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What is the happiest scene?

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ednbarby:
Because all these you've mentioned are tinged with sadness, I'm gonna go earlier, and say the "Hell, that's the most I've spoke in a year" scene.  I love the little smile that creeps across Jack's face when he realizes Ennis is opening up to him, and I love Ennis' smile on realizing he's just done that, too.  Passionate love like theirs is painful even at its best.  But falling into that love is ecstasy.

Jeff Wrangler:
I'm actually going to go with the "rodeo cowboys is all fuckups" scene, with Jack's goofy little bullriding imitation, and we get the biggest smile out of Ennis we see in the entire film. Just our two boys having fun together, no stress, no angst, nothing bittersweet to taint it--makes me smile just to watch it.

Front-Ranger:
I have to vote for the reunion scene because there's such a big buildup that it's a tremendous release when they clinch in that embrace. It's choreographed so perfectly! Also, because when they were on the mountain they were deliriously happy but didn't know how happy they were, and in the reunion it was like a bolt of lightning from the mountain that brought all the happiness back in a rush. No one hardly ever gets a second chance like that. Damn Ennis for not following through!

p.s. Chris, read the story! Do you need me to send it to you??

Penthesilea:
Ang Lee is not fair to us and our boys. Every happy scene has the shadow of sadness or doom in it.


* The reunion: Alma watching and being shocked.
* The happy tussle: Aguirre watching.
* Even very early in the movie, in the campfire scene ("the most I've spoke in a year"): look at Jack's face. It's only half-smiling. The other half is kinda sad and tender-hearted, because he outright knows that it's the truth (not literally) what Ennis says.
* The motel scene: Ennis saying "Me? I don't know" and that there's nothing they can do about it.
* The prayer of thanks: followed by the story about Earl and Rich and "ain't no reigns on this one".
* Let alone the flashback.
(Jeez! Are we all masochistic? Why do we love this movie so much?  ;) )

That said I have to vote for the reunion scene, too. I'm pretty good in ignoring Alma's harm in that scene  :)

TJ:
When Aguirre observed the boys with his binocuars (at least once), he had done that for 10 minutes and waited until they got dressed before he went to tell Jack about his Uncle Harold having pneumonia.

In the movie, when Aguirre was watching them, the guys were very happy just being themselves as immature teenagers. In the movie, Aguirre certainly waited quite a while before he went to deliver the message from Jack's mother about his uncle. I think that, in a way, Aguirre had some respect for the guys private time together, although it was literally in the open.

From the way that the story goes, Forest Rangers up in the lookout towers belonging to the US Forest Service could have observed what was going on, too. The book does not mention that fact though. But, even when the guys were up on the mountain, at the campsite and with the sheep, they could see the lights of vehicles on the highway down below.

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