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Bookends!
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 26, 2007, 01:05:10 pm ---Scene 147, the last scene in which we see Jack (where he was attacked and killed with a tire iron, but possibly in Ennis's imagination) aside from the dozy embrace flashback, is a bookend to what scene??
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??? Do you mean aside from the Earl flashback? Or am I as clueless as I feel?
brokebackjack:
The great bookend: The opening scene of the film, Ennis in a truck moving across the High Plains at dawn, to the left. The closing scene of the story of Jack and Ennis: Ennis driving across the High Plains at Dusk, to the right.
I call it the closing scene because the Film's Epilogue of Ennis in the trailor is --IMO--the SS's Prologue, details changed, emphasis shifted, but emotionally intact. As devastating as the Prologue, in a different way.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: brokebackjack on March 28, 2007, 05:04:25 am ---I call it the closing scene because the Film's Epilogue of Ennis in the trailor is --IMO--the SS's Prologue, details changed, emphasis shifted, but emotionally intact. As devastating as the Prologue, in a different way.
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Good point, bbjack! I'd never thought of it that way, but it makes sense.
:)
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 26, 2007, 01:05:10 pm ---Scene 147, the last scene in which we see Jack (where he was attacked and killed with a tire iron, but possibly in Ennis's imagination) aside from the dozy embrace flashback, is a bookend to what scene??
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I worded this confusingly. Let's try it again. Scene 147, where Jack is attacked and killed, is a bookend to what scene?
And bbj, I agree that the epilogue is the prologue!!
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 29, 2007, 01:04:57 pm ---I worded this confusingly. Let's try it again. Scene 147, where Jack is attacked and killed, is a bookend to what scene?
And bbj, I agree that the epilogue is the prologue!!
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Ok, I'll try again, too :).
Two scenes come to my mind: first the Earl flashback. Although we don't see how Earl is attacked, I think it's the most obvious bookend.
The second might seem a bit strange at first: Jack and Lureen in the bar. She comes to him from behind, she hits on him (although not literally), he goes down and lies on his back (in the car), he's defeated - and his fate is sealed :'(.
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