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A Ninth Viewing Observation
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: Dagi on June 30, 2007, 05:08:48 pm ---Wow, this thread sure is a treasure. I think I may have to watch the movie again ::).
Wonderful observation, Penthesilea; whether the blue inside of Ennis´shirt is deliberate or not, it´s a nice notion that Ennis had been "wearing" Jack
even before knowing him. That would mean Jack was his inevitable "fate".
Dagi
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Thank you Dagi. Call it fate or force of nature, they were meant to be (as if any Brokie would ever have doubted it ;)).
It's truly a visual bookend to The Shirts.
Do we have a specific bookend thread here on BM?
Dagi:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on July 02, 2007, 12:03:53 pm ---Thank you Dagi. Call it fate or force of nature, they were meant to be (as if any Brokie would ever have doubted it ;)).
It's truly a visual bookend to The Shirts.
Do we have a specific bookend thread here on BM?
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there was one on IMDb, and I loved it, it opened my eyes to so many things. Perhaps TOoP has saved it?
belbbmfan:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on July 02, 2007, 12:03:53 pm ---Thank you Dagi. Call it fate or force of nature, they were meant to be (as if any Brokie would ever have doubted it ;)).
It's truly a visual bookend to The Shirts.
Do we have a specific bookend thread here on BM?
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I found this Chrissi.
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,4631.0.html
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: belbbmfan on July 03, 2007, 06:38:19 am ---I found this Chrissi.
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,4631.0.html
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Thanks Fabienne. That's not exactly what I meant, but that's a good one too. And meanwhile I found the original bookends thread in the archive.
Brown Eyes:
Heya,
I was struck with the urge to revive this classic old thread upon viewing BBM again on Friday (I've long-since lost track of how many viewings I've had... certainly way, way more than 9 :laugh: ).
Anyway, and this will take us full-circle back to the original topic of this thread... the Randall/charity dance scene.
I have not re-read this whole thread prior to posting this... so forgive me if I'm repeating something that's been discussed before.
But, watching Jack in that scene in his really, really dark outfit (dark brown shirt, black hat, black jacket, black pants... and even his dark hair adds to this effect) I began to see him as a metaphorical "black sheep" character. Most of the men in the background have white hats (we've discussed this significance ad nauseum before of course) and in general, Jack just sticks out as a dark spot in most of the shots where we see him. In this case it's particularly interesting, because in this case we know he's not the only gay person in the room. But, in this scene I think we're supposed to see Jack just generally not fitting in to this Childress society at all. He just seems so unhappy sitting there. And, he clearly seems only to be tolerating the dance with LaShawn, rather than taking joy in dancing. The thing that really strikes me about his "black sheep" status in this scene (aside from his costuming) is how it's made abundantly clear that everyone at the dinner table has gone to college except for him. Sort of rubbing in the class difference between Jack and Lureen that has been a stumbling block to Jack's acceptance into Lureen's social circle (most importantly her parents) from the beginning.
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