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lovable subtle details
Mikaela:
Thank you. That's what I thought it was. But the more I thought about it, the stranger I thought that name was.
Guess that's one of the subtle details then; - Ennis gets beaten black and blue to complement that Black and Blue Eagle?
belbbmfan:
--- Quote from: Mikaela on June 07, 2009, 08:55:31 am ---Thank you. That's what I thought it was. But the more I thought about it, the stranger I thought that name was.
Guess that's one of the subtle details then; - Ennis gets beaten black and blue to complement that Black and Blue Eagle?
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I never thought of the name of the bar being strange. But you're right Mikaela. Maybe 'Black and Blue Eagle' is a more common name for a bar in the west. Who knows?
And you're right with your observation about the fight. I makes you wonder whether the name of the bar is a coincidence or not? Somehow I don't think so.
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: belbbmfan on June 07, 2009, 02:51:29 pm ---And you're right with your observation about the fight. I makes you wonder whether the name of the bar is a coincidence or not? Somehow I don't think so.
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Since the Black and Blue Eagle bar comes directly from AP, I'd bet something on the side of "no coincidence".
The sentence from the short story:
"He went to the Black and Blue Eagle bar that night, got drunk, had a short dirty fight and left."
- being beaten black and blue
- the eagle feather in Jack's hat
More referrences to flying/wings/creatures with wings:
- ministering angel, wings folded
- only the two of them on the mountain, flying in the euphoric, bitter air, looking down on the hawk's back (paraphrasing)
optom3:
One thing has always puzzled me,the absence of an eagle feather in Jack's hat in the film. In the S.S the feather is mentioned almost as an indication of Jack's shooting prowess, "he had shot an eagle, he said"
In the film the opposite seems true, Jack is incapable of shooting anything.
Back to the S.S again and in the motel scene, Ennis is descibed as "spreadeagled" after sex. As always there seems so many tie ins. Not forgetting in the S.S Jack tells Ennis he has "just shot my airplane out a the sky"
So many references to flying in both the film and story.
Hmm may have to go and ponder some more.
Front-Ranger:
This may help: read "On buckets, eagles, impatience and..."
and this is where the eagle/horse analogy is first mentioned:
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,569.msg12789.html#msg12789
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