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Our BetterMost Community => Chez Tremblay => Topic started by: Front-Ranger on April 26, 2006, 02:59:10 pm

Title: Symbolism of the gun from TOB
Post by: Front-Ranger on April 26, 2006, 02:59:10 pm

A very interesting thread on imdb by the remarkable clancypants:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388795/board/inline/41841382 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388795/board/inline/41841382)

Title: Re: Symbolism of the gun from TOB
Post by: Front-Ranger on April 27, 2006, 11:58:30 am

It's not what you might think...clancypants has a very convincing argument that the gun symbolizes Jack and Ennis' relationship. You have to read it! Hope it hasn't been targeted by trolls...

Title: Re: Symbolism of the gun from TOB
Post by: serious crayons on April 27, 2006, 01:09:20 pm

Wow! That is amazing! Thanks for bringing it to our attention, F-R.

Can we lure clancypants over here?

Title: Re: Symbolism of the gun from TOB
Post by: serious crayons on April 27, 2006, 01:14:10 pm

In fact, that got me started reading some of clancypants' previous posts and they are AMAZING.

Title: Re: Symbolism of the gun from TOB
Post by: SFEnnisSF on April 27, 2006, 01:56:02 pm

I hope someone has saved the thread!!!!

Title: Re: Symbolism of the gun from TOB
Post by: chefjudy on April 27, 2006, 02:11:09 pm

 :) ok, like the rest of the Tremblayans, we know that Ang put a lot of symbolism, special touches, bookends and other neat coincidental ideas into the making of BBM that the layers peel like an onion and yet we never seem to reach the core - pretty amazing when you think about it!   Just when you think there is nothing left to decipher, someone comes up with something new that wasn't discovered before - wow!...........................most impressive! :D

Title: Re: Symbolism of the gun from TOB
Post by: Front-Ranger on April 27, 2006, 02:55:29 pm

There's also a lot of symbolism in Annie Proulx's story, which Lee has expanded on, enhanced, and embroidered into a rich treasury.

Title: Re: Symbolism of the gun from TOB
Post by: serious crayons on April 28, 2006, 01:06:40 am

I'm bumping this because I hope a lot of people will get a chance to check out the gun thread that Front-Ranger so wisely posted. Clancypants has discovered a whole new, completely realized, extremely convincing metaphor that I for one hadn't even come close to thinking of. Once we got to buckets and coffee pots, I thought surely we had found every last one. Apparently not.

F-R is right to call clancypants remarkable. I had time to read just a few of his/her other posts, and they were awesome.