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Joe Aguirre: what do you think of this character as portrayed in the movie?
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: brokeplex on December 18, 2007, 03:56:14 pm ---Now to the comment Aguirre made in the trailer in 1964 when Jack came back for a new job. Essentially, Aguirre was willing to let Jack leave without mentioning his knowledge that Ennis and Jack's affair created an inattention to the sheep. This negligence contributed to the unacceptable financial losses Aguirre suffered that year. Of course Aguirre wasn't going to hire him again! But he didn't bring up his knowledge of their 'affair'.... UNTIL, Jack tried to use Aguirre as a dating service!
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Exactly!
--- Quote from: moremojo on December 18, 2007, 05:05:07 pm ---Ah, but they succeeded in something much, much more important.
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True. But that would be from our standpoint.
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 18, 2007, 05:29:35 pm ---I was reading in True West Magazine that the main reason two sheepherders were sent up the mountain together was so that they could, er, keep each other company through the long summer. Even for the most staunchly straight guy, a whole summer without the companionship of anything but sheep and dogs was just too much to ask.
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Yes, that's what I've heard, too. And that the employers were often pretty laissez faire about how they defined "keep each other company."
;)
moremojo:
But if Aguirre were sending Jack and Ennis up the mountain together to keep each other company, why would he take umbrage when they ended up doing precisely that?
It's also important to remember that Aguirre is breaking the rules himself, from the very beginning, by asking one of the boys to camp overnight on land declared off-limits for such by the law. Jack and Ennis could perhaps be excused for being lax with Aguirre's rules when he himself was lax with the government's rules.
moremojo:
--- Quote from: Kd5000 on December 07, 2007, 12:00:20 am ---My opinion of Aguirre has changed recently. It seems that when Jack was exiting the trailer after his last encounter with Aguirre, a scene was cut which showed two mechanics who stare accusingly at Jack. It seems Aguirre had spilled the beans to a few of the locals about what he had witnessed. Conjecture is that after Jack saw their reaction, he was apt to prove his heterosexuality and hooked up with Lureen.
Darn, I guess we will never get to see those deleted scenes. My source was READING BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN.
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The film as it now stands would complicate this implication, since we see Jack hitting on rodeo-clown Jimbo (admittedly in Texas) after his exchange with Aguirre.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: moremojo on December 18, 2007, 05:58:52 pm ---But if Aguirre were sending Jack and Ennis up the mountain together to keep each other company, why would he take umbrage when they ended up doing precisely that?
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Because the sheep count wasn't what he'd hoped for.
moremojo:
--- Quote from: brokeplex on December 10, 2007, 01:17:41 am ---Exactly, the bureaucrats in Washington did not then and probably now still do not understand the challenges faced in rural areas.
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While this is no doubt true, it is worth remembering that some of those Washington bureaucrats were elected to office by the very Rocky Mountain ranch folk who seem to chafe at the restrictions their representatives impose upon them. By the same token, a few of those Washington bureaucrats come from ranch and farming backgrounds (e.g., Dick Cheney, Larry Craig).
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