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A Ninth Viewing Observation
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: dly64 on August 09, 2006, 03:15:16 pm ---Hey Doug ... LaShawn says she pledged "Tri Del" at SMU. I can surmise that Randall went to Texas A&M and she was there for an Aggie game. Why he even dated her is beyond my comprehension. Unless of course, as Mikaela pointed out, she was so "ditzy and self absorbed" he knew he could have sex with a man in the same room and she wouldn't even notice.
Additional note: I just looked up "SMU" which stands for Southern Methodist University located in Dallas. Guess that makes sense!
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Indeed it does. I love how she tells Lureen she could have had any job she wanted in North Dallas, but she chose Neiman Marcus because when it comes to clothes she has no resistance at all. ;D
Anybody know, does SMU play Texas A&M at football?
nakymaton:
I just looked up the SMU football schedule. Nope, not this year. (The Aggies are infamously obsessive about football, but their big rival is the University of Texas.)
Another thought about Randall... you know, the character is just designed to make Jack miss Ennis. For instance: Randall's got this college education... in Animal Husbandry. Randall went to college to learn the kind of stuff that Ennis learned from experience, starting in his teens when he dropped out of high school. (And Jack meets Randall when Randall's car is broken down, and Randall couldn't fix it. Contrast that with the way Ennis helped get Jack's truck started, there at the end of the Brokeback summer.)
dly64:
--- Quote from: nakymaton on August 09, 2006, 04:15:09 pm ---Another thought about Randall... you know, the character is just designed to make Jack miss Ennis. For instance: Randall's got this college education... in Animal Husbandry. Randall went to college to learn the kind of stuff that Ennis learned from experience, starting in his teens when he dropped out of high school. (And Jack meets Randall when Randall's car is broken down, and Randall couldn't fix it. Contrast that with the way Ennis helped get Jack's truck started, there at the end of the Brokeback summer.)
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Interesting observation. I especially love the contrast between Randall's broken down car and Jack's. Something else to consider!
Mikaela:
--- Quote ---the character is just designed to make Jack miss Ennis.
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Great observations! Yes, I think - designed to make him miss Ennis... and to simultaneously make him realize and consider the possibility inherent in the obvious contrasts. In the things you mention, and in the "bigger picture" of Randall seeming so much more at ease just where Ennis is tied the most in knots. All of it perhaps leading to Jack despairingly pondering whether Ennis may prove "too much" in the end - but the contrasting Randall might possibly be just the ticket (and more than available, to boot.) :-\ :-\
welliwont:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on August 09, 2006, 10:16:16 am ---
(for all Ennis knows, the other fella is someone Jack met and fell in love with AFTER seeing Ennis the last time -- at least we have reason to think otherwise),
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Jack went up to LF immediately following his last trip with Ennis. In fact he told Ennis at the truck that he was gonna head up to LF for a day or two.
I have always assumed that when Jack's father told Ennis " then this spring he says he's gonna bring another fella up here to whup this ranch into shape, blah blah blah" - well I have always thought that Jack said this on that self-same visit to LF, the day after leaving Ennis for the last time. Doesn't Ennis also think the same thing, that it was the very next day?
I have seen lots of posts inferring that this or that happened between the time of their last fishing trip and the time he told his parents about bringing up some other guy, but I believe that from what we've been shown/told that both trips were one and the same trip for Jack. In other words he had the long drive up to LF to mull over his life and what to do about it, cried about Ennis I'm sure, and was trying to work himself up to doing something to fix a goddamn bitch of an unsatisfactory situation.
Is there a flaw in this logic, people? Why do so many Brokies think that there was a time lapse between the two events?
Thinking of leaving Ennis, telling his parents about the change of plans, and actually accomplishing the feat of severing ties with his beloved Ennis are entirely different matters, I don't know if Jack would have actually succeeded in leaving his other half, but I think he was thinking on it, that is why he said what he said to his Pa, just like Diane has explained so well.
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