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TOTW 05/09: Things that made you go "hunh?"
bailey1205:
I agree Laura.
I wish they had put in more for the OS into the motel scene.
OS Ennis was definitely more vocal about his feelings for Jack.
Also, the OS "never enough time, never enough"
One of the guys I worked with said it was just a movie about two guys cheating on their wives.
I told him he needed to read the story.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on July 28, 2009, 03:10:30 pm ---You know one thing that bothers me... After Tent Scene 2, you have:
Tussle scene
Aguirre/pneumonia
Hailstorm
Untangle them sheep/harmonica playing
Then the summer ends. For a lot of viewers, it's just not going to add up to a significant romantic relationship. It just seems so brief.
Obviously, its significance is made clear later by the fact that they agonize over each other the rest of their lives. And the film is all about missed opportunity, I know — and Ang deliberately starves the viewers of the luxury of lingering romance, to help make the point that J + E were also starved of it.
But when some once-only viewers would post on IMDB saying crap like, "Well, it just didn't seem like that big a deal" ::) I can kind of understand why they'd think that, even if I don't agree.
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Good observation, Laura! :)
SFEnnisSF:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on July 28, 2009, 02:47:28 pm ---Do you mean when they talk about gay sex, or about sex in general? Because slang terms and vagaries are used all the time about straight sex, too. (I wonder if it's American puritanism, or if it's also common in other countries.) Like, it's never "are you having sex with her?" It's "does she put out?" or some such thing. (Or in Ennis's case, "It's normal and all?")
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I was meanin' when they specifically bring up the gay sex.
SFEnnisSF:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on July 28, 2009, 03:10:30 pm ---You know one thing that bothers me... After Tent Scene 2, you have:
Tussle scene
Aguirre/pneumonia
Hailstorm
Untangle them sheep/harmonica playing
Then the summer ends. For a lot of viewers, it's just not going to add up to a significant romantic relationship. It just seems so brief.
Obviously, its significance is made clear later by the fact that they agonize over each other the rest of their lives. And the film is all about missed opportunity, I know — and Ang deliberately starves the viewers of the luxury of lingering romance, to help make the point that J + E were also starved of it.
But when some once-only viewers would post on IMDB saying crap like, "Well, it just didn't seem like that big a deal" ::) I can kind of understand why they'd think that, even if I don't agree.
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Ten times what you say here!! Even if we had even gotten 15 more seconds of intimacy between the two of them it would have helped tremendously. In fact, this was one of the things that I struggled with the most with this movie. Maybe that's how come I ended up here...
mariez:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on July 28, 2009, 03:10:30 pm ---You know one thing that bothers me... After Tent Scene 2, you have:
Tussle scene
Aguirre/pneumonia
Hailstorm
Untangle them sheep/harmonica playing
Then the summer ends. For a lot of viewers, it's just not going to add up to a significant romantic relationship. It just seems so brief.
Obviously, its significance is made clear later by the fact that they agonize over each other the rest of their lives. And the film is all about missed opportunity, I know — and Ang deliberately starves the viewers of the luxury of lingering romance, to help make the point that J + E were also starved of it.
But when some once-only viewers would post on IMDB saying crap like, "Well, it just didn't seem like that big a deal" ::) I can kind of understand why they'd think that, even if I don't agree.
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I have to chime in. This is so true. In trying to convey to the audience that same sense of longing, that same sense of "never enough" that J&E felt, he may have overdone it a bit. I read the short story first, so I came to the movie knowing it was a true love story, but many viewers were watching the movie "cold" so to speak.
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