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TOTW 15/08: Confetti Quiz
southendmd:
--- Quote from: broketrash on April 29, 2008, 11:50:37 am ---what is a jackelope? I called up some pics of a Big Horn lamb and it sure looks like the trophy on Aguirre's wall.
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I could have sworn it was a jackalope, common to Colorado and Wyoming.
The Western Jackalope
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackalope
southendmd:
Finally! I found the screen cap:
Could be a bighorn lamb, after all. I guess Aguirre wouldn't have a sense of humor, hunh?
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: southendmd on April 29, 2008, 11:58:46 am ---I could have sworn it was a jackalope, common to Colorado and Wyoming.
The Western Jackalope
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackalope
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ok, I thought you were being serious about the "jackalope" animal. I fell for the joke. :laugh:
But, all kidding aside, I think the trophy really is a Big Horn lamb head.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: broketrash on April 29, 2008, 11:43:22 am ---wow, that went over my head. I'm curious, how do "ashes" connect Aguirre, the Jack/Ennis "wedding" scene and the story. There is a line in the ss about his hair being the color of cigarette ashes, but I suspect that you are making a deeper point here. :)
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We haven't really delved into it. I was hoping we'd get around to talking about ashes on the "Smokes and Fire" thread, but not yet. We did start to discuss the hair here:
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,3130.msg360431.html#msg360431
Paull, maybe BOTH heads are on the wall...I would have sworn I saw a jackelope too!
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on April 29, 2008, 01:40:29 pm ---We haven't really delved into it. I was hoping we'd get around to talking about ashes on the "Smokes and Fire" thread, but not yet. We did start to discuss the hair here:
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,3130.msg360431.html#msg360431
Paull, maybe BOTH heads are on the wall...I would have sworn I saw a jackelope too!
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very interesting discussion on that thread. I looked at it, but to be honest nothing leapt out at me about the cigarette ashes or his gray hair. I may have missed something as there are really interesting comments. I liked the comments about the what I see as the "film noir" elements of light and shadow, venetian blinds, Ennis into the light and Jack into the dark. very clever! I love film noir, I even put up a thumbnail of "Double Indemnity" on my profile.
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