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Timeline for the film & story
jpwagoneer1964:
--- Quote from: dly64 on August 10, 2006, 10:47:22 pm ---Doug ... yep, my name is Diane. Just call me that ... way easier than "dly64" ...
Anyway, my assumption about Lureen and Jack meeting in 1966 is because we first see Alma and Ennis on the 4th of July, 1966. So, even if it says August, I can surmise that it would be 1966 ... meaning even fewer months to have an 8 month old! :-\
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I think in giving the stories of our boys lives the authers focused on one for a certian period and then backtracked time wise to the tell the other
Brown Eyes:
I think there are two "types" of timelines that cause issues in BBM. One type is just the sequence of years. Or the broad picture of what happened year by year. And the other type is a really specific calendar... day by day types of questions. I remember somewhere (I have no memory of where) there's a thread about phases of the moon on Brokeback so that we could try to figure out the timeline of what was going on specifically in the '63 summer. When was TS1? When did the happy tussle really happen? It was very, very detailed. These types of details would be helpful in terms of questions about Jack's marriage to Lureen and the birth of Bobby. I remember someone back on TOB (and occasionally re-stated here at BetterMost) suggested that she was already pregnant when she met Jack. Which somehow to me really seems plausible. Anyway, a precise timeline might help here a bit too.
nakymaton:
--- Quote from: atz75 on August 11, 2006, 07:47:58 pm ---And the other type is a really specific calendar... day by day types of questions. I remember somewhere (I have no memory of where) there's a thread about phases of the moon on Brokeback so that we could try to figure out the timeline of what was going on specifically in the '63 summer.
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Most people here assume that Ennis and Jack went into the mountains in May, and TS1 was the night of the full moon in June. That timeline drives me batty, personally, because I think there would have been too much snow up around treeline in May. So I came up with a timeline that made sense to me: http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2566.msg41239#msg41239
Mel
jpwagoneer1964:
--- Quote from: atz75 on August 11, 2006, 07:47:58 pm ---I think there are two "types" of timelines that cause issues in BBM. One type is just the sequence of years. Or the broad picture of what happend year by year. And the other type is a really specific calendar... day by day types of questions. I remember somewhere (I have no memory of where) there's a thread about phases of the moon on Brokeback so that we could try to figure out the timeline of what was going on specifically in the '63 summer. When was TS1? When did the happy tussle really happen? It was very, very detailed. These types of details would be helpful in terms of questions about Jack's marriage to Lureen and the birth of Bobby. I remember someone back on TOB (and occasionally re-stated here at BetterMost) suggested that she was already pregnant when she met Jack. Which somehow to me really seems plausible. Anyway, a precise timeline might help here a bit too.
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I think the happy tussle was 4-6 weeks after SNIT.
fernly:
--- Quote from: nakymaton on August 11, 2006, 10:15:12 pm ---Most people here assume that Ennis and Jack went into the mountains in May, and TS1 was the night of the full moon in June. That timeline drives me batty, personally, because I think there would have been too much snow up around treeline in May. So I came up with a timeline that made sense to me: http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2566.msg41239#msg41239
Mel
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Mel, somehow I missed that thread the first time around. Thank you for posting the link!
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