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Where was Ennis coming from? Going to?
David:
I had kinda wondered how Ennis met Alma. Ennis is such a shy, introverted guy. Alma must have pursued him. Maybe he was at the Riverton Grocery store when she spotted him?
David:
Oh, one more thing. There is a Signal Mountain near Jackson lake, over on the Idaho side.
Lumière:
I always sorta thought to myself that Ennis and Alma met in High school or something...and because he was so shy, his brother and sister might have had a hand in encouraging him to settle down with such a 'nice girl'. Also, like David said, there is also a possibility that Alma pursued him, she clearly loved him from the start.
I have also never seen the writing on the door of the truck that Ennis gets out of in the beginning - nothing except Ennis exists in that scene, the way he hesitates abit, puts on his jacket and adjusts the collar, with a brown paper bag in his hand (holding all his worldly possessions probably)..*sigh*
Kd5000:
That's interesting about a Signal Mountain near Jackson lake. Will have to consult my map. Though it doesn't label mountains unless their unsually high.
By thew wayt what does Alma see in Ennis? He doesn't have any money, career prospects, etc etc, a good provider, in pre-womens lib world... Then again, expectations of life might have been different in rural America in 1963.
She was in love with him, even after the divorce, I belive Michelle Williams said Monroe was just a substitute. Love I suppose is the reason she wanted to marry him and then hopes he gets a good paying job working in the oilfields or a job with the power company. Probably she didn't expect him to want to be a ranch-hand all his life.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Kd5000 on April 17, 2006, 01:36:46 pm ---Brokeback Mountain was in the BigHorns. Am I correct? Jack tells his wife he goes fishing way up there in Wy because the Big Horns aren't in Texas. Good excuse.
--- End quote ---
Even though Brokeback doesn't really exist, I recall a discussion about its location on the old big board months ago. I suppose it's possible that a fictional mountain wouldn't have to be in the same place in the movie as in Annie Proulx's story, but I recall that in the story, in the motel, Ennis tells Jack that he first thought he had the stomach cramps because he had eaten something bad at "that place in Dubois." Dubois is west and, I think, a little north of Riverton, on the edge of the Wind River Mountains. So in the story, at least, it appears that Brokeback is in the Wind Rivers. There is national forest land in that area, too, and remember that the sheep were pastured on forest service land.
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