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TOTW 02/08: Was Lureen pregnant when she met Jack?

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brokeplex:

--- Quote from: brokebackjack on September 07, 2008, 10:03:29 pm ---It's possible...but I just don't buy it.

Lureen found Jack to be the love of her life. She MAY have been pregnant but aside from the date within the film....


Remember too, the film is one of the few scripts which managed to adhere so closely to it's original 'print' story.

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we have a differing impression of Lureen. I see both Jack and Lureen as manipulating and using each other for their own ends. Now in the case of Alma and her feelings for Ennis, yes! Ennis was the love of her life, and her bitterness lasted thru the years at the failure of her marriage to him. I don't see Lureen as being much upset about Jack, oh, of course she didn't want him to die, but I suspect Lureen moved on after her last conversation with Ennis about Jack.

your last line in your post brings up an interesting point about unintentional continuity errors. I think that we have all spotted them and there is an entire thread devoted to them, I love spotting errors in films. But, I don't think that the sign over the announcers booth is an error, like the hood at first not being completely closed on Jack's truck when the boys came down off the mountain and he drove off, or the block of wood mysteriously moving around when Jack was talking to Aguirre in the Uncle Harold scene. Those types of errors do not affect the nature of the film, but the sign over the announcers booth does, and I think that the crew on the film would have caught the error and changed it - if it wasn't intentional on the part of Ang Lee to leave it in. 

Artiste:
Even if Lureen was pregnant by another man obviously, she wanted Jack and did catch him, by surprise in many ways!

That is one way, to me, that she is a lesbian, hiding it (maybe to herself) then, but likely not that long after or before her marriage to Jack, to him! May I go that far in thinking... maybe wishing ?

And, Lureen was obviously
sad of Jack's death, but was somewhat expecting it maybe - I'll say that too!

Au revoir,
hugs!

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