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"I was supposed to control the weather"... Jack and the Wind
loneleeb3:
--- Quote from: atz75 on November 17, 2007, 08:59:10 pm ---Thanks Friend! The wind is my all-time favorite metaphor in BBM (in both the film and the story... and I'm just so glad that the filmmatkers really picked up on the wind idea from the story). Absolutely gorgeous idea and symbol... and the ways that this symbol funcitons are just so numerous and profound.
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I know, they did a fantastic job.
The wind is truly like another character in the movie.
I don't know if it's been mentioned (probably has cause I'm not really smart enough to come up with this on my own so I probably heard it somewhere and don't remember! LOL) but it seems to me like Ennis Jack and the wind form some type of trinity. Just like in Christianity, when Jesus ascends to be with the Father his Holy Spirit descends upon us to be with us. kinda like Jack and the wind.
Brown Eyes:
Bumping! Somehow this thread had fallen all the way down to page 6 of Open Forum! Yikes. :o
Front-Ranger:
Well that is an unsatisfactory situation, friend! (said with a Texas twang)
Thought of Jack last nite as the howling wind ushered in a warm front to the Front Range.
loneleeb3:
It's so funny, Everytime it gets windy I think of Jack.
Once here recently I was chasing a recipt that had blown out of my car across the parking lot.
everytime I just about got my dern hands on it the wind would blow it about a foot ahead.
Finally I said "Very funny Jack, now can I getthat recipt?" I walked right over and picked it up wthout another gust of wind to blow it away. I can just imagine Jack sayin "Aww heck, I was just funnin ya! " :laugh: :laugh:
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: loneleeb3 on December 02, 2008, 02:46:43 pm ---It's so funny, Everytime it gets windy I think of Jack.
Once here recently I was chasing a recipt that had blown out of my car across the parking lot.
everytime I just about got my dern hands on it the wind would blow it about a foot ahead.
Finally I said "Very funny Jack, now can I getthat recipt?" I walked right over and picked it up wthout another gust of wind to blow it away. I can just imagine Jack sayin "Aww heck, I was just funnin ya! " :laugh: :laugh:
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:laugh: Jack must have heard you. Great story.
I love how almost three years into it our boys are still never too far from our minds in our everyday lives.
It's the same with the wind for me. Given that I don't live in a windy area. So when we do have a windy day every now and then, I always think of Jack. And of Barb, because I always think "Jack is here" (Barb is the one who originally posted the thread with the same name).
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