True_Oracle-of_Phoenix
on the IMDb Brokeback Board?
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True_Oracle_of_Phoenix, I am. As "bjblakeslee" on IMDB I was a regular poster, but when I ran out of things to say, I became TOoP the Archivist. (I have saved what I could, but alas, I was unable save everything. For example, you once began a separate thread on BbM's theatrical poster and it's resemblance not just to Titanic's, but to the double-headed figure of Janus, and to a legend of a same-sex duality archetype in Plato's Symposium. Did you perchance save that thread? It eluded my capture.)
miniangel:
Fernly, you aren't reading too much into that bag shake. The opening scene and the scene at the Twists have mirror actions and shots, going from the edge to the centre of the film, i,e, starting and ending with the landscape shots. E.g. Jack waits at the bottom of the stairs, his mum waits at the top, Mr T and Aguirre are the first and last to mention Brokeback and each of their speeches is interrupted, etc. etc.
The story also sets the two scenes up as complements of each other.
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