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serious crayons:
Nakymaton, I couldn't agree more with everything you said. When Ennis says "if this thing grabs hold of us at the wrong place, wrong time," he's not speculating -- it pretty much just did!

(Why isn't there a drooling cowboy smiley icon?)

Kd5000:
Phillip, I believe it was Osanna who said in an Advocate interview, regarding whether Jack died via an accident or gay bashed, "well what could be worse then not knowing the true fate of the person you loved most." I am paraphrasing. Just as bad would be getting notified that the person you loved most has expired via a returned postcard. Nobody to show up at the door and let you know. No sympathetic phone call. Just bureaucratic coldness.

Then again, I was a bureacrat and I had to call ppl to "verify" if their son or daughter had past away.  Not an easy thing to do. You can only be so delicate about those things...I always felt reptilian after doing it.

Yes Becky, you do pay attn to details.  The number at the post office???   ;)

By the way, I thought that the post office where Ennis gets the notification of death looked like the same one he always used including mailing back the "you bet" postcard.  I don't remember him inside the postoffice. I bet it was a storefront they hijacked in Canada and put up a Riverton Postoffice sign...

nakymaton:
The thing about the post office in the movie... even though it doesn't look like the real Riverton post office, it looks exactly like the very generic 1960s-or-so vintage post office in the town where I grew up. (Well, the name and zip code were different. ;) ) But, to me, it looked like generic small town America. So it looked perfect to me, even if the real Riverton seems to have a much older (and larger) downtown area than the movie Riverton does.

MaineWriter:

--- Quote from: Kd5000 on May 02, 2006, 04:38:35 pm ---
By the way, I thought that the post office where Ennis gets the notification of death looked like the same one he always used including mailing back the "you bet" postcard.  I don't remember him inside the postoffice. I bet it was a storefront they hijacked in Canada and put up a Riverton Postoffice sign...

--- End quote ---

He is inside the post office when he writes the "You Bet" postcard.

Nakymaton: I agree...looks exactly like a rural post office...I have been in many of them over the years. From the pics and other things I have seen, "movie Riverton" is a much smaller town that real life Riverton.

TJ:

--- Quote from: lnicoll on May 02, 2006, 04:50:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: Kd5000 on May 02, 2006, 04:38:35 pm ---
By the way, I thought that the post office where Ennis gets the notification of death looked like the same one he always used including mailing back the "you bet" postcard.  I don't remember him inside the postoffice. I bet it was a storefront they hijacked in Canada and put up a Riverton Postoffice sign...

--- End quote ---

He is inside the post office when he writes the "You Bet" postcard.

Nakymaton: I agree...looks exactly like a rural post office...I have been in many of them over the years. From the pics and other things I have seen, "movie Riverton" is a much smaller town that real life Riverton.

--- End quote ---

When the book Ennis wrote back "you bet," he gave the Riverton address of where he lived. But, the movie Ennis only wrote his "Ennis Del Mar" and "Riverton, Wyoming