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Comparison between '03 to '05 screenplay: would we still be discussing this film
serious crayons:
OK, I just reposted. And when I went over it again, I made it much shorter without really taking out anything substantive. Jeff, I need an editor. :-\
Front-Ranger:
I noticed U didn't talk about the screenplay, but I assumed we had evolved away from that discussion, like we usually do!! :D
serious crayons:
Sometimes I think all our conversations could be in one big gigantic thread! :laugh:
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on September 29, 2006, 03:02:25 pm ---OK, I just reposted. And when I went over it again, I made it much shorter without really taking out anything substantive. Jeff, I need an editor. :-\
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Sometimes we all do, little darlin'. :D
And these conversations tend to be organic anyway. :)
nakymaton:
I think story-Ennis had at least as traumatic of a childhood, at least from the events that we hear about, as movie-Ennis. Both were forced to see Earl's dead and mutilated body, and both thought their father may have been responsible. And as Front-Ranger pointed out, story-Ennis also was taught violence by being told to punch his older brother to solve the bullying problem. (Movie-Ennis, on the other hand, says his brother and sister "did the best they could.")
But given how little movie-Ennis says about anything, it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't have the same traumatic childhood, but is less willing to talk about it.
I wonder if movie-Ennis was simply a more sensitive child in general? That sounds weird, I guess. But you know how Heath described Ennis as being very sensitive to light, to sounds, to everything? Well, the tiny amount of reading I did in child-raising books (before I threw them on the floor and went to chase my own child...) told me that even kids who can't speak yet respond to people in totally different ways. (Like some kids break into tears when somebody tells them "no," and others -- mine, for instance -- just keep on going as if they didn't hear you, no matter how angry or upset you sound.) So I'm wondering if story-Ennis simply dealt the abuse in a different way -- by burying some of his emotions, for instance -- whereas movie-Ennis pulled away from people and withdrew completely?
(That is SO pop-psychology. Sorry, everyone!)
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