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Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on February 24, 2009, 12:21:58 pm ---Expanding your list (new items bolded):
Pair a deuces
neither of them was 20
42 sheep
43 miles
$24 in a coffee can
40 winks
coming thru on the 24th
Four f'in years
2 girls
8 months old
17 (on the mailbox)
19 (can do what you want)
One's enough (postcard from L.Higgin's shop)
We have talked about the twos, the 8 and the 17. Lots and lots of twos on the short story.
About the 17 (recapitulating from back then): the 17 on the mailbox, 17 letters in Brokeback Mountain, 17 mountain ranges listed by Proulx in the short stoy.
The 8: uh, it's so long ago. They miss August twice, the eighth month. There was more to the eight, but I don't remember right now.
But we never found (searched for?) an overall pattern of all the numbers.
There are definitively a lot of numbers, especially measured by the short length of the story.
And you're right: the four shows up very often.
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I would add the number 3 to the list. As in "3 hours to cook...". I'm forgetting all the instances of the number 3, but I recall early on at imdb there was a whole thread (kind of comical) about the number 3.
Meryl:
--- Quote from: atz75 on February 24, 2009, 01:36:03 pm ---I would add the number 3 to the list. As in "3 hours to cook...". I'm forgetting all the instances of the number 3, but I recall early on at imdb there was a whole thread (kind of comical) about the number 3.
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That was a thread I started, Amanda. I'd been thinking about it when the discussion of numbers came up. Although "three" is rarely spoken in the dialogue, there are an amazing number of threes in the book and movie. Here's the link over in the IMDb Rewound forum:
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,10834.0.html
:)
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: Meryl on February 24, 2009, 07:00:10 pm ---That was a thread I started, Amanda. I'd been thinking about it when the discussion of numbers came up. Although "three" is rarely spoken in the dialogue, there are an amazing number of threes in the book and movie. Here's the link over in the IMDb Rewound forum:
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,10834.0.html
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:D :D :D
Very cool High Priestess! Clearly that thread made an impression on me, but I confess I'd forgotten that you were the thread starter... so that certainly is neat! And, I'm also happy to learn that it's archived here.
I love that so many important imdb threads have been preserved. :)
nagsheadsea412:
i love the way jack can express anything with those large blue eyes...and it seems more extreme on the big screen...and when those eyes are focused on Ennis, they're so sensitive and profound...not to mention, of course, sensual....
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on February 24, 2009, 12:04:53 pm ---Have we ever analyzed all the mentions of numbers to see if there's some pattern?
Pair a deuces
42 sheep
43 miles
$24 in a coffee can
40 winks
Four f'in years
17 (on the mailbox)
19 (can do what you want)
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--- Quote from: Penthesilea on February 24, 2009, 12:21:58 pm ---Expanding your list (new items bolded):
Pair a deuces
neither of them was 20
42 sheep
43 miles
$24 in a coffee can
40 winks
coming thru on the 24th
Four f'in years
2 girls
8 months old
17 (on the mailbox)
19 (can do what you want)
One's enough (postcard from L.Higgin's shop)
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This is OT I know, but has anybody else here used "Brokeback" lottery numbers?
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