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fffffffzzzzzzzzzzzzzap! (lightning and electricity references)
Dal:
--- Quote from: nakymaton on November 03, 2006, 12:06:16 am ---Jack and Ennis set off sparks in each other.
Story:
...the vibrations of the humming like faint electricity... (dozy embrace scene)
His shaking hand grazed Ennis's hand, electrical current snapped between them. (reunion... and there's also a storm brewing in the background, which, ummmm... comes to a climax when it starts hailing on the Motel Siesta. ;D Weather-as-sexual-tension metaphor?)
...the lightning storm that killed 42 sheep...
And in the movie, there are a number of thunder storms, aren't there? Not just the one where Ennis is washing the coffee pot and looking up the mountain toward Jack? There's thunder with the hail storm that scatters the sheep, I think.
At the reunion, Ennis's lighter-flicking kind of takes the place of lightning-flickering to build the tension.
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Electricity, and charge, lightning, hail, AND love? Forces of nature, same metaphor for AL as AP I think. They're not always good for us either, are they? but we don't exactly have much choice.
Dal:
--- Quote from: nakymaton on November 03, 2006, 12:06:16 am ---there's also a storm brewing in the background, which, ummmm... comes to a climax when it starts hailing on the Motel Siesta.
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Yah -- with a slippery wind banging a door throughout the night!! :D
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Mikaela on November 03, 2006, 06:38:23 pm ---
--- Quote ---(about the electric carving knife) Well, you know my theory about that, right?
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Well, I don't. Please enlighten me? :)
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Sure! I've mentioned this before, and I can imagine other people rolling their eyes and thinking, "There she goes again ..." but I have always seen the electric carving knife as a vibrator. And it represents what Monroe is to Alma: a pale substitute for the "real thing."
It's something about the buzzing sound, I guess. I think this occurred to me the very first time I saw the movie! But, as others have pointed out, a carving knife would not make a good vibrator. Don't try this at home! :laugh:
OK, here's one. In light of (sorry) what we've discussed about lightning so far, what do you make of Jack's first summer on the mountain, with the 42 sheep killed by lightning? And how might that fit with the idea that Jack, having already spent a summer on the mountain, is possibly not a virgin?
LauraGigs:
Yeah, but didn't Jack spend his first summer on Brokeback alone?
And even if he were the most consciencious sheperd ever, would that have prevented the lightning strikes?
(Not to say that Jack was a virgin. I'm just saying he had the fall, winter and spring to get action too — Brokeback wasn't the only place an undie-wringer-outer like Jack could get some . . .)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on November 04, 2006, 12:56:34 am ---Yeah, but didn't Jack spend his first summer on Brokeback alone?
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Well, I don't know. Has that been estabilshed? I thought it was never specified one way or another, but wouldn't it be kind of dangerous for one sheep herder to go up there alone?
--- Quote ---And even if he were the most consciencious sheperd ever, would that have prevented the lightning strikes?
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No, of course not! I don't expect Jack to control the weather! ;)
--- Quote ---(Not to say that Jack was a virgin. I'm just saying he had the fall, winter and spring to get action too — Brokeback wasn't the only place an undie-wringer-outer like Jack could get some . . .)
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Absolutely. I'm just going by the idea that when Annie Proulx and the movie make a point of saying it's Jack's second summer on Brokeback and Ennis' first, they're talking about more than sheep herdin. ;)
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