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Ennis & Alma's wedding scene

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Brown Eyes:
The wedding scene between Ennis and Alma is certainly complex and loaded with meaning.  Yet, I don't recall many threads that focus on analyzing this scene in great depth.

So this thread can be a place to discuss everything from the interesting Jolly Minister voice-over transition from Ennis crying in the alley to the wedding scene to details of costumes and extras in the scene.  Who are all these people in the church?  Who's the old guy to the far left on Ennis's side of the church?  Etc.

In another thread here in Open Forum it was observed that Ennis and his best man (presumably K.E... maybe) seem to be sharing one suit.  Ennis wearing the jacket and the best man wearing the pants.

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This level of detail in the scene suggests, that like everything else in BBM, this scene was very carefully crafted.

One thing that I'd like to observe is that there is a man with dark hair seated in the audience behind Ennis's head and in between Ennis and Jack in this photo above... his dark hair is very reminiscent of Jack's hair.  On close inspection the man doesn't look that much like Jack except for the hair.  So, I wonder if this is a variation on the theme of men with black hats haunting Ennis throughout the film.  This man with the dark hair reminds me of this guy...

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from just the previous scene.  The guy who encounters Ennis in the alley, I think, makes almost all first time BBM watchers think of Jack for a split second before they realize that this is a stranger and not Jack coming back to find Ennis.



Maybe this extra in the pew with dark hair is like a little visual cue to the viewer of the movie that Jack (as always) is weighing heavy on Ennis here at this critical moment.

serious crayons:
Alma's maid/matron of honor is oddly dressed, isn't she? Was it really cold in the church?

The best man looks, in a really generic way, quite a bit like Ennis, and the m. of honor looks generically quite a bit like Alma. That makes me think the characters represent the couple's siblings. But it also made me wonder if they were played by the people who served as stand-ins for Heath and Michelle.


 

LauraGigs:
I'll bet you're right about the stand-in thing, Katherine.  IMDB probably would have all the credits...

Anyway, yeah - it's interesting that the dark-haired guy is right between Ennis + Alma in the shot!

Artiste:
Why so many persons as an audience at their wedding ?

Katie77:
I would think that most of the relatives at the wedding are Alma's. The matron of honour is probably her sister and the best man is more than likely her husband. The old couple could be her grandparents. The man standing directly behind the matron of honour has a flower in his lapel which means which means he is probably Alma's father.

We know that Alma's sister lives in the town, from when Alma tells Ennis in the store, that she will get her sister to look after the girls, so its more than likely that this is Alma's home town, and all of her family live there. The crowd there seem typical of what would be a small wedding with relatives and a few close friends.

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