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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: nakymaton on August 15, 2006, 09:33:36 pm ---"You been to Mexico, Jack Twist?"
"Hell yes, I've been to Mexico. Where the hell do you think that weed came from?"
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:laugh:
"Thank god! I thought you went for ... well, never mind."
vkm91941:
Well for another view point let me share this. My oldest brother was born in December of 1943 and was 19 years old in the summer of 1963 just like Ennis and Jack. He did not go to Vietnam, he was rejected by the draft board even though he was in ROTC because of a severe Knee injury that required multiple surgeries...so he got married and went to community college instead, then on to UCLA 3 years later. Pot was not a part of his & his wife's life in those early days but by the time he was established in his career in his 30's it was very much a part of recreation with their adult friends. Now that they are in their 60's it is once again no longer part of their life or at least so he tells me. So seeing Jack and Ennis light up seemed perfectly consistent with the times for me.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Victoria on August 16, 2006, 04:54:46 pm --- Pot was not a part of his & his wife's life in those early days but by the time he was established in his career in his 30's it was very much a part of recreation with their adult friends. Now that they are in their 60's it is once again no longer part of their life or at least so he tells me. So seeing Jack and Ennis light up seemed perfectly consistent with the times for me.
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What were his friends and community like? For me, what seemed unrealistic was the combination of their age and their conservative small-town millieu. But I would be glad to be wrong. If it's not unusual, I would feel better about the scene.
vkm91941:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on August 16, 2006, 05:24:38 pm ---What were his friends and community like? For me, what seemed unrealistic was the combination of their age and their conservative small-town millieu. But I would be glad to be wrong. If it's not unusual, I would feel better about the scene.
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Well we did and do all live in California after all and not rural Wyoming. They have always lived in a small rural town about 60 miles from the San Diego City Limits. But they are college educated, white collar professionals in a liberal state so I can see the point that this alone would make a difference. But Jack was not the Wyoming farm boy anymore. He had been on the rodeo circuit and it's not a stretch to think that once married he was exposed to Lureen's college friends as well. That combined with the money and the lifesytle it could afford would have increased Jack's sophistication and life experience ten fold past Ennis's. I can still totally see Jack introducing Ennis to the joys of pot smoking. If ever a guy was in need of mellowing out it was Ennis Del Mar ;) and no one knew that better than Jack.
Sheriff Roland:
--- Quote from: Victoria on August 16, 2006, 05:34:02 pm ---
Well we did and do all live in California after all and not rural Wyoming. They have always lived in a small rural town about 60 miles from the San Diego City Limits. But they are college educated, white collar professionals in a liberal state so I can see the point that this alone would make a difference. But Jack was not the Wyoming farm boy anymore. He had been on the rodeo circuit and it's not a stretch to think that once married he was exposed to Lureen's college friends as well. That combined with the money and the lifesytle it could afford would have increased Jack's sophistication and life experience ten fold past Ennis's. I can still totally see Jack introducing Ennis to the joys of pot smoking. If ever a guy was in need of mellowing out it was Ennis Del Mar ;) and no one knew that better than Jack.
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And le's not forget the aformentioned Mexico trip(s) - accapulco gold and all! - Mexico was a major supplier of "good stuff" when I was growing up - in the late 60's & 70's
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