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Bookends!
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Daniel on September 24, 2006, 11:07:40 pm ---Maybe when he has a can on top of him and he's trying to open it.
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I was thinking more along the lines of when he has Lureen on top of him in the back seat of the T-bird.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: goadra on September 24, 2006, 11:02:02 pm ---In the story: “As they descended the slope Ennis felt he was in a slow-motion, but headlong, irreversible fall.”
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I always connect that with Alma's "long, slow dive." But that's more a mirror than a bookend. And it's not in the movie or related to music ... So I'm curious about what you have in mind!
nakymaton:
--- Quote from: goadra on September 25, 2006, 08:17:05 am ---Yes. It was a long time before I caught all the lyrics. It seems to express Ennis’s view so well—“Losing’s just become a way of life for me.” He became accustomed to losing early in his life, so probably thought he never deserved any happiness.
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I just googled the lyrics. Wow. I think I'm going to start another thread just to let people talk about the background music choices, because I don't think we have one (?). I'll put the lyrics there.
Ok, new one:
Aguirre answers the phone in his office. ("Yeah? No. NO. Not on your fuckin life.")
serious crayons:
Well, the phone call sort of reminds me of Peter denying Jesus three times (I can almost hear a cock crowing outside Aguirre's trailer).
And the scene in general strikes me as sort of a bookend to Ennis getting married -- it's like a wedding that Aguirre is performing. ("Do you, Jack, promise to eat your breakfast and dinner in the camp, but sleep with the sheep 100 percent? ... And do you, Ennis, promise to be at the bridge every Friday at noon for supplies? (**hands Ennis watch/ring **) Then by the powers vested in me, I now pronounce you a pair of deuces. You may get the hell out of my office.")
But regarding the phone call specifically, is the bookend the three times Ennis rejects Jack's offer: once just after the reunion, once after the divorce and once when Jack suggests he move to Texas?
nakymaton:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on September 25, 2006, 04:35:38 pm ---But regarding the phone call specifically, is the bookend the three times Ennis rejects Jack's offer: once just after the reunion, once after the divorce and once when Jack suggests he move to Texas?
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That wasn't what I was thinking of.
I was thinking of answering the phone, specifically, and a little bit of the rhythm of the speech.
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