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Penthesilea:

--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on June 18, 2006, 04:19:27 pm ---Why are we like this? Well, this message board is fuel for our passions, and keeps them burning brightly. That's why we are like this! IMHO anyway.

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I think Front-Ranger has a very interesting theory here. Yes, BM (and other boards) is fuel to our passions. It's a kind of mutual enhancement: the board fuels our passion and we (with our passion) fuel this board.


I asked on another thread, what we/I would have done without this possibility of exchange with others.

I think I would have felt like a weirdo if I had the impression, I'm the only person in the world who was affected by this movie so much that I can't stop thinking about it.
But would this obsession have lasted three months? Or would I have given up after several weeks, moved on and would have forgotten about this movie?

My friend and only fellow Brokie I know in person can't speak English. So she has no access to message boards (no German boards). However, she is still as infected by Brokeback fever as I am. Tomorrow it will be exactly three months that we saw it first. And although we assured each other that our third viewing in theatre would be our last, it was her who suggested to go to theatre for a forth time (I didn't dare). Four times might seem not much for some of you, but you have to add our multiple viewings on DVD. We both own the DVD and still go to cinema to see BBM.

Bottom line is: although I think Front-Ranger's theory is partly right, it cannot explain the phenomenon altogether. It cannot explain why it is this movie for us. And why other viewers are not as affected by it as we are. I was never interested in researching information about other movies on internet to this extend and I never had any interest to join a message board about a movie.
And there was definetly no other movie (or book for that matter) for me where the characters felt so real.

serious crayons:

--- Quote from: Penthesilea on June 20, 2006, 03:41:48 am ---I think I would have felt like a weirdo if I had the impression, I'm the only person in the world who was affected by this movie so much that I can't stop thinking about it.
But would this obsession have lasted three months? Or would I have given up after several weeks, moved on and would have forgotten about this movie?

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Happy three-month anniversary, Penth!

I agree with your points: 1) I would have gone crazy if I didn't have access to this board (and before that, imdb) to indicate there are others in the world who feel not just kind of like I do, but exactly like I do 2) it's possible that, without the board, which has become like a whole 'nother obsession in itself -- I would have returned to normal after, say, two months rather than still obsessed after five 3) that still doesn't really explain why I am obsessed with a movie in the first place.

Characters real? I just finished posting on another thread that there is a dimension of reality in which Jack and Ennis go about their lives, outside of what happened to be captured on film. And though I don't really believe this, at the same time I really kind of do! Sometimes, for example, I get into discussions here about characters' motivations or intentions that I think may go beyond what even Annie, Diana and Larry, Ang, Heath or Jake intended to indicate. So it's not like I'm wondering, "What did the fillmmakers mean to show when Ennis did such and such?" I'm wondering, "What did Ennis mean when he did such and such?"

Now that is something I can't remember ever doing with any other movie or even book.

ednbarby:

--- Quote from: latjoreme on June 20, 2006, 09:17:12 am ---Now that is something I can't remember ever doing with any other movie or even book.
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Me, neither.

(And I ain't jokin'.)

Brown Eyes:
Well, since Ang Lee went so far as to thank Jack and Ennis during his Oscar speech, it seems like at least he has some of the same feelings that we do about these characters sort of having a presence beyond the scope of the film (if that makes any sense). 

I don't think it's too wierd to extrapolate about characters and their motivations and what they might do in different circumstances.  But, I'm fixating on the idea of out-takes and random production stills, etc. in a way that I never did for any other movie.  Because those extra little things (like the bizarre extra footage that found its way into the trailer of all things) really do make it seem like Jack and Ennis were busy doing things that Ang wouldn't let us see!

wolf:

--- Quote from: atz75 on June 20, 2006, 07:47:17 pm ---those extra little things (like the bizarre extra footage that found its way into the trailer of all things) really do make it seem like Jack and Ennis were busy doing things that Ang wouldn't let us see!

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