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"...Tresspassers...Will Be Shot, Survivors..." signs - how old?
nakymaton:
--- Quote from: Shuggy on September 24, 2006, 04:04:27 pm ---Is there a sense in which Ennis, a trespasser who survived, is shot again?
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He just looks so heart-shot (to steal Annie's phrase) at the end, first in the closet when he discovers the shirts, and then when he says "Jack, I swear..." That's all I meant. Like losing Jack hurt enough, and in some ways the shirts are comfort because they symbolize the love that they had, but at the same time, they're a tangible memory of what's gone.
It's like... I know at the end that Jack's the one who is dead, but Ennis is the one I really keep aching for even after all this time. If that makes any sense.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: twistedude on September 24, 2006, 02:19:55 pm ---and if the added significance of the message didn't hit you THE FIRST TIME YOU SAW THE MOVIE, you must have been asleep...
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In that case, I must have been in a coma. I'm not sure I even noticed the sign at all, let alone appreciated its added significance. That first time, I noticed exactly two things that I thought might possibly have additional significance, though I didn't know what it was, and neither one of them was that sign.
But how could anyone understand the sign's significance if they didn't know how the movie ends? Or do you mean they'd get to the end and say to themselves, "Oh, so THAT'S what the sign outside Aguirre's office really meant!"
--- Quote from: nakymaton on September 24, 2006, 04:09:48 pm ---I know at the end that Jack's the one who is dead, but Ennis is the one I really keep aching for even after all this time. If that makes any sense.
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Yeah, me too, and that's what I mean, too. At the end, Ennis has "survived" only by the most literal definition of the term.
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on September 24, 2006, 04:28:50 pm ---In that case, I must have been in a coma. I'm not sure I even noticed the sign at all, let alone appreciated its added significance. That first time, I noticed exactly two things that I thought might possibly have additional significance, though I didn't know what it was, and neither one of them was that sign.
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I never figured out the significance of the sign either.
Kudos to Shuggy for noticing it and bringing it to our attention! :D
You all may have been asleep or in comas, but I have watched Brokeback Mountain more than 100 times.
Hell, I must be DEAD. ???
Brown Eyes:
Wow, I never stopped to consider how that sign applies to the story and Jack and Ennis particularly. But, it's very good. It does seem to echo the situation with Jack and Ennis being "trespassers" and bearing the "consequences" in two different ways.
The sign seems very appropriate to an "old West" type atmosphere for the film. It reminds me of the old signs such as "please don't shoot the piano player" etc. that you see sometimes in saloons and other similar venues in movies and plays about the old West.
mvansand76:
--- Quote from: David925 on September 24, 2006, 03:34:12 pm ---What in the world does a bucking bronco on a license plate have to do with a trespassing sign? ???
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I have to admit I am as confused as you are!
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