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Brokeback's filmic structure a palindrome ?
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 05, 2007, 03:53:36 pm ---I'm envisioning a long scroll of paper that we can put up on the wall at the BBQ and colored markers with circles and arrows, as Arlo Guthrie sang about once upon a time. The header? "Palindromes in Brokeback Mountain"!!
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Lee, I love that idea. A long strip of butcher paper with markers and a timeline, and people can fill in all their observations about mirrors, echoes, bookends, palindromes, inkblots, symbols, metaphors, significant colors, yin and yang, references to mythology, The Aeneid, the Bible ...
That would be fun!
Front-Ranger:
I'm packing my markers now, ineedcrayons! Oh, and...crayons, of course! As for butcher paper, with all this meat I'm buying, that should be a piece a cherry cake!!
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on May 05, 2007, 12:54:17 am ---(A poster on IMDB once mentioned that a bag of bread is present in both scenes. Opaque—like Ennis—in the first. Transparent—like Ennis—in the second.)
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Who was that person anyway? I bet ineedcrayons knows!
serious crayons:
I do know. The person is here now, a very insightful and frequent poster who recently changed his/her name. I believe his/her name at IMDb was the same as his/her original name here, which was the name under which s/he posted about the bread-bag change.
I'll leave it somewhat opaque, because I'm not sure which name s/he would prefer used in this context.
TOoP/Bruce:
The carved wooden horses at the beginning and the end of the film fit neatly into the palindromatic structure theory. Similar parallels of flies on Aguirre's face ("count aint what I'd hoped for")/ Ennis's face -- both flies arrive at a time when Ennis and Jack are experiencing hostility toward each other. There also seems to be similar symmetrical construction parallels in the observation and delayed confrontation with concealed knowledge scenes (Aguirre/Jack, Ennis/Alma). hmm.
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