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lovable subtle details
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 01, 2009, 09:13:03 am ---I find it very lovable that Ennis asks Jack if he's got a blanket on the night before the first tent scene. Ennis had started out being the camp tender and he would have known darn well where the blankets were kept but instead he asked Jack meekly for a blanket. In his drunkenness, he became almost like a baby and was inclined to follow Jack's orders later that night when he told him to get in the tent. :)
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This is an interesting observation about the blanket Lee. You're right... he's asking about the blankets as if they really do belong to Jack, but he would have ben as much aware of their gear as Jack.
--- Quote from: optom3 on May 01, 2009, 06:41:59 pm ---I love the fact that I see only Ennis and not Heath.
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Yes, I agree with this too... and the same can be said for Jake/ Jack.
Katie77:
--- Quote from: optom3 on May 01, 2009, 06:41:59 pm ---I love seeing Ennis season the food he is cooking as if it was fine dining, and maybe it was. It seems such a l;oving thing to do.
I love the fact that I am still here discussing the movie, right down to subtle details. Ilove the fact that I see only Ennis and not Heath.
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Yes, we do get so involved in other subjects on here, that we are spending less and less time talking about the movie. But thats not because we dont think about it, I guess its because most things have all ready been said.
And now, Im just reading about the blanket and Ennis seasoning the food, and I have a little smile to myself about those subtle details, and I'm sitting here now, smiling about our two boys and their little habits in the movie.
Actually having a giggle now, about Ennis shaking the salt and pepper, like he wa a chef in a bloody high class restaurant. You know I think I have always thought that, watching that scene, but didn't realize it, until you wrote about it.
I miss the boys, cause I havent watched the movie for quite a while. I think i will pay them a little visit, real soon.
Monika:
In the road work scene; the other man has his shirt open, but to me it´s a nice detail that Ennis doesn´t even though the heat almost calls for it. It works so well with the theme of Ennis not being open to others, but always keeping everything locked up inside.
fernly:
Very interesting posts, friends, so nice to see this thread active :D
--- Quote from: optom3 on February 28, 2009, 10:26:36 am ---It seems there are many references including the numbers in the 40's .I wonder if it is a deliberate link to the fact that Jack never made his 40th birthday, as in " he was only 39 years old" when he died, as said by Lureen on the phone to Ennis.
That however may be a leap too far but I always felt it was very poignant.In that he never reached the big 40 as it is often referred to.
Probably the 2 most cataclysmic events in Jack's life, one good, one horrendous, occurred in the last year of a decade.He met and fell in love with Ennis when he was 19 and he dies when he is 39. Yet separating those 2 odd numbers is 20 the number of years he knew Ennis. A very even number and in sharp contrast to the 19 and 39.
The 19,as in the age of Alma junior when she tells Ennis she is getting married, surely has to be reference to both Jack and Ennis.They were both 19 when they met, and Ennis had the opportunity to grab what hopefully Alma is going to. A happy life with the one they love.He blew it so we hope in direct contrast Alma will grab it with both hands and run.
It is very poignant that Ennis asks if Kurt loves her, not the other way round.
Jack loved Ennis and he now knows it, in the same way he can finally accept that he loved Jack. The contrast is stark.The melancholy of Ennis all the more apparant.
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to pick up on just one of your points above, Fiona, about cataclysmic events in the last year of decades...it was that way for Ennis, too - meeting Jack when he was 19, losing him when he was probably 39, too, and being taken to that ditch to see Earl's murdered body, when he was a little boy of 9.
And, in the story at least, Ennis' divorce, and the awful post-divorce scene when he rejects Jack and Jack heads to Mexico in despair, occurred "...when Alma Jr. was nine..." Alma would have turned nine in 1973, when Jack and Ennis were both 29.
optom3:
--- Quote from: Katie77 on May 02, 2009, 02:35:58 am ---Yes, we do get so involved in other subjects on here, that we are spending less and less time talking about the movie. But thats not because we dont think about it, I guess its because most things have all ready been said.
And now, Im just reading about the blanket and Ennis seasoning the food, and I have a little smile to myself about those subtle details, and I'm sitting here now, smiling about our two boys and their little habits in the movie.
Actually having a giggle now, about Ennis shaking the salt and pepper, like he wa a chef in a bloody high class restaurant. You know I think I have always thought that, watching that scene, but didn't realize it, until you wrote about it.
I miss the boys, cause I havent watched the movie for quite a while. I think i will pay them a little visit, real soon.
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I smiled too at the condiment/seasoning scene. It is so cute and I had forgotten how much I love talking about the boys.I too must pay them a visit real soon.
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