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Black Hats, White Hats
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: brokebackjack on January 11, 2008, 01:48:56 am ---all this time and I never realised they were buying tickets, heading towards the sweet life!!!!!!!!!
that is very very good
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LOL, I'd never noticed the candy before. So, it really is just amazing how many new details there are to discover all the time.
ednbarby:
Here's a new detail that just came to me the other night as I lay awake in bed, not having seen the movie in months...
Did you ever notice that throughout the movie, Jack is always on the right side of the screen when he and Ennis are intimate?
Think about it: TS1 (while he's sleeping, anyway), TS2, post-TS2 romp, Reunion, Motel Siesta... Jack is on the right, or on Ennis' left.
But in the final Tent Scene, Jack is sleeping on the left side of the screen (on Ennis' right).
Coincidence? I think not. ;)
Penthesilea:
BARB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
So great to see you here. Missin ya, girl :-*
--- Quote from: ednbarby on January 11, 2008, 10:40:30 pm ---Here's a new detail that just came to me the other night as I lay awake in bed, not having seen the movie in months...
Did you ever notice that throughout the movie, Jack is always on the right side of the screen when he and Ennis are intimate?
Think about it: TS1 (while he's sleeping, anyway), TS2, post-TS2 romp, Reunion, Motel Siesta... Jack is on the right, or on Ennis' left.
But in the final Tent Scene, Jack is sleeping on the left side of the screen (on Ennis' right).
Coincidence? I think not. ;)
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That's a great obversation, albeit their positions are not continous in those scenes. For example, in TS2 first Ennis the one on the right; and during the Reunion the camera angle switches repeated times, so that sometimes Ennis is on the right, sometimes Jack.
But I think this doesn't take away from your observation; we had other examples where Ang Lee mostly stuck to one pattern (with symbols or whatever) - but not always. Maybe it would be too easy otherwise :).
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on January 12, 2008, 07:57:57 am ---
we had other examples where Ang Lee mostly stuck to one pattern (with symbols or whatever) - but not always. Maybe it would be too easy otherwise :).
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I think it's definitely very fair to say that Lee and the cinematographer (Rodrigo I guess) established visual patterns pretty early in the film.
One of the big examples of straying from a pattern (back on the hat topic) is Jack's hat colors. It always bugs me that his hat color fluctuates. I mean, I think we all think of Jack as the black hat cowboy... but sometimes (and in important scenes too) he wears tan.
Gabreya:
I always thought that the black hat and white hat are the symbolisms of Ennis and Jack's differences, despite they do in fact attract. Black and white colors will always go well with eachother. Plus, black hats isn't always worn by the bad guys. Lol!
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