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On buckets, eagles, impatience, and...
Front-Ranger:
I am in heaven! This is more fun than should be legal! I have two laptops going, one with the movie, the other focused on this thread! And arrayed around the perimeter is an assemblage of dictionaries!! So, here is the left-right rundown:
First scene. J is stage right, E stage left
Aguirre's trailer: J stage right, E stage left
At the bar: same
Going up the mtn: One shot w/J stage right, Ennis stage left, most of the time Ennis is on the right
On the mtn: first scene with J stage left, E stage rt. J has a sheep on him, E is petting a blue heeler
Ennis looking up at Jack: back to J stage right, Ennis stage left
during this series of shots, the water is flowing right, and the sheep are flowing left.
In the bear shot, Ennis is initially traveling left, but then after encountering the bear, he goes right.
Where U been shot: J stage right, Ennis stage left, then cross to Ennis stage rt, Jack left
Shooting the elk: Ennis stage rt, Jack left
Eating elk: back to Ennis on left
Commuting: Jack stage left
Wanna switch: Jack on left, then Ennis on left when he takes off to go up w/the sheep
Warsh scene: Begins with Ennis on left, then switches to Jack on left
Flickin the rodeo belt: Jack on left
Setting up the new camp: Jack on left, also in the Tent don't look right scene
Water-Walkin Jesus: Jack on right
Go up to the sheep now: Ennis on left
The morning after: Ennis on left, then Ennis travelling left
No business scene: Ennis left, Jack right
Hail scene: Jack left, Ennis right
Chilean scene: Ennis left, J rt then opposite
Harmonica: Ennis rt, J left, then cross
Camp teardown: Jack left, Ennis right
Tussle: ends with Jack stage right
Going down the mtn: Ennis, left
more soon
Front-Ranger:
Goodbye: Ennis stage left
Puking his guts out: Ennis right
Marriage scene: Ennis Left
toboggan: travelling from left to right
Bed scene: Ennis on left\
Lureen: entrance from stage left
Jack: on stage right, from barrel race scene
Peanut jumble: Ennis on left
Post card scene: Ennis enters left and exits left. He later looks left
Reunion scene: Jack left, Enis right
Jack on left. jack on right
Jack on left
Hotel Siesta: Jack on right
Jumping in the lake: Ennis on rt
Prayer: Ennis on left, crosses to rt
Young Ennis: on left
Get a tutor: Jack on right
Last scene w Alma & Ennis: Ennis scene left
Apres Divorce scene: jack scene right
Jack travels right...all the way to Mexico
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on September 01, 2006, 10:56:17 pm ---Jack travels right...all the way to Mexico
--- End quote ---
LOL. I quite like how you phrased this observation. I think that taking note of the directions in which trucks move is particularly important and was one of the first hints to me that directions and positioning in general are crucial to the movie.
All I can say is, WOW! :o Your list is so well-researched! Clearly the right person was nominated for this job. ;)
Your list puts my beginning shot at a horizontal/ vertical list to shame. I'll watch the movie again tomorrow and try to be more organized about a complete list... So stay tuned. Its fascinating to see how carefully Jack is constructed as the "right" guy and Ennis is the "left" guy. Clearly there are some reversals of this and some exceptions, but wow. Making the systematic list really makes this jump out. So, why do we think Lee did this? Is there a metaphor in the words "right" and "left"... I sort of think there is. Maybe something as silly and sort of sad as Jack= Mr. Right for Ennis. And maybe that Ennis is the one left behind/alone at the end. I'm sure there are all sorts of interesting cultural connotations and traditions associated with right and left too.
The level of interesting detail that can be teased out of this movie never ceases to amaze me.
By the way... thanks goadra for the horizontal and vertical observations!
cheers!
serious crayons:
Or maybe there's some cinematic rule we don't know about, like "the person on stage right tends to appear dominant" or something like that (making that one up). Like the concept of the Golden Mean, that states that the most visually pleasing position for an object, say in a painting, is roughly three-fifths of the way across a rectangle (Amanda, hope I didn't butcher that definition too much -- my art history class was a long time ago).
Anyway, looking at Lee's and Amanda's research, I certainly can think of ways these findings could be significant.
Front-Ranger:
To finish this up,
In the after divorce scene, Ennis looks at a white truck that is traveling left, while a black crow above it travels right.
Twist Thanksgiving: Jack on left
Monroe Thanksgiving: Ennis on right, then on left during the confrontation
Black and Blue Eagle: Ennis on left, truck with man enters from right
Campground: Ennis on left
Meeting Cassie: Ennis on left
Meeting Randall: Jack on right, Randall on left
Last campground: Ennis on left
Water flows gently past the tent from left to right
Last confrontation begins with Ennis on right
Ennis pivots from left to right in the background (unique camera angle)
Ends with Ennis on left
Flashback: Ennis on right
Bus station: Ennis on left
Phone conversation with Lureen: Ennis on left
Jack's death: Jack enters from left
Visiting the Twists: Ennis enters from left, Mr. Twist is on the right
During this scene, Ennis is on the right when he's smiling, and on the left when he is upset by OMT
Closet scene: Ennis on left, shirts on right
Mrs. Twist is always on the left, except when she puts the shirts in a bag
Last scene: Alma Jr. on left
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