TOTW 25/08: The Motel Scene

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TOTW 25/08: The Motel Scene - story only

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Front-Ranger:

--- Quote from: shortfiction on September 19, 2008, 08:45:16 pm ---I can see why the screenwriters left out quite a bit of the motel scene; it would have been a bit too long and perhaps too talky for a films. I still wish they had left in some bits of it, though.

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Well, I think Ang could have done it. After all, he did Sense and Senseability, which is Austen, which is mostly talking. But, those characters weren't naked. So if he had done the motel scene as Proulx wrote it, who would be able to pay much attention to what they were saying?!?!?

BlissC:

--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on September 20, 2008, 12:20:30 pm ---Well, I think Ang could have done it. After all, he did Sense and Senseability, which is Austen, which is mostly talking. But, those characters weren't naked. So if he had done the motel scene as Proulx wrote it, who would be able to pay much attention to what they were saying?!?!?

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LOL!!! Good point! ;D

Hmmm...some interesting ideas, and an awful lot to get our teeth into - 4 pages of a 28 page story is quite a sizeable chunk! I'll have to re-read that scene again tomorrow to remind myself of it (I was reading the "Missing Motel Moments" fanfic again yesterday so that's stuck in my head at the moment, and I have a have a tendency to blur the Missing Motel Moments/Pine Creek/Warmest Week of the Year trilogy in with the original SS because they fit in so well with the story).

Hmmmm...motel scene. Happy thought to end the day on. :)

BlissC:

--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on September 19, 2008, 11:48:53 pm ---Well, they did, didn't they? I think the picture of Jake smiling into Heath's ear is one of my favorites.

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Mine too. :)

optom3:
I have just been talking of this earlier with Mandy,and I think we decided that Lee possibly thought he had shown about as much sex and intimacy as the American public could watch.

The motel scene in the S.S is full of references to sex,the smell of it etc.What would have been a bit special would have been if more intimate scenes had been filmed, and put together in a special edition DVD that some of us with more open minds would have lapped up.

I also wonder if that is the reason that some of the motel chat is moved to the scene by the campfire,where they are both fully clothed.

I miss seeing some of the post sex talk in the motel scene,it is so natural after sex to lie together,smoke if you do and discuss where and or how things might progress.That is in no way a criticism of the film which will always be my favourite.I think lee had an extraorinarily difficult task,to convey the main themes of the s.s in a way that would be palatable to the greatest number of people.

What I realy miss is when Ennis says "i hate it that you're goin a drive away in the mornin and I'M going back to work" The whole reunion and motel scene in the s.s show us a much more tender Ennis than the film.Yet again though,Lee may have been trying to miss out some elements that many viewers would have found difficult.

I find it very interesting that Ennis says he is goin back to work,rather than going back to Alma.That one sentence conveys such a lot.Whether Ennis realises it or not, he is already linking Jack with love and his personal life, as opposed to his working life.It would be more usual when playing away from home to say,i hate that I am going to have to go back to a,b or c, not work.

Ennis is starting to very definitely pigeon hole aspects of his life.

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