I love how Ennis holds his hat in his hands as he shyly approaches the tent.
I love when Ennis comes out on the landing, looks down at Jack in the parking lot, spreads his hands, and says, "Jack fucking Twist!"Gotta disagree there Jeff, - I think Ennis looks the happiest and the most <at peace with the world> when he's sending up a prayer to the heavens ... supposedly for Jack having forgotten his harmonica, but we all know the real reason for his total contentment! (the after-glow thingee) >:D
I swear. ... That's the happiest he looks in the whole movie. Pure joy at seeing Jack.
I love how Ennis looks up at Mrs. Twist when she has her hand on his shoulder. Grateful and sad, with a little lift of his heart at the prospect of going up to Jack's room.
I love the clickin that starbie mentioned and the coughin that latjoreme talked about. How bout this one - I love when he jumps out of the semi with his fine legs and adjusts the collar of his jacket.
His eyes are red-rimmed and she knows both that he's the reason behind those two shirts and that he has been crying and will continue to do so. :'(
I love Ennis's smile on those rare occassions he bestows one on us!"You Bet!"
Okay, don't know if I have already mentioned it in this thread .. but I have mentioned it in all the I love everything Ennis threads that Roland has started: ;D
I love the way Ennis sits very suggestively spread-eagled-like on the couch after a coupla beers, waiting anxiously for Jack on 'that' day! I mean, he was oozing hotness in that scene ... ::)
And how he's drunk seven beers by the time he shows up (I believe I counted) and smoked God knows how many cigarettes trying to calm his nerves (and libido) waiting for him.
And how he's drunk seven beers by the time he shows up (I believe I counted) and smoked God knows how many cigarettes trying to calm his nerves (and libido) waiting for him.
I counted eight, but I could be wrong. When Ennis is onscreen, I have a hard time focusing on anything else.
*sigh* All those butterflies in his stomach.... :D
How can anyone not love everything Ennis? If you'd ask me in what scene I do not love him, it'll be easier. Can't keep my eyes off him when he is on screen. I guess I missed the one or other Jack moment/facial expression for always looking at Ennis.
Hey now people. I disapprove of pitting Ennis against Jack or Jack against Ennis. As Proulx says you can't have Ennis without Jack.
Amanda, you are right, of course, and very fair. Beyond my own unavoidable preference I'm not crazy about the pitting either, though mainly because Ennis usually fares worse. I always feel bad for him and want to leap to his defense, or at least offer some balance to the Jackophilia.
For a while on imdb, I considered starting a thread called "in defense of Ennis," because I feel he frequently gets judged too harshly. But the "ILE Ennis" thread goes a long way in that direction.
In the short story:
I love Ennis telling Jack "Took me about a year a figure out it was that I shouldn't a let you out a my sights. Too late then by a long, long while."
For me, the movie Ennis is oh so much more poignant - His attempt at vomiting, and his wall punching is this intensive reaction to the seperation that tells oh so much more that the line in the book. I do love Ennis' intense emotion at that moment - gets to me so much more effectively than in the telling
In the short story:
I love Ennis telling Jack "Took me about a year a figure out it was that I shouldn't a let you out a my sights. Too late then by a long, long while."
For me, the movie Ennis is oh so much more poignant - His attempt at vomiting, and his wall punching is this intensive reaction to the seperation that tells oh so much more that the line in the book. I do love Ennis' intense emotion at that moment - gets to me so much more effectively than in the telling.
QuoteFor me, the movie Ennis is oh so much more poignant - His attempt at vomiting, and his wall punching is this intensive reaction to the seperation that tells oh so much more that the line in the book. I do love Ennis' intense emotion at that moment - gets to me so much more effectively than in the telling
Yes, I agree with that. It's even more touching in the movie. In fact, this is the point where I start tearing up for the first time during the movie (not at my first viewing, but at repeated viewings).
But I love that story Ennis is more capable of showing his feelings towards Jack. Same in the "Tell you what - truth is, sometimes I miss you so bad..."-scene. Jack's words in the story are different but Ennis then puts his arm around Jack and pulls him close. And Jack needs this so badly and he deserves it so much. And I love story Ennis for doing it.
Maybe we need two threads: "I love everything Story Ennis" and "I love everything Movie Ennis." I would post on the latter much more often because, like you guys, I love the poignancy of all ME's conflicting emotions. SE is much more emotionally direct. The tender words are nice, but wouldn't fit ME. If ME could express his feelings as openly as SE, he wouldn't be ME.Katherine -
I see Story and Movie as just about two different characters
Why? Would you like to explain this?
Thanks for promoting the thread latjoremeDitto!
