Introducing the "Jack with Ennis" Fan Fic Game - the BetterMost Edition

[Dagi]

Thanks Susie, and everybody.  The 1000 mark sort of crept up on me.  I didn't see it coming.   

Sorry that I've not been here on our thread much the last couple of days.  After such a bruising experience in my travels to other threads, I think I'll start sticking closer to home.

Gary

Congratulations, sweetheart. Although I guess you would have preferred not to be forced to post so much the last days, I reckon.

I too will stick closer to home again. And I'm thankful I do have a home here.

Dagi

[Toycoon]

Dagi and Gary,
I saw your posts on "Dear BetterMost" and I must say I was saddened to hear about what happened. My thought is as long as the pictures are not pornographic and the people in the photos are over the legal age, I don't see that there should be a problem.

I found the entire issue ironic considering the content of the film that brought us together in the first place. I still know people that will not see that "gay cowboy movie" because they "don't believe in the message" or whatever. My brother is one of those people despite the fact that he has two gay brothers!

[cwby30]

Afternoon.

Well, watch out Ennis! Here comes another woman.  Out of the frying pan....

What about Jack? Why aren't you looking for him? Still in denial?

You're killing me here! But, still...

Thanks again. 

[Dagi]

Mount Rushmore? Does not really sound like a shortcut on the way to Jack. But that might be because he doesn't know yet that he's on the way to Jack.

I like Millie. And with her caring and food providing nature I guess Littlewing finally managed to smuggle herself into the story!

Thanks, you two, for that series! I love it!

Dagi

[Dagi]

In my 1,000th post, I congratulated myself on my 1,000th post!  Hmmmmm maybe I'm a little too self absorbed!  Oh well, if you don't blow your own trumpet, who will?

Susie 

 

[moremojo]

Not only are we here together to celebrate a film that is dismissed by some who have wrong-headed ideas about sex, but Jack and Ennis were only 19 when they first met up on Brokeback.  Now it just so happens that Jack and Ennis were masculine looking guys in the traditional sense of that term -- and of course Jake and Heath weren't really 19, but only playing 19 -- but a huge percentage of 19 year old men are very boyish looking.

Very true. I work as a mail clerk at a major American university, and each year I'm astonished sometimes by the youthful appearances of many of the incoming freshmen (who are normally entering the university at eighteen). When I myself was eighteen, I wasn't struck by the youth of my peers, but as I grow into middle age, that gap is becoming much more visible to me.

Ennis and Jack in the original story are described as being significantly different physically than how Heath and Jake portray them in the film. They are far less glamorous, and I for one do picture them, in the beginning, as being fairly boyish in appearance (especially Jack). One of the filmmakers' challenges was in finding actors who could convincingly portray characters who, at different times in the story, would be both younger and older (by a significant degree) than they themselves were. Actors in their mid-twenties could probably have pulled this off more effectively than actors who were, say, nineteen (it should be noted, however, that in the published screenplay, Ennis is explicitly described, in an authorial aside, as being twenty when we first meet him).

[Toycoon]

Ellie was a pleasant distraction from Ennis' immediate concerns of housing and employment. He was grateful to have someone nice to talk to on the long journey but he couldn't really admit to Millie that he actually had no place to go in South Dakota. No prospects or plans in place at all. He started to feel terribly alone, vulnerable and began to worry again about his future. Ellie sensed Ennis' discomfort and pretended to doze off to give him some space."Maybe he'll open up later," she thought.

As the bus finally neared the Wyoming border, Ennis noticed a large road sign that read "Welcome to Crook County, Wyoming- Including the towns of Moorcraft, Sundance, Hulett and Lightning Flat. Ennis' heart leaped in his chest. "Lightning Flat? That's where Jack's folks live,"  he remembered fondly. Moorcraft was the next scheduled rest stop on the trip.

When the Greyhound bus pulled into the Circle K parking lot, several of the passengers got off and went inside to buy food and use the rest room. Millie told Ennis she was going in to use the ladies' room. He smiled and nodded.

Fifteen minutes passed and the passengers began to file into the bus: the elderly couple, the lady and her little boy, the colored man, Millie and finally, the driver. The driver waited a few more minutes then shut the doors and drove away, without Ennis.

[Luvlylittlewing]

Susie said that you could have me BBQ OMT again if you'd like.  After reading that story about the dream I was firing up the coals.  

Gary

    

[Luvlylittlewing]

Mornin'.

Well, South Dakota??!! Guess Ennis still doesn't have it in him to go looking for Jack... and the postcard won't be delivered... yet... and Ennis won't be stepping off the bus in Lightning Flat any time soon.  Four years? Hope not. 

Interesting twist. Let's see how they work this out, and get it right for a change.

Thanks again. 

Thanks, cwby30!  Stay with us! 

[Luvlylittlewing]

Hmmm  What to do in Mount Rushmore?  ....oh, I know!  How about...going to see the monument?    Well, that's what I'd do anyway. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore  Just thought I'd add this just in case Susie and Dagi aren't familiar with Mount Rushmore.


Millie sounds like a nice girl, and she seems helpful.  Ennis obviously needs help, and he needs a friend, but I'm hoping he doesn't get involved with Millie.     And how's Jack supposed to find him in Mount Rushmore?

Gary

P.S.  Thank you Littlewing and Toycoon for keeping things going here.  It's aways nice to have a home to come back to.

Ahhh such sweet words of encouragement, Gary.  This is your home and we plan to make it comfortable for you!