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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 09, 2007, 09:37:51 am ---Oh, for heaven's sake, Katherine, where do you want it to be? Growing in Ennis's living room? :laugh:
I figured you'd be the one to disagree, Little Darlin'. ;D
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Surely you're not implying that I'm ... argumentative ?!! :laugh:
Well, I'm just sayin, I think the fact that the grass (or corn, or soybeans, or whatever the heck it is) that looks all green and healthy and natural and alive is outside the window, while Ennis himself is closed up inside -- considering the outside/inside distinction and the looking-through-windows symbolism that run throughout the film -- is significant. If the last shot were of Ennis outdoors in nature, it would have a different effect.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on February 09, 2007, 11:30:38 am ---Surely you're not implying that I'm ... argumentative ?!! :laugh:
Well, I'm just sayin, I think the fact that the grass (or corn, or soybeans, or whatever the heck it is) that looks all green and healthy and natural and alive is outside the window, while Ennis himself is closed up inside -- considering the outside/inside distinction and the looking-through-windows symbolism that run throughout the film -- is significant. If the last shot were of Ennis outdoors in nature, it would have a different effect.
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Yes, and did you notice the placement of the different elements, Jeff and Katherine: the brown dirt is on the bottom, the green corn (or whatever) in the middle, and the blue sky on top--on top, Jeff! Why do you think the director had the location manager arrange them that way?? :laugh:
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 09, 2007, 11:55:36 am ---Yes, and did you notice the placement of the different elements, Jeff and Katherine: the brown dirt is on the bottom, the green corn (or whatever) in the middle, and the blue sky on top--on top, Jeff! Why do you think the director had the location manager arrange them that way?? :laugh:
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Ang Lee is talented and powerful, but even he can't turn the world upside down. I think. ... ;D
But do they grow maize in Wyoming?
I think whatever it is, it's too tall for soybeans. ;D
nakymaton:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 09, 2007, 02:37:38 pm ---But do they grow maize in Wyoming?
I think whatever it is, it's too tall for soybeans. ;D
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I believe that they grow wheat (and grass for hay) in the high plains (like Wyoming) -- there's a line around 100 W longitude where it gets awfully dry for growing corn. (Though I know that corn is a stable of the traditional diet of various Southwest Indian tribes. From what I've seen of places like Mesa Verde, though, the corn was grown in small, highly irrigated fields. I think.)
Ranching (lots of land + grazing animals, especially cows) is more common than farming (crops, with smaller economically viable plots of land) in eastern Wyoming. I think.
The green stuff outside Ennis's window looks like a hay field to me.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: nakymaton on February 09, 2007, 03:40:45 pm ---I believe that they grow wheat (and grass for hay) in the high plains (like Wyoming) -- there's a line around 100 W longitude where it gets awfully dry for growing corn. (Though I know that corn is a stable of the traditional diet of various Southwest Indian tribes. From what I've seen of places like Mesa Verde, though, the corn was grown in small, highly irrigated fields. I think.)
Ranching (lots of land + grazing animals, especially cows) is more common than farming (crops, with smaller economically viable plots of land) in eastern Wyoming. I think.
The green stuff outside Ennis's window looks like a hay field to me.
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Now that you mention it, Mel, I have this vague memory from American History that west of the Hundredth Meridian was once considered "The Great American Desert," that is, you couldn't farm west of that line? Does that sound familiar?
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