I love Ennis stumbling: when he goes after the dumbass mules, right before the first tent scene (that's the best one), at his argument with Alma outside with the girls on the swing ('Need a push?'). Did I forget any stumbling?
I love Ennis for having a growing list of repetitive habits.And let's not forget - shirt/sweater sniffing
-Hunh-ing, Hmm-ing, etc.
-shirt tucking
-bucket kicking
-and now stumbling (somewhat related to the bucket issue).
Ennis, reared by his older brother and sister after their parents drove off the only curve on Dead Horse Road leaving them twenty-four dollars in cash and a two-mortgage ranch, applied at age fourteen for a hardship license that let him make the hour-long trip from the ranch to the high school. The pickup was old, no heater, one windshield wiper and bad tires; when the transmission went there was no money to fix it. He had wanted to be a sophomore, felt the word carried a kind of distinction, but the truck broke down short of it, pitching him directly into ranch work.
. . . .
Ennis, high-arched nose and narrow face, was scruffy and a little cave-chested, balanced a small torso on long, caliper legs, possessed a muscular and supple body made for the horse and for fighting. His reflexes were uncommonly quick and he was farsighted enough to dislike reading anything except Hamley's saddle catalog.
I love Ennis' expression when he thanks Mrs.Twist for the shirts. He's quiet, so he doesn't rouse the attention of John Twist and the moment is between he and Mrs. Twist (does she have a first name?) His eyes are red-rimmed and she knows both that he's the reason behind those two shirts and that he has been crying and will continue to do so. :'(
I love Ennis's distinctly dirty knees in the Happy Tussle scene.
;)
I have asked this a couple of times before, and I have never gotten any kind of an answer, but why do you think the knees of his jeans are so dirty, hunh??
Actually I am looking for a definitive answer...
J
Well... since you asked, I guess I will give a definitive answer... I think they're dirty because they just finished having sex outside and his jeans got dirty from, well, having sex outside. The same is true of Jack's jeans in the flashback scene. By the way, I was not the first person to notice or comment upon these little details, but I do find them great little touches. This, I think is Lee's way of hinting at Proulx's line "They never talked about the sex, let it happen, at first only in the tent at night, then in the full daylight with the hot sun striking down, and at evening in the fire glow..."
... Nothing marred it, even the knowledge that Ennis would not then embrace him face to face because he did not want to see nor feel that it was Jack he held. And maybe, he thought, they'd never got much farther than that. Let be, let be.
I love Ennis because however he feels, whether confused, fearful, angry or calm, feeling sad, feeling guilty, in failure or success, in grief or joy, he does his best and though his best isn't always "good enough", he's continues to try, he continues to learn. He is his humble self completely. I love that about him.
Rayn
I love how Ennis, upon decending the stairs at Jack's parents house and reentering the kitchen, made a slight and mere jesture with the rolled up shirts, as if to present his treasure to Jack's Mom and say, without speaking, 'may I have this?'.
I love all of the above. I love the way Ennis coughs, cig in mouth, when he's packing up the horse to head to the pup tent the first time. See? I love Ennis so much that I am thrilled to hear him cough!
TAnd here's a little one: I love Ennis for the way his chest heaves after kissing Jack in the reunion scene.
I mean, if Ennis didn't realise that he was hopelessly in love with Jack at that point, then he wouldn't have known it either if it was tattooed on his forehead ... or if a giant box labelled "Ennis is in love with Jack" hit him hard over the head!
*sigh* All those butterflies in his stomach.... :D
QuoteI love the way Ennis coughs, cig in mouth, when he's packing up the horse to head to the pup tent the first time. See? I love Ennis so much that I am thrilled to hear him cough!
Latjoreme,..Ennis' coughs is just the sexiest i ever heard in my 23 years on earth...
that deep vibrating sounds...
BTW: Noviani, I think we didn't meet before. So welcome to BetterMost. Have a cup of coffee, piece of cherry cake?
hi Penthesilea,
cherry cake please. don't do coffee.
Speaking of coughs, I like the one where Ennis is eating apple pie in the bus station and Cassie comes in. You see her stop in her tracks and turn around when he clears his throat. She knew that man's cough! ;)
uuh, uuh ;). The correct answer would be: I'll take a cup a coffee, but I can't eat no cake just now. But don't worry, must be the well-known Brokeback-fever that got you confused :).
I love Ennis because he cannot love himself. Just as Jack did.
"This aint
no little thing goin on here."
I love Ennis because he showed me the way.
Thanks for pointing this out, Meryl. I never noticed it before. It's quite low, so it slipped my attention. But it didn't slip Cassie's attention, like you said.
I love Ennis caressing Jack's arm in the motel scene.