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Interpreting the Brokeback poster
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: TOoP/Bruce on November 15, 2007, 04:24:25 pm --- I don't think this is either a negative or a positive, but Janus Funds Inc. is the name of a large family of mutual funds here in the US of A.
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Maybe the poster designers were trying to subtly appeal to the personal investors demographic. ;D
TOoP/Bruce:
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on November 15, 2007, 04:33:23 pm ---Maybe the poster designers were trying to subtly appeal to the personal investors demographic. ;D
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Product placement? Perhaps?
delalluvia:
I don't go for the Janus thing, but just to throw around some more ideas, Janus was also a god of beginnings, of doorways, the old year and the new year, looking ahead and looking behind.
The two-faced thing can be seen as negative, but it can also be seen as the two men having two sides to themselves - one face they show to society, another face they show to each other.
serious crayons:
Good observation, Del.
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on November 16, 2007, 02:11:33 am ---The two-faced thing can be seen as negative, but it can also be seen as the two men having two sides to themselves - one face they show to society, another face they show to each other.
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I think this is very good. It's interesting how the positioning of the two figures (that aspect alone) can have so many levels of meaning and meanings that can in fact be a bit disparate. It can be read as an image of intimacy or as this really rather layered allegorical composition. And, then the fact that the image evokes (but doesn't precisely illustrate) moments in the actual film is important too. It's very interesting that this juxataposition of Jack and Ennis is never precisely seen in the film and, as has been pointed out... the landscape is similar to familiar landscape in the film... but again not precisely the same as the most significant images of landscape seen in the film.
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