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Scene 1: Jack getting out of pickup
injest:
*Jess opens the door....tosses her hat in the ring*
I think Jack was getting busy the summer before and the half smile he gave when he saw Ennis was exasperation that his partner from the last time didn't come back...
and NO I have no back up for that position .....that is just what I think! I also think it didn't MEAN anything to him or the other guy and he didn't really think of it as being gay...
;D ;D ;D
ok my only 'proof'? He seemed to be pretty smooth grabbing that hand and sliding it down there...he knew what he was doing...
injest:
--- Quote from: Andrew on January 10, 2007, 01:01:14 am ---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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I thought it was interesting in almost EVERY screening...this is the one spot that ALL the audience laughed...for that one moment we were united in laughter...nice laughter...
after that it is as if there is something telling us to be quiet...something really big is coming...
(like the opening score of a classical movement....if that makes sense to you...the loud and momentous train and truck getting our attention and then silence; like when you hear shouting that fades away...you strain to follow the sound...paying attention more than you would have otherwise)
injest:
dang I done kilt this thread....
sorry ya'll!!
Katie77:
Needed to do some research into this, so yesterday, "forced" myself to watch the movie again..............isnt it a great movie, no matter how many times I see it, it still does things to me......
Anyway......watching this scene, again, I think Jack was sizing Ennis up, as "the new kid on the block", cause he had been there before....he tries to show authority to Ennis, by the way he leans about on the truck and then later on showing how good he can ride a horse.
Noticed something, when he was riding the horse, while Ennis was tying the knots, and Ennis said, "you better watch yourself, that horse has a low startle point"....Jacks answer..."aint no filly ever thrown me".......I wondered if by using the term "filly", was he referring to all females, human and horses.......
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Katie77 on January 12, 2007, 01:40:07 am ---I wondered if by using the term "filly", was he referring to all females, human and horses.......
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I'd go even further. I think by "filly" Jack was unknowingly referring to the future -- he didn't expect Ennis, despite his low startle point, to "throw" him. But he did.
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