...you been going up to Wyoming all these years ...

[fernly]

Thanks, guys! Glad you liked the image.

Meryl, isn't there a stunningly beautiful and sad quartet in Cosi Fan Tutti?...seems like there'd be more than one opportunity for something like that in BBM, whether or not the characters know they're all singing at the same time.

Elle - I am saying a lot these days, it's just that it's mostly all in the fanfic I'm writing.

[Meryl]

Meryl, isn't there a stunningly beautiful and sad quartet in Cosi Fan Tutti?...seems like there'd be more than one opportunity for something like that in BBM, whether or not the characters know they're all singing at the same time.

Yes, the quartet in Cosi comes near the end, after the ladies discover they've been tricked into falling for each other's fiances.  They go back to their original lovers, and all four sing a harmonious toast to their upcoming marriage vows.  But one of the four, Guglielmo, can't swallow his anger entirely, and his vocal line becomes a jumpy and emotional counterpoint to the others.

Off the top of my head, I can't think of a quartet in the standard rep that uses the situation of two couples onstage at the same time, who are actually in different physical locations, with two true lovers thinking of each other while they're with someone else.  It would be an utterly cool scene to do.

[brokebackjack]

surely SOMEONE has something to say about this fine thread??

[Front-Ranger]

I think you just said it, friend!!

[brokebackjack]

Wow!  I'll just echo what Elle said... This really is a stunning image to imagine!
 

Let me echo you atz...stunning visual!

[Front-Ranger]

Hi, Tremblayans and fellow/sister long time BetterMostians,

We been going up to BetterMost all these months now. What keeps us coming back, LOL? It's a very strange . . . and wonderful . . . phenomenon. I couldn't get thru the day w/o touching bases with my BetterMost friends! Now, I hurry home from vacations LOL because I need to get online again! What keeps you coming back??

I thought I'd just re-ask the original question that started this thread. Nowadays, I have a new, sad reason for coming back. It's because I've shared, not only the good times, but the bad times with my friends, after tragically losing Heath, and a devoted Brokie friend Jackie, in the space of two days in late January. There's nothing like a shared history to cement friendships. Thank you, fellow BetterMostians, for being there. 

[optom3]

Opera or ballet, I just like the direction yer goin'. 

One of the most memorable pas de deux I ever saw was for two men, performed to the slow movement of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto.  In the age of AIDS, it was tremendously moving.

Could not agree more.
I saw the version of Swan lake where all the swans were males.
Completely amazing,stunning,you name it.I used to do ballet untill 18 and never thought a male version of that ballet would work,
I was so wrong.
Guess that's why I keep comming back here.People with open minds,open hearts and of course a certain fascination with a certain film.

[Artiste]

What would you change in the movie/story if you could? For the short story I would change nothing, it is a magnificent achievement which stands alone.

For the film, I would try to balance the additional material inserted by the screenwriters about Jack's heterosexuality with equally measured material about Jack's closeted gay activities when he was away from Ennis. I believe this would lead to a more balanced and truer version of the life of a closeted man such as Jack.

Additionally, I would have Ang Lee leave in the final cut the brief and humorous exchange created by McMurtry/ Ossana in the 1972 "Blue Parka" camping scene. Ennis arrives late to meet Jack, he smiles and shows Jack a surprise he has for him in a paper sack. It is a can of beans.

 

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Interesting!


Hugs!