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Female Sexuality in BBM
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: atz75 on March 15, 2007, 12:25:25 am ---Cassie: Maybe somewhat similar to the situation with Lureen, we get a sense that Cassie is sexually confident and bold. She's not afraid to make first moves or ask guys to dance (as we see Lureen will do too). But, it seems that the movie treats Lureen and Cassie differently when it comes to this topic, but it's hard for me to pinpoint how. And, maybe both Cassie and Lureen are meant to illustrate different reactions to frustration.
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I'm sort of surprised that Cassie put up with Ennis for so long (if it really was five years, as the movie seems to indicate). She's beautiful, confident, bold ... and yet she puts up with a boyfriend who is so uninterested in their relationship that he doesn't mention it to his best friend, when he finally does discuss her sounds pretty indifferent, doesn't talk (unlike Carl!) and presumably isn't the greatest in bed. And not only does she put up with him, she fallls in love with him, chases after him when he starts to fade and is heartbroken when he dumps her!
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on March 15, 2007, 03:35:07 pm ---(if it really was five years, as the movie seems to indicate).
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Still unsolved, this one. Like you, I just don't believe it. For all the reasons you gave.
Additionally, I don't think Cassie would not have let him get away with dumping her just by playing dead. Not after five years. It contradicts sanity and reason. God-knows-what could have happened to Ennis (even if she knew he was alive from Steve). When you've been together for five f'in years, you would believe something bad must have happened to your loved one. So I think she would have sat on the steps of his trailer one evening he got home to finally know what's the matter.
Nope, I think it's not been five years. Or if Ossana/McMurtry/Lee deliberately made it five years (for whatever reason), they may have been wrong. One interpretation comes to my mind, that could be possible: they made it five years indeed deliberately to show poor communication between Ennis and Jack and how much unfathomed ground there was between them.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on March 15, 2007, 03:35:07 pm ---I'm sort of surprised that Cassie put up with Ennis for so long (if it really was five years, as the movie seems to indicate). She's beautiful, confident, bold ... and yet she puts up with a boyfriend who is so uninterested in their relationship that he doesn't mention it to his best friend, when he finally does discuss her sounds pretty indifferent, doesn't talk (unlike Carl!) and presumably isn't the greatest in bed. And not only does she put up with him, she fallls in love with him, chases after him when he starts to fade and is heartbroken when he dumps her!
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Yes, but girls don't fall in love with fun, Katherine. (What's the matter with us??!)
If you'd been to that part of Wyoming, (as I recall you've been to Idaho, which is similar) you'd know why Cassie puts up with Ennis for five effen years. Marriageable guys are few and far between; in fact PEOPLE are few and far between (altho there's gettin to be a lot of roughnecks around there, but they're sequestered away on mancamps, LOL!)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 15, 2007, 05:12:50 pm ---If you'd been to that part of Wyoming, (as I recall you've been to Idaho, which is similar) you'd know why Cassie puts up with Ennis for five effen years. Marriageable guys are few and far between; in fact PEOPLE are few and far between (altho there's gettin to be a lot of roughnecks around there, but they're sequestered away on mancamps, LOL!)
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Well, when I lived in Idaho I was in the Ketchum/Sun Valley area, where there were lots of marriagable guys -- that is, if you don't mind transplanted California millionaires. 8) (They actually looked quite a bit like that smiley!)
But I get your point.
Front-Ranger:
Well, when I was in Sun Valley/Ketchum last, I remember there bein a lot of cokeheads!!
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