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Is Ennis in the shrt story more tender/loving than in the film?
Monika:
I listened to it just now and I hear "darling" but it´s hard to tell
btw for some reason I can´t even imagine movieEnnis calling Jack "little Darling".
LauraGigs:
He does say "darlin" and at the end of the day when he drops her off, he says "bye sweetheart".
Anyway, I think that there was an overall effort to make Jack + Ennis complement and contrast each other more for the film. Heath's hair was lightened and Jake's was darkened, the contrasting hat colors and wardrobe, etc.
^ That's the superficial visual level of course, but it was done on the character level too... Hence Ennis's greater introversion in the film. I agree that in the book, E + J are much closer together in their level of expressiveness. But Brokeback Mountain is all about hesitation and missed opportunity, and Ang Lee is all about restraint — so one character must be 'tamped down'. Ennis is the natural choice for this, as his Earl experience serves as the pivotal trauma which would logically shut down anyone's spirit.
karen1129:
Ennis in the SS was definitely more vocal about his feelings for jack.
Even the sex part.
optom3:
I find myself being drawn to both movie and s.s Ennis in different ways. When I first readthe s.s, which I did before seeing the film, I just sobbed. The sentence right at the very end of the s.s. where it says, "he would awake sometimes in grief, sometimes with the old sense of joy and release, the pillow sometimes wet, sometimes the sheets.
That sentence has me in pieces, it is so unbearably sad. Also the sentence "the huge sadness of the northern planes rolled down on him" In each case so few words, so much pathos.
It makes me cry all over again. Ennis is completely thrown by the postcard he receives with deceased stamped on it, he tries to convince himself it is a mistake, he will ring Jack and he will answer the phone and everything will be fine. Only it isn't.
Yet again I find Ennis of the story more tender. It is not that movie Ennis is not tender, he is,but in different ways. I am drawn into the film pretty early on, by the shuffling Ennis outside Aguirre's office. I am completely bowled over by him in TS2. So maybe I have just argued myself full circle !!!
The movie Ennis is more one of gestures and little subtelties. The s.s Ennis is more verbal. When I think about it sensible, those differences are largely due to the different media.
Certainly both have the same effect on me. A sobbing, emotional wreck. I feel as if I have been put through a mangle several times over.
loneleeb3:
--- Quote from: optom3 on January 12, 2009, 02:24:10 pm ---I find myself being drawn to both movie and s.s Ennis in different ways. When I first readthe s.s, which I did before seeing the film, I just sobbed. The sentence right at the very end of the s.s. where it says, "he would awake sometimes in grief, sometimes with the old sense of joy and release, the pillow sometimes wet, sometimes the sheets.
That sentence has me in pieces, it is so unbearably sad. Also the sentence "the huge sadness of the northern planes rolled down on him" In each case so few words, so much pathos.
It makes me cry all over again. Ennis is completely thrown by the postcard he receives with deceased stamped on it, he tries to convince himself it is a mistake, he will ring Jack and he will answer the phone and everything will be fine. Only it isn't.
Yet again I find Ennis of the story more tender. It is not that movie Ennis is not tender, he is,but in different ways. I am drawn into the film pretty early on, by the shuffling Ennis outside Aguirre's office. I am completely bowled over by him in TS2. So maybe I have just argued myself full circle !!!
The movie Ennis is more one of gestures and little subtelties. The s.s Ennis is more verbal. When I think about it sensible, those differences are largely due to the different media.
Certainly both have the same effect on me. A sobbing, emotional wreck. I feel as if I have been put through a mangle several times over.
--- End quote ---
Im the same way Fiona!
They both have an effect on me.
However, I am glad I saw the movie first. I could more easily identify with the onscreen Ennis and that is why it hiit me as hard as it did.
I don't know, maybe the SS would have. We'll never know because I read that after seeing the movie.
Anyhow, the movie is how me got here........
Thank you Ennis...
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