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On buckets, eagles, impatience, and...
cmr107:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on April 16, 2006, 06:09:22 pm ---Thanks Amanda, for this list. I'm about to go see the movie at the cheap movie theater, and look forward to noticing the bucket and coffeepot in the dozy embrace scene.
Clarissa
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Elle, when I first saw this I read it as "noticing the bucket and coffeepot in a dozy embrace" and it made me smile.
Front-Ranger:
Hi, it's me again. Just a few more thoughts on the way that Jack is likened to a 4-footed animal and Ennis to an eagle in crucial scenes that I brought up in an earlier post. In the story, Ennis calls Jack "Little Darlin" which is an endearment reserved for his horses and daughters. On Ennis and Jack's first camping trip after they reunited, Jack asks Ennis how long their relationship would continue, and Ennis replies, "For as long as we can ride 'em. There ain't no reins on this one." The most remarkable reference to Jack as like a horse is during the flashback scene when Ennis comes upon Jack and says, "You're sleepin on your feet like a horse."
This is in addition to the reference I mentioned earlier where Ennis "hauled Jack up on all fours" in the first tent scene.
In a thread called "Coincidence or..." is a great discussion of the bluebirds which appear throughout the movie.
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: cmr107 on April 17, 2006, 05:27:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on April 16, 2006, 06:09:22 pm ---Thanks Amanda, for this list. I'm about to go see the movie at the cheap movie theater, and look forward to noticing the bucket and coffeepot in the dozy embrace scene.
Clarissa
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Elle, when I first saw this I read it as "noticing the bucket and coffeepot in a dozy embrace" and it made me smile.
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Maybe one our resident artists could draw that for us. It's cute.
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: jmmgallagher on April 12, 2006, 05:43:10 pm --- strong, silent Ennis is frightened, and flibberty-gibbet Jack is utterly fearless and brave.
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I love this. I haven't heard the term flibberty-gibbet for ages. :laugh: This also sounds like a pair of phrases just begging to become part of a poem... like a limerick or a nusery rhyme.
Anyway, what I'm really here to bring up is that darn eagle feather that Jack is supposed to wear in his hat (in the story). He wears it at the very beginning and Proulx makes a big point of noting that he's still wearing it 20 years later. I guess the eagle symbol can alternate back and forth between Jack and Ennis.
Lynne:
--- Quote from: meryl on April 16, 2006, 10:59:38 pm ---My favorite appearance of the coffeepot is when Ennis stretches out by the campfire after Jack gives him the blanket. Note the position of the coffeepot in relation to Ennis's anatomy. ;)
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That's a good one, certainly. I thought Ang Lee showed a great deal of restraint in that the obvious 'phallic' symbols are few and subtle. But it makes me smile to see it. :)
-Lynne
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