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TOTW 15/08: Confetti Quiz
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: southendmd on April 29, 2008, 12:04:48 pm ---Finally! I found the screen cap:
Could be a bighorn lamb, after all. I guess Aguirre wouldn't have a sense of humor, hunh?
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I'm curious about the suggestion that this could be a creature called a "bighorn lamb" as pictured here. Why on earth would someone put the head of a lamb on their wall? It's not like it's a buck with huge antlers or something. To me it seems particularly sad to have such a small creature... a lamb even on one's wall. Is this the first reference to the "sacrificial" lamb that comes up again following TS1 and in the guise of Earl and Jack metaphorically?
So, it's been mentioned (brilliantly) in the past that Jack's Lightning Flat bedroom is a microcosm of the whole movie or at least of the Brokeback summer (the white sloping walls equate to the white sloping canvas of the tent, etc., etc.). Is it possible that Aguirre's office is also a microcosm of the movie? Is Aguirre's office the bookend/ mirror scene to Jack's Lightning Flat bedroom?
Sorry to go off-topic here.
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: atz75 on April 29, 2008, 09:28:23 pm ---I'm curious about the suggestion that this could be a creature called a "bighorn lamb" as pictured here. Why on earth would someone put the head of a lamb on their wall? It's not like it's a buck with huge antlers or something. To me it seems particularly sad to have such a small creature... a lamb even on one's wall. Is this the first reference to the "sacrificial" lamb that comes up again following TS1 and in the guise of Earl and Jack metaphorically?
So, it's been mentioned (brilliantly) in the past that Jack's Lightning Flat bedroom is a microcosm of the whole movie or at least of the Brokeback summer (the white sloping walls equate to the white sloping canvas of the tent, etc., etc.). Is it possible that Aguirre's office is also a microcosm of the movie? Is Aguirre's office the bookend/ mirror scene to Jack's Lightning Flat bedroom?
Sorry to go off-topic here.
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I'm delighted that you went off topic. When I saw what I believed to be the head of a lamb on the wall of Farm and Ranch Employment, I felt saddened and forwarned that Aguirre wouldn't be the sensitive type who had any sympathy for Jack and Ennis. It does make a statement to offer the head of a "baby" as a trophy.
Is Aguirre's office / parking lot a microcosm of the scope of the film? I don't know, but it is worth discussing on another thread.
Ellemeno:
Okay, good topic, but can we go back to the confetti quiz? (Should we split the Aguirre's trailer topic off for continued discussion?)
Q: What did Ennis and Jack do with the remains of the giant elk?
Penthesilea:
Friends, this is a Jackalope on Aguirre's wall. This is not a lamb, never in my life! It's a jackrabbit with assembled "horns". Jackalopes come in different sizes and shapes, just do a quick google image search.
This is the head of a rabbit, a mountain hare (Lepus timidus, sometimes also called arctic hare) to be exact.
I've enlarged the jackalope, therefore it's not very sharp. But have a look at the form of the head, at the muzzle - and don't forget the ears. White with a black tip, as the winter coat of a mountain hare is.
His right ear (left from us) hangs to the side of the head, the left ear is behind the left "horn".
And have a look at the "horns"; they're totally different from sheep horns.
A mountain hare to compare:
Hi Elle! Your post came in while I was typing. Sorry to be OT once more. Splitting the topic might be a good idea, I'll have a look later.
Ellemeno:
I'm enjoying the jackalope discussion, I just also am excited about the confetti quiz. :)
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