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Question About the Lake Scene
Scott6373:
The fact that they can sit there and discuss sexual escapades with women and not (apparently) show jealousy, yet when E finds out about Mexico, he flips out...that speaks volumes.
jpwagoneer1964:
I'm with Fern in that the "Sometime I miss.."was the second or third day iof their trip not the last. I think Jack knew Ennis well enough that he really didn't expect and answer from Ennis and was not hurt by his lack of response. The long faces on the final day were because of thier parting. As the screen play reads "Mood between then is tense, as always when their time together is about to end."
I think Jack meant wife. He would not have been the one to start anything but women found him an attractive man, nothing much between him and Lureen anymore... No I don't think it was Leshaun.
Below As I wrote then in 'Photo captions'
Damn that Twist...was just about ta tell him couldn't make August...an he goes tellin' how bad he misses me. Guess Ah 's just have ta wait till later...hate ta tell 'm at all. Don't he knows how much Ah miss him? ...Nothin' Ah'd like better than ta be with 'm all the time like we's up here...but...just can't be so...
Some folks thought I was disappointed at Ennis fer not sayin' nothin' after I told how much I miss him. Didn't expect him ta say anything, just wanted ta let 'm know is all. No one ever saw what went on next. Could tell Ennis had somethin' on his mind though, just staring straight ahead, found out later it was that he couldn't make August, couldn't tell me just then, knew that'd make me upset. He was right 'bout that. Never had no doubts how Ennis felt 'bout me, know how hard it was fer him ta untangle himself and walk inta the tent that night so long ago back at Brokeback, went against everthin' he knew. Still not easy fer him, I know what it means that he sees me whenever he can..
Mark
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: Kazza on January 19, 2007, 12:55:20 pm ---
In this scene my feeling is that Jack has no intention of telling Ennis about Randall (or whoever else he might have been seeing). I think that when Jack begins "The truth is..." he intends to finish the sentence with a more heartfelt expression of his feelings, or a resurection of his belief that they can have a life together. However, knowing Ennis (and his skittishness) Jack tones it down to "... I miss you so much I can hardly stand it" (which is still a pretty strong declartion).
Just my ha-penny's worth.
Karen
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Karen, I'm with you hunderd per cent on this.
Cameron:
--- Quote from: southendmd on January 19, 2007, 01:49:17 pm ---": "We ain't queer."
When Jack reveals "the truth is...sometimes I miss you so much, I can hardly stand it", that statement is awfully close to "I love you", and therefore unacceptable. Ennis sort of cowers in response.
I always wondered if Ennis felt too threatened by this, and "made up" the story about August.
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I so totally agree, in fact thats the basis for all my theories, I think that Ennis was making excuses, why I don't really know, all of the things that were mentioned. And maybe Ennis was finally starting to realize to that he couldn't live without Jack and that scared him too, so I am convinced no the working in august was an excuse. I think that at this point he truly felt he was 'nowwhere and nothing' so he was terrified that Jack would leave him despite Jack saying said 'sometimes I miss you so much'
Or maybe he was terrified because Jack felt like that and he realized he did too...
However, I am convinced it all was just an excuse because he did the same thing with A. Junior twice, and both times he was obviously fishing for excuses, at least to me.
Believe me, it takes one to know one, I can see Ennis viewpoint and I am almost sure that he was making an excuse
Ladyeve:
Hello,
That was what Jack always wanted, for Ennis to say "Can I go with you?, but he never did. But remember, the next best thing was there in L.F., the shirts.
Ladyeve
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