Here are the things I noticed on my viewing last night (Roux - so cool that we were both viewing it last night, perhaps even at the same time since I didn't start watching until about 10 p.m. EST) that I hadn't before:
- In the first tent scene, right before the fateful hand grab, pull, and placement, the camera pans from the edge of the tent (sort of the wall of it Jack's facing) to Jack, as if, maybe, to show how much of the bedroll was going unused because Jack was butted up against Ennis.
- When Aguirre came to tell Jack about his Uncle Harold, it occurred to me that ordinarily Jack would have come down from the mountain for a few days to see him in the hospital, but he didn't this time because he didn't want to leave Ennis. This seems painfully, embarassingly obvious now, but it had never crossed my mind before. Of course that would be the reason Aguirre would be sent - basically to let Jack know so he could get over there and say his good-byes. Otherwise, why send someone just to give him bad news about which he could do nothing? But by the time Aguirre speaks to Jack, they both know that ain't happening and why - Jack just doesn't know that Aguirre knows that, too, hence the way he looks at Aguirre kind of strangely when he doesn't pursue it with him. I realized just last night that the strange look wasn't because he wondered if Aguirre knew about him and Ennis - it was because he wondered why he didn't try at all to persuade him to go see his uncle in the hospital.
And for the first time ever, I also started tearing up very early on - at the scene when they're chopping up the tree trunk together and they're wearing The Shirts.