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The mysterious "I love you" and other nearly indiscernible moments
Penthesilea:
Thanks, 2robots. I was searching for it, too, but like Lee couldn't find it.
I quote it here, for easier access:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on July 06, 2006, 06:14:23 pm ---I hear the radio during Ennis's packing almost the same, Barbara, but not quite:
"...This great big guy...big, hairy, monstrous guy - must have been a construction worker all his life. And he's sitting at the bar next to this little bitty fellah...and the bartender... (dialogue)...and he grabs this <something>...and he just slips <something>...
"How did you do that? And the little guy replies (soft, wussy voice, kind of like Wally Cox), "Well, Sir....."
So, as I like to point out - I think this is a "faggot" joke. The construction worker represents the red-blooded American male, and the little bitty guy represents a "queer." What Ennis and Jack have to listen to subliminally.
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Front-Ranger:
Thanks for unburying this. As I recall, when Alma is washing laundry in the sink, the white male radio announcer is saying something like "When you go to the store, what do you put in your shopping cart..." and when Jack jumps out of the truck at the beginning of the post-divorce scene, the white male announcer says something about Little Richard and the words, "Went nuts for it." I haven't been able to make out what is said in the background of the first bar scene at all. The initial reaction that I get to all the subliminal radio effects is that it adds to the sexual tension of the scenes. Particularly when added to the beating of Alma's washboard in the sink.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on November 01, 2006, 01:15:13 pm ---Particularly when added to the beating of Alma's washboard in the sink.
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You noticed that too, hunh? You hear the pounding before you see Alma at the sink. The first time I saw the movie, I heard that and thought we were about to see Ennis and Alma. Yet another thing I bet is no coincidence.
Brown Eyes:
bump
;D
Front-Ranger:
Another one. During TS1, when Jack and Ennis first straighten up. Ennis murmurs something drunkenly. Now, somebody is suggesting he's saying "What are we doin?" Anybody else hear that?
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