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Book Discussion: Brokeback Mountain
Front-Ranger:
To understand this scene better and read more about the fascinating character of Aguirre, go here!
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,3130.0/all.html
loneleeb3:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on October 12, 2008, 11:46:23 pm ---Just randomly open the story to any page and start reading any sentence. You'll find words that will fascinate and bedevil you for days...for instance, I just noticed this passage:
"He didn't ask if Ennis had a watch but took a cheap round ticker on a braided cord from a box on a high shelf, wound and set it, tossed it to him as if he weren't worth the reach. 'Tomorrow mornin we'll truck you up the jump-off.' Pair of deuces going nowhere."
It is so poignant that Aguirre concludes this ceremony with the giving of a heart to Ennis. For that is what it is, a cheap round ticker on a braided cord. From a high shelf, no less. And another thing that strikes me is the italization of the words tomorrow mornin. Just like Jack's last words, 'See you in the morning.' Aguirre calls Jack and Ennis a pair a deuces, two twos, accentuating the duality that permeates this story.
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I always wondered what they did thatt night before meeting in the morning. Where did they stay? Ennis certainly couldn't afford a hotel and he didn't have a vehicle to sleep in. How far was the jump off spot from town? Did he walk alnight or catch a ride with Jack? Maybe these have been discussed but I never saw it addressed.
Front-Ranger:
The story gives not a hint. I believe an outtake exists from the movie showing Jack sleeping in his truck, with Ennis in the passenger seat, awake and looking uncomfortable. Probably Ennis would have been just fine stretched out in the grass beside Aguirre's trailer, with his jacket rolled up under his head. It's called bivouacking.
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: loneleeb3 on October 16, 2008, 08:32:09 am ---I always wondered what they did thatt night before meeting in the morning. Where did they stay? Ennis certainly couldn't afford a hotel and he didn't have a vehicle to sleep in. How far was the jump off spot from town? Did he walk alnight or catch a ride with Jack? Maybe these have been discussed but I never saw it addressed.
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For Story!Ennis: he did have his own car where he probably slept in.
Movie!Ennis: I've heard about those outtakes and it makes sense to me that Jack would share his truck with Ennis for that night (and that Ennis would look uncomfortable).
Front-Ranger:
Random sentence for today. The last Jack and Ennis ever knew of each other:
"Jack heard his spurs tremble as he mounted, the words 'See you tomorrow,' and the horse's shuddering snort, grind of hoof on stone.
For some reason, I thought the last words were "See you in the morning." Was that the way it was in the movie?
I love the references to metal (spurs), air (horse's snorting), bone (hoof) and earth (stone) in this short passage. The presence of water is noticably absent.
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