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serious crayons:

--- Quote from: atz75 on February 09, 2008, 07:31:30 pm ---  I guess this scenario helps illustrate the relentless loop that Ennis might feel he's caught in with regard to his mindset and his perception of his life's circumstance (in very broad terms).
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Yes, that's a good way to put it. In having sex with/living with Jack, he endangered sheep/Jack.


--- Quote --- Jack complains that it's unfair of Aguirre to require the use of the pup tent from the beginning.  And, I don't think the job-switch was the solution he was hoping for... it seems that from the very earliest moments on BBM he was hoping that Ennis would live with him in camp
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It's interesting to notice that Aguirre forces them to live apart. Especially when you think of Aguirre as the eyes of society (binoculars) and the God who performs the marriage service, but also presides over the Brokeback Garden of Eden. It's another one of those ambiguous, multi-faceted BBM metaphors.

A brief comment on the parallel between Ennis fixing Jack's truck in Signal and helping pack it up at the lake: I've always felt that there was simply to round out the "mirror" that exists between the two scenes: they argue, they say goodbye at Jack's truck, Jack says he's going to visit his folks, Ennis collapses, etc. But extending it to connect to Jack and the tire iron/explosion enriches the connection still further, I guess.

Also, regarding the slaughtered sheep. Others have mentioned that Alma's outfit on the day of the reunion matches the colors of the sheep: red on the inside covered by white. Usually this is mentioned as foreshadowing "doom" -- i.e., the end of the marriage -- for Alma. But really, it makes more sense to think of it as foreshadowing Jack's doom. Immediately after the tent scene, we see the sheep; now, immediately after the reunion scene, we see that color combination again -- and again, on someone to whom Ennis has shirked his "responsibility" and "neglected." In that sense, she foreshadows Jack's doom more than her own.

In that context, too, I wonder if Lureen's red-and-white outfit takes on a more foreshadowing meaning? Perhaps not, though, because in her case it isn't a sign of Ennis' "neglect."

Front-Ranger:
There's also the concept that Jack was supposedly killed when he was "pumping up a flat" being as how he was the man from Lightning Flat, who played a harmonica that was flattened when that mare threw him. He was dodging flats all his life until, one day, "she got lucky."

Great topic, Amanda! I'm sure we can go far on this thread, since there is so much foreshadowing in both the story and movie.

Brown Eyes:

--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 11, 2008, 04:48:29 pm ---There's also the concept that Jack was supposedly killed when he was "pumping up a flat" being as how he was the man from Lightning Flat, who played a harmonica that was flattened when that mare threw him. He was dodging flats all his life until, one day, "she got lucky."

Great topic, Amanda! I'm sure we can go far on this thread, since there is so much foreshadowing in both the story and movie.



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Thanks Sister-Mod.... Didn't you post a picture somewhere here in Open Forum once showing Jack and Ennis around the fire pit on Brokeback surrounded by utensils and tools that seemed to have significant meaning, maybe in terms of foreshadowing.  I remember a lot of the metal tools were sort of aimed at Jack... do you still have that picture somewhere?

brokeplex:
did anyone else notice the axe handle that visually connects with Jack's head during the scene where the boys talk about rodeo around the campfire?

in fact I remember several times while the boys were sitting around the campfire that axe handle keeps visually connecting with Jack. also during the campfire scenes, there are angles that allow the end of the campfire stand looks like a tire iron.

Artiste:
Interesting!

Interesting!

In a sense, I wonder now why the BM movie does not foreshadow St-Valentine or used that??

There are two Thanksgiving scenes, but no St-Valentine scene in the BM movie, why??

Would that have killed the foreshadowings in the BM movie??

Hugs!!

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