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Toy horse and rodeo rider
starboardlight:
the wooden horse that Adrian brought to the Castro didn't look like balsa. I didn't touch the piece, because like Barb, I had butter on my hands. but from seeing it, it's a harder wood, though light in color like balsa.
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: starboardlight on June 19, 2006, 06:18:16 pm ---the wooden horse that Adrian brought to the Castro didn't look like balsa. I didn't touch the piece, because like Barb, I had butter on my hands. but from seeing it, it's a harder wood, though light in color like balsa.
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--- Quote from: gattaca on June 19, 2006, 05:30:44 pm ---The horse appears to be made of balsawood. But, unless Ennis brought some up the mountain in his paper bag, there's nowhere in Wyoming where it is a native tree (I think). But realistically, it is a film prop, and it could be any kind of wood - I don't think it's metal - you couldn't carve metal with a bowie knife.
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Does this then mean that the two of you might support my theory that Ennis may have carved that little horse for Jack? I suggested this on IMDb a couple of times and caught seven kinds of hell for it!
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They show Ennis carving a little horse when he is sitting in the tent, and then later, at the end of the movie there is a little horse sitting on Jack's dresser. The horse on Jack's dresser did have a cowboy on it, and the horse Ennis was carving didn't, but this doesn't mean Ennis couldn't have carved another toy for Jack later on. Or perhaps carved a little cowboy and then glued it on the horse he was carving in the tent. Anything is possible. But Ennis RECOGNIZED the horse on Jack's dresser. At least that is what it looked like to me!! I think he carved it. :)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: David925 on June 19, 2006, 10:40:45 pm ---Does this then mean that the two of you might support my theory that Ennis may have carved that little horse for Jack? I suggested this on IMDb a couple of times and caught seven kinds of hell for it!
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David, I would never give you even one kind of hell for it. But I'll have to say that the one in Jack's room looks pretty intricate, and Ennis didn't appear to be THAT good a carver. Still, I support the right of any viewer to interpret any ambiguous thing any way they like!
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on June 19, 2006, 10:49:48 pm ---David, I would never give you even one kind of hell for it. But I'll have to say that the one in Jack's room looks pretty intricate, and Ennis didn't appear to be THAT good a carver. Still, I support the right of any viewer to interpret any ambiguous thing any way they like!
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I was always willing to admit I could be wrong. Like you said, it is ambiguous. And probably, I am wrong. It sure is a nice thought though. So, I guess I will keep on thinking it. :)
gattaca:
Here is what I think (I have no hard evidence, it is just a gut feeling).
I think Ennis was carving the horse in the tent as a way to pass the time (what I would have done) - and then quite possibly have given it to Jack some time after it was done, but did not make it with Jack in mind, at least not at first.
I think the horse and rider that Ennis focused on in Jack's boyhood room in Lightning Flat was a potent reminder of that earlier time - associative memories are very powerful and would certainly have brought tears since Ennis had strong feelings for Jack which included horses and mountains and their long-ago time together.
:)
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