Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond > IMDb Remarkable Writings Rewound
Deliberate Classical References and another 'Jack, I swear' -- by CaseyCornelius
TOoP/Bruce:
by malina-5 6 hours ago (Fri Dec 15 2006 04:23:33 )
oh... this is beautiful and stunningly appropriate to the final scenes, as is the whole comparison to Virgil:
<<Aeneas says to Dido's ghost, "I swear by every oath that hell can muster, I swear I left you against my will. The law of God--the law that sends me now through darkness, bramble, rot and profound night--unyielding drove me; nor could I have dreamed that in my leaving I would hurt you so". >>
I read a fragment of this months and months ago, in response to one of our ubiquitous queries re: the 'I swear', but the whole passage, though one couldn't imagine Ennis uttering so many words, is just so... fitting. It fits like a glove.
"This ain't no little thing that's happenin here", all this very multi-faceted culture that's growing up around the BBM experience. I'll always be a little envious and regretful that I wasn't here right at the very beginning, so I'm grateful to have all these classic threads reposted. I know that's looking backward instead of forward, but it still makes you a 'true oracle' for real in my books, TOoP.
...it's easier to change the sheets/ than change what's in your head
- The Ne-er-do-Wells
Brown Eyes:
Bumping for the sake of happy nostalgia! But, also because the idea of BBM and Greek Tragedies or Classical references has come up again recently in Open Forum.
8)
Front-Ranger:
I was just reading in Mark Asquith's Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain and Postcards that Jack's shooting of an eagle the year before echoes the same act by Hercules, who was punished for the shooting by his lover Hylas disappearing, leaving Hercules with only a shirt for remembrance. I'll have to read the story of Hercules and Hylas in depth!
TOoP/Bruce:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 11, 2010, 11:01:33 am ---I was just reading in Mark Asquith's Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain and Postcards that Jack's shooting of an eagle the year before echoes the same act by Hercules, who was punished for the shooting by his lover Hylas disappearing, leaving Hercules with only a shirt for remembrance. I'll have to read the story of Hercules and Hylas in depth!
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What an interesting observation! I will have to read more about that as well!
Monika:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 11, 2010, 11:01:33 am ---I was just reading in Mark Asquith's Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain and Postcards that Jack's shooting of an eagle the year before echoes the same act by Hercules, who was punished for the shooting by his lover Hylas disappearing, leaving Hercules with only a shirt for remembrance. I'll have to read the story of Hercules and Hylas in depth!
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wow, very interesting
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