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Ang Lee and the POM synergy
Front-Ranger:
Not off topic at all! Just the thing I had in mind. Thanks, Mikaela.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 28, 2006, 03:07:38 pm ---There's a big trash bucket outside the door of Ennis's trailer in the last scene, and there's a big fan on his bed. Those are both visual code for Jack. Especially having the fan on the bed harks back to Proulx's line about Ennis waking up after dreaming about Jack and "sometimes the pillow was wet, sometimes the sheets."
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Also a coffee pot on the stove. But the huge fan on the bed is my favorite.
OK, speaking of the sheets, here's one that's kind of funny and I know from previous attempts to defend it is controversial: I think that when Ennis reads Jack's first postcard and then bolts from the kitchen and strides toward the back of the house, it implicitly illustrates the line, "I sure wrang it out a hundred times thinking about you."
Front-Ranger:
I'm with U lat! The director has to set us up for that reunion kiss which would normally be slightly out-of-character for Ennis!! ;D
Front-Ranger:
Help me remember, Katherine. I think ruthlessly pointed out that there were three sets of knives on the counter in Ennis's trailer. Is that true??
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 29, 2006, 03:31:46 pm ---Help me remember, Katherine. I think ruthlessly pointed out that there were three sets of knives on the counter in Ennis's trailer. Is that true??
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Yes, I believe I do remember ruthlessly saying that. But I don't recall what they were supposed to mean (if I ever understood in the first place). Do you?
I haven't seen all those knives, myself. It would seem odd to me to find three sets of knives in an underfurnished trailer. I think ruthlessly counted more than one coffee pot, too? But I haven't seen the movie even one tenth as many times as ruthlessly had, so I'll defer.
I do think there is more than one fan. Am I right?
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