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Scene Discussion: Making Breakfast

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Front-Ranger:
I just wish that danged ax wouldn't be forever pointing at his haid!!

Front-Ranger:
For a discussion called "Hand in Glove" you are invited to click here as soon as you see the little white glove:

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,4692.0.html

Front-Ranger:
Another thought about the ax...what if it has a greater meaning like the gun and the knives do? Not just that Jack is doomed, but something else. . .  It's interesting that the ax is a double-headed ax. In ancient Minoan civilization, this kind of ax was known as the labyris and it was a sign of the goddess. There was an ancient ritual, described by Mary Stewart in the book The King Must Die, where youths from mainland Greece were sacrificed by being sent to Crete where they learned a sport that included flipping over the back of a charging bull. A huge bull, an object of worship as well as fear, was kept in a maze/enclosure called a labyrinth, named after the double-headed ax.

tampatalon:
All the items in pairs are maybe representative of Jack&Ennis as a pair and Ennis with the sieve could represent how Jack slips away from Ennis in death as their relationship drains away so painfully with Jack's passing yet to come?

tampatalon

mvansand76:

--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on June 17, 2007, 05:35:53 pm ---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!!




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Soooo this shows that in the first picture Ennis is holding the (probably scalding hot) pan with a glove on, while in the second picture Jack takes his glove OFF to grab the (probably scalding hot) coffee can!

Does that say something about how they approach life, with and without caution?

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