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TOTW 01/08: Do you think Jack was murdered or was it an accident?
Brown Eyes:
On the topic of the ambiguity of Jack's death... I thought I'd bring this quotation over here from the recently posted interview with Pierre Tremblay. His comments are very helpful here I think... they only really re-confirm the importance of the ambiguity, but are really fascinating. He's talking about the reason the mechanics scene was deliberately cut from the film.
--- Quote ---The [deleted] Sneering Mechanics scene?
We shot that very quickly, but it did not make it into the film, which I thought was an interesting choice. It leaves Jack’s demise open to question. You are not sure if you see Ennis’ fears or what actually happened.
I guarantee you that Lee did that expressly, the superb filmmaker that he is, so that there would be questioning. If he had included this scene, you would have known immediately what happened, and why, but because he didn’t, you are not sure if Lureen is telling the real story. You’re left to wonder about the truth behind Jack’s death.
It was a way of making it less explicit, and leaving the story much more open to interpretation. I’m sure that was a big debate, a huge choice. It was a tiny thing, but a very important piece of the picture that he purposely left out.
--- End quote ---
The full interview can be found here:
http://www.findingbrokeback.com/Interviews/Tremblay2/Tremblay1.html
And, of course the thread discussing this interview can be found over in the Chez Tremblay forum here:
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,21675.0.html
Artiste:
Merci atz !
He says that: you would have known what happened !
So Jack was murdered ? Or are those mechanics for another murder that had happened ?
Au revoir,
hugs!
Brown Eyes:
He's saying that Ang Lee deliberately left the scene with the mechanics out of the film so that the audience would never really know how Jack died based on the film as a finished product. I think it's very important that we never really know how Jack dies. And, the idea that what we see of Jack's "murder" in the finshed film is only Ennis's imagination is really fascinating to me.
Artiste:
He is sure about that ! ??
The mechanics might have been for the other murdered gay man ?
Artiste:
Of course, Jack in the Brokeback Mountain movie was murdered because he was a gay man, and so easy for con artists to murder him since gays are friendly !
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