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lovable subtle details
newyearsday:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on April 30, 2006, 05:31:50 pm ---Amanda, I just wanted to mention that I love the Jack=wind metaphor, too. I've made a study of it, and I find that every time he is either in a scene or it's clear Ennis is thinking about him, we hear the wind howling in the background (and sometimes in the foreground). I love how it's almost at a fever pitch outside when Ennis is sitting on his bed in his undershirt with his eyes closed while Alma hugs him from behind, trying with all his might to pretend she is him. Same as when he's in his trailer at the very end, and the wind is just whipping up a frenzy outside.
I also *love* that Aguirre says when Jack returns the next summer looking for Ennis: "Well. Look what the wind blew in." Not look what the cat dragged in which is of course the most common way of saying the same thing, but what the wind blew in.
I should probably post this next bit in the most irrational reactions thread, but it follows here. The wind down here in South Florida has been howling every day for months. It's eerie and giving me a bad feeling about the upcoming hurricane season. March is usually very blowy down here, but February and April aren't so much. When it started up in February after I'd seen the movie a few times and discovered the wind metaphor, I walked outside one morning to get the paper, and it was whipping things up in such a Jack-like way, I just had to say out loud, "Hiya, Jack."I'm not suffering from insanity - I'm quite enjoying it, actually.
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Lovely lovely post, Barb. Howdy by the way. Your necklace should arrive in a couple of days. So, yes, I need to look for the wind blowing more in that Alma/Ennis scene in the bedroom; it's been mentioned before by EnnisLovesJack I think. And I love that you said 'Hiya, Jack' to the wind! *wimpers from the bittersweetness*. The whole "Love is a Force of Nature" thing just has so many layers. It's truely astounding how gorgeous that metaphor is.
I love this thread in general too. And Julie, there is a nice newish thread on the big board that Meryl started several weeks ago called the Number Three (I think it's called that.) It will be saved in the archives.
And here's my favorite un-talked about moment (at least to my knowledge--hope I'm not repeating someone else's thoughts): I always LOVE LOVE LOVE the shot of Jack looking for the blue parka in the closet, standing with his weight on one leg like that, cute butt, purple shirt, kinda annoyed in this adorable way b/c he's wantin a redline it but can't leave yet.
I love Jake's butt in that scene! not such a subtle detail, but very lovable!
:D ;D :D
Brown Eyes:
-I love that the BetterMost cans are blue and brown... sort of mirroring the signature colors for Jack and Ennis.
-I love that after Ennis's nose starts to bleed, right before the sucker punch, Jack caresses Ennis's face just like he does when he's about to kiss him in the second tent scene.
-And, now I have a question about a subtle detail. Why does Alma go and get her purse after she sees Ennis and Jack kiss? In her state of shock she goes and deliberately packs up her purse and has it ready. Does she really even want to go out with them after wha she's seen? Does she still think that dinner at the Knife and Fork is still an option? Somehow I find this gesture of hers particularly heartbreaking in contrast to the pure joy going on between our boys.
maggiesmommy GayLee:
in the short story it says she is trying to delay Ennis' and JAcks departure by asking Ennis to go get her"smokes", he anticipates this and says before she can even finish her thoughts that if she needs smoles they are in the pocket of his blue shirt in the closet..
Sheriff Roland:
--- Quote from: atz75 on May 01, 2006, 11:24:56 pm ---And, now I have a question about a subtle detail. Why does Alma go and get her purse after she sees Ennis and Jack kiss? In her state of shock she goes and deliberately packs up her purse and has it ready. Does she really even want to go out with them after wha she's seen? Does she still think that dinner at the Knife and Fork is still an option? Somehow I find this gesture of hers particularly heartbreaking in contrast to the pure joy going on between our boys.
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Amanda, I just took it as something to keep herself busy with her hands, while she's mulling things over - I know - pretty lame, but that was my train of thought on the subject. Does everything have to have a meaning?
maggiesmommy GayLee:
copied and pasted from my downloaded copy of teh short story...i was wrong about delaying the departure, it was to bring him back sooner...
"Sure enough," Alma said, taking a dollar bill from her pocket. Ennis guessed she was going to ask him to get her a pack of cigarettes, bring him back sooner.
"Please to meet you," said Jack, trembling like a run-out horse.
"Ennis -- " said Alma in her misery voice, but that didn't slow him down on the stairs and he called back, "Alma, you want smokes there's some in the pocket a my blue shirt in the bedroom."
They went off in Jack's truck, bought a bottle of whiskey and within twenty minutes were in the Motel Siesta jouncing a bed. A few handfuls of hail rattled against the window followed by rain and slippery wind banging the unsecured door of the next room then and through the night.
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