Minute Detail - IMO The Best Line Delivery in the Movie

[MaineWriter]

Actually, it's a pair of khaki shorts and a white tee shirt that says VERSATILE across the front. Jack gave him both, the versatile comes from a sales promotion at Newsome's, but it can be read two ways, I think 

[rightstar]

Well, to get back to the topic now, my favorite and the one where I start crying every time is the "You know it could be like this, just like this, always". one  there's something about the way he varies the inflections between the first part and the second that has a world of longing in it to my ears. And that fact that it couldnt ]be like this, even if Ennis agreed to live with him, in the world they lived in, always makes me cry.. Also, I love the way jack rephrases (course Annie Proulx is responsible for that) so the Never enough time, never enough line gets me too. Tell ya what, the truth is Jake/Jack could read the phone book and I'd probably end up sobbing at this point.....

[ednbarby]

First (though not necessarily in this order), because I love it whenever one of them says the other's name.

Mmmm-yeah.  I love it whenever one of them says the other's name.  That's when you know it's a believable love story, too - when you ache to hear each character do that, and it seems like they do it way too seldom.

Lessee if I can name all of them (and I'm sure all y'all will help me out if I can't):

Your parents just stop at Ennis?
Nice to know you, Ennis Del Mar.
What in hell happened, Ennis?
We gotta stick this out, Jack.
Jack's an old fishin' buddy.
Jack F***in' Twist!
You're a real thinker, there, Jack.
Jack F***in' Twist.
I'm not you, Ennis.
I can't stand this no more, Jack.
I feel awful bad about Jack.  Can't begin to say how bad I feel.
Jack, I swear.

Yep.  Way too seldom.  Never enough time.  Never enough.

[rtprod]

Leslie,

Happy to hear you think of Ennis as versatile in one capacity since he makes up for it with rigidity in so many others. 

All is not lost for him yet, it seems.

rt

[serious crayons]

please still keep him in plaids or white tees, rather than tank tops. 

Gee, I don't know, he looked pretty good in that tank top and pajamas in the bedroom scene ...

Oh! I have to add that my other favorite line is "I'm just sending up a prayer of thanks." That, and "I can't stand this no more, Jack," are as close as Ennis ever comes to verbally expressing ... you know.

[MaineWriter]

I love the prayer of thanks line, and the smile he makes as he looks up at the sky.

[serious crayons]

Mmmm ... me too.

And then the little winking smile he gives Jack after "for you forgettin your harmonica."

Sigh. It's the last purely happy moment in the movie.

[MaineWriter]

Sigh. It's the last purely happy moment in the movie.

So true...because right after that is the Rich & Earl story and for me, it all ends there 

[serious crayons]

"No, I -- I told you it ain't gonna be that way" is probably my LEAST favorite line, not because of its delivery or writing or anything, but because it is the tipping point of the movie. After that, everything just gets progressively sadder and sadder and sadder.

[reannawrites]

I have to add this for sure:
 'Tell you what...Truth is, sometimes I miss you so much, I can hardly stand it.'  I thought he just did it so perfectly...the right pauses, the right breath.

The entire lake scene starting from 'Never enough time, never enough'  Sometimes when I'm sitting around at work or at home or some place I can suddenly hear the lines they way they both say them...They leave such an imprint on the mind. So distinctive and so deeply heartfelt...

Some of the other line deliveries I like:

'One curve in the road in 43 miles and they miss it'

'Never taught me a thing. Never once come to see me ride.'

'She got lucky.'

They way Jack says 'Alright' in a soft voice, after Ennis snaps 'I don't need your money, I ain't in the poorhouse.'  There was just something very vulnerable about it.

Jack to Aguirre 'Nothin' up on Brokeback?'    Jake's face in this scene.....

'I got a boy. Eight months old. Smiles a lot.'

'Red-lined it all the way, couldn't get here fast enough.'

'Old Brokeback got us good, don't it.'

'Long as we can ride it. Ain't no reins on this one.'

I'll stop here before I go through the whole film