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Bookends!
Front-Ranger:
I didn't get to participate in this fun and insightful game on imdb, as described by Katherine:
--- Quote ---I'd just been participating in an extremely long bookends thread on imdb. There are some incredibly subtle ones on there -- a few that I'll have to say seemed like kind of a stretch, but many that were pretty amazing.
I'll just throw one out, to whet your appetites, and also to brag that I guessed the correct answer to this bookend challenge that Casey Cornelius posed (the imdb thread is in the form of a game). :D
Some of what people called bookends were later deemed mirrors. When something happens in two different scenes -- such as Jack putting Ennis hand on his erection and then Alma putting Ennis' hand on her pregnant stomach -- they are mirrors, they decided, unless the second scene provides a sense of closure, as the truck and paper bags scenes do. But that's OK, people were throwing mirrors in there, too.
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So, I'm assuming one person suggests the first bookend, and the respondent names the other bookend, while starting a new bookend. And we can also include "mirrors" (which I would be more likely, in my English-lit-ish style to call a recurring motif).
Here's my first bookend: Ennis comes upon a bear and is thrown from his horse.
Front-Ranger:
Is it that Jack really does "die after all?"
I have a hard time thinking straight about Uncle Hal, er Harold, because I've dreamed up such an elaborate story about him, which has no basis in the movie or story!
I'll wait to post another bookend until I find out if mine is right.
serious crayons:
--- Quote ---Bookend: Uncle Harold has pneumonia.
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I always think of the bookend of this scene as being the divorce scene, because there are similar elements: the contact from someone far away that leads to a journey, the "Here I am," the gaze to a distant person that Jack follows, gradually comprehending.
But Uncle Harold's pneumonia is such a mysterious and complex augury! So I'll look forward, Barbara, to seeing what you have in mind.
Meanwhile, I'm throwin one in that I noticed yesterday. It might be more of a mirror, though.
Mirror: Ennis packs up his horse for his first night on the mountain, Jack warns him he won't get any sleep.
nakymaton:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on September 23, 2006, 01:01:59 pm ---Mirror: Ennis packs up his horse for his first night on the mountain, Jack warns him he won't get any sleep.
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Ennis stays in camp and doesn't get much sleep there either? ;D
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: nakymaton on September 23, 2006, 02:22:33 pm ---Ennis stays in camp and doesn't get much sleep there either? ;D
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That's what I had in mind! ;D (And in both, he packs up the horse and wordlessly rides away while Jack stands there.)
--- Quote ---Scene: In the bar, Jack asks Ennis, “Do you ever rodeo?” Ennis responds, “Once in a while.”
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Is it, Scene: In the bar, the bartender asks Jack, "Ever try calf roping?" Jack responds, "Do I look like I could afford a f'in ropin horse?"
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