Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond > Brokeback Mountain Open Forum

Scene Discussion: Making Breakfast

(1/3) > >>

Front-Ranger:
Here is another interesting scene in the movie. Here we see Ennis making breakfast for Jack as Jack rides up from a nite on the mountain in the pup tent that smells like cat piss or worse.

Notice something interesting about this scene? Here's a hint: We see a lot of things in twos...cans of BetterMost beans, salt and pepper, etc. But there's one interesting thing that is solo. What is it?

Penthesilea:
We're playing quizzies tonight  ;)? Okay, I'll play along  :).

Ennis's glove and this thing are solo:




I have no idea how it is called in English, and this time my online dictionary doesn't help either.

The fork is not solo, because it's a pair with the frying pan, and the coffeepot is not solo because it's a pair with the bucket.

Front-Ranger:
Very good sleuthing, Chrissi. That thing is called a sieve, and I'm surprised about how often it appears in the movie. It is used to separate excess liquid in a dish such as ... soup!

I am hazarding a guess here that the cooking implements and the farming implements serve similar purposes in advancing the symbolism in the movie.

Now about the glove...you are right that Ennis is only wearing one glove. To show what is important about this, I have to go over to my other computer...just a sec.

RodneyFL:
For one thing, a bull rider wears only one glove.  Any parallel to that???

Front-Ranger:
You're very warm, Chrissi and Rodney...

Yes, a bullrider only wears one glove, particularly when said bullrider wants to gauge the "temperature of the coffeepot" so to speak!! And here is said bullrider now!!

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page