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Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: angry little lawyer on December 22, 2006, 03:45:50 am ---Why is the Twist's color scheme for their house white on white? Has John Twist not heard of this newfangled invention called color?
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I can think of four reasons, three legit and one, well....
1) Symbolism borrowed from Ang Lee's Asian culture - white is a funeral color;
2) For an otherworldly feel to the scene;
3) The circumstance of this being an abandoned house and BBM having been shot on a low budget - slapping on some white paint would be a quick and cheap way of making the house look dilapidated but lived in; and
4) Mrs. Twist was psychic when it came to silly-ass decorating fashions. In this case, she had a precognitive dream of those thousands and thousands of cookie-cutter subdivisions with 8-bedroom houses on postage stamp lots and every last one with a white-on-white decorating scheme inside. In some parts of the US, houses in suburban subdivisions seem to have been soaked in some giant vat of bleach.
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 28, 2006, 07:36:28 pm ---Why does Ennis call his father, who he suspects of being a murderer and a bigot, a "fine calf roper" ?
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Probably denial. Plenty of adults who've had grossly abusive parents do some very creative editing in their memories of them, and Ennis apparently wasn't an exception. e.g., "He was a psychopathic sonofabitch but he made really good chili. I'm going to forget that first part."
Front-Ranger:
Loved your replies, Marcia! One very funny, one sobering. Now, post a new "Why does Ennis" question!!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 28, 2006, 07:36:28 pm ---Why does Ennis call his father, who he suspects of being a murderer and a bigot, a "fine calf roper" ?
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--- Quote from: Marge_Innavera on December 29, 2006, 07:00:55 am ---Probably denial. Plenty of adults who've had grossly abusive parents do some very creative editing in their memories of them, and Ennis apparently wasn't an exception. e.g., "He was a psychopathic sonofabitch but he made really good chili. I'm going to forget that first part."
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Actually, I don't think Ennis sees his father as being either bigoted or grossly abusive. He thinks his dad was right -- when he jokingly says this to Jack about his dad's opinion of rodeoers, it means so much more. In other words, he sees everything his father did and said (with the possible exception of the actual murder, which is unclear), as a legitimate and correct reflection of right and wrong. To Ennis, his dad's opinion reflects the realities of society and the universe. He wasn't bigoted, in Ennis' eyes, because Ennis thought homosexuality was wrong, too. He wasn't abusive, he was just teaching his son about the world. So not only was Mr. Ennis a fine roper, to Ennis probably considered him a decent dad. Poor Ennis! :-\
Why does Ennis look like he has just thought of something, after Cassie runs out of the bus station?
Katie77:
Why does Ennis write to Jack telling him about the divorce, then rejects him when he comes to visit him?
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