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lovable subtle details
nakymaton:
I read an interview with Michelle Williams about the purse detail (and I can't find it any more). It was apparently her idea -- it was supposed to be a sort of instinctive reaction, that Alma would reach for one comforting thing that was clearly hers... and that was her purse. Alma couldn't make sense of what she just saw, but the things in her purse were real and solid and hers and made sense, and so she reached for them.
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: Roland on May 01, 2006, 11:31:13 pm ---Does everything have to have a meaning?
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Heya Roland... yes! ::) :D :-\ ;)
nakymaton... I like your suggestion/ Michelle's suggestion. That makes good sense and makes it more interesting. I didn't really think of the purse action as being connected with the smokes question (either in the story or in the film). I think she was asking Ennis to get cigarettes and come back with them hoping that it would somehow make him come home quicker. I don't think she was thinking of going out for them on her own... she would have had to drag the girls along etc.
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: atz75 on April 29, 2006, 12:25:50 am ----here's a new detail (thinking of early moments of physical contact)- as they're setting up their second camp we see a long shot of Jack picking up that drift-wood log from the stream near the bridge and hauls it up on his shoulder. Ennis comes over to him and seems to touch Jack on his shoulder or arm. An interesting moment where Ennis is initiating a bit of intimacy. A display of just how comfortable and friendly he's feeling towards Jack. It's funny that he doesn't seem to be coming to help carry the log... just to touch Jack.
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Yes! I have been meaning to mention this and ask y'all's thoughts on this moment for months. This happens before the first tent scene. It seems very relaxed and affectionate.
twistedude:
chefjudy--well, I had to do the washing up as well...the entire Thanksgiving day is one long cook and gorge...I don't do it anymore...I'm 71 today, and I've had ENOUGH THANKSGIVING to last a lifetime or two...at first, I hardly looked at the Thanksgiving scenes in Brokeback, till I started noticing interestiong little things that had nothing to do with Thanksgiving.
Are there 3 full moons in the movie..,or 4?
starboardlight:
--- Quote from: julie01 on May 02, 2006, 02:26:11 am ---chefjudy--well, I had to do the washing up as well...the entire Thanksgiving day is one long cook and gorge...I don't do it anymore...I'm 71 today, and I've had ENOUGH THANKSGIVING to last a lifetime or two...at first, I hardly looked at the Thanksgiving scenes in Brokeback, till I started noticing interestiong little things that had nothing to do with Thanksgiving.
Are there 3 full moons in the movie..,or 4?
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there were 3 full moons.
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