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Double meanings: Lines that can be taken more than one way
Front-Ranger:
In my last viewing of the movie (which was over a month ago, and I'm steamed about that!) I was struck by the wording in the divorce court. It starts just before that scene and goes like this:
--- Quote ---ALMA
As far behind as we are on the bills, it makes me
nervous not to take no precaution....
ENNIS looks her in the face.
ENNIS
(stiffens)
If you don't want no more of my kids, I'll be happy
to leave you alone.
ALMA
(under her breath)
...I'd have 'em, if you'd support 'em....
ENNIS rolls off her. ALMA rolls on her side with her back to ENNIS, and with a look of despair on her face reaches
up and turns off the bedside lamp. WE HEAR:
JUDGE
(voice over)
...Custody of the two minor children…
117. INT: WYOMING COURTHOUSE: DAY: NOVEMBER 6: 1975
ENNIS and ALMA in a bleak little courtroom: divorce court. Grim. ALMA looks sad, but determined...cries quietly.
ENNIS looks miserable.
JUDGE (CONT’D)
…Alma Del Mar Jr. and Jennifer del Mar, is awarded
to plaintiff. Defendant is ordered to pay child
support to the plaintiff in the sum of $125 per
month, for each of the minor children until they
reach the age of 18 years...
(raises gavel)
...Del Mar divorce granted, this 6th day of
November 1975.
--- End quote ---
...So Ennis ended up supporting his children, but at the will of Alma. The prevalence of the words take, have, custody, must have hit Ennis like a bear trap around his leg!
Front-Ranger:
This passage from the story also plays into the "take" and "leave" discussion:
...and showed it was all right by taking Thanksgiving dinner with Alma, her grocer, and the kids.
Brown Eyes:
More essential BBM reading...
Brown Eyes:
Just bumping a classic... how did this one fall so far down the page list!
:o
Next time I post here I'll post an actual "double meaning." I promise. ;)
squashcourt:
Hi,
What's your opinion or take on this:
Ennis to Jack: "You may be a sinner but I ain't had the the opportunity yet ..."
Remember thuis scene when both were 4 sheets to the wind after killing that bottle of whiksey (I think it was Old Turkey bourbon)...
Was this an invitation from Ennis to you know what?
You know, my feeling is that it is Ennis who first fell in love with Jack. Ennis's body language from the scene when he was washing the pots and pan in the running stream and looking at Jack up on the Mountain with an anxious and apprehensive forbidding feeling about Jack.
Pierre - ;)
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