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Scene 1: Jack getting out of pickup
jpwagoneer1964:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on January 09, 2007, 04:38:29 pm ---That's not obvious to me. I think the whole emphasis on the fact that this is Jack's second summer on Brokeback is meant to indicate he had experience with more than herdin sheep.
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I still think that Jack was alone the first summer, the 25% loss in 1962 was likely the reason he was with Ennis in 1963.
squashcourt:
I have to agree with JP.....19 -
Fantasies sometimes overtake some of us.
There is a lot of depthness in the stolen two glances than merely eyeing each other up as a possible "stem the rose" opportunity.
Let's not forget Annie Proulx's opening of the story.
Pierre
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: squashcourt on January 09, 2007, 09:28:39 pm ---Fantasies sometimes overtake some of us.
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So true! But when this movie and story takes special care to emphasize a point, it's usually because they're trying to tell us something.
Kd5000:
I just thought Ennis was just apprehensive that day. His situation was much more dire. He arrived with a paperbag, presume he hitchhiked to get there (?), confides latter that he doesn't have any place to be as his brother got married, etc. I would say he's got alot on his mind.
Jack is more confident. I think he might have met a cowpoke at a honky-tonk in the past. Look at the moves he puts on Jimbo the Clown. He knows something about cruising. Yep, Jack is 19 and is not repressing his sexuality. He's checking out his "company" for the summer. I would. ;)
Andrew:
What I really like about that scene is the transition between Jack getting out of the truck after that spectacularly bad entrance, kicking it, looking at it, then turning around to look at Ennis, first the quick glance then the leisurely stare.
Here's the series of screen captures:
http://www.stripedwall.com/cpg/thumbnails.php?album=170&page=3
http://www.stripedwall.com/cpg/thumbnails.php?album=170&page=4
It's a great effect, that sputtering and lurching and door bang and kick thunk, then the silence as the machine and the noise recede, replaced by the silence, just the two men and their careful looks. Jack's situation is presented in just a few seconds there, his poverty and his loneliness, the germ of the rest of his story. The glance comes just a few seconds after the kick, but Jack's life is going to fork out in two opposite directions to address the two issues, to Texas and Lureen for the humiliating poverty represented by the truck, to Wyoming and Ennis for the loneliness. In a way the contrast between the noise and the juxtaposed silence represents that.
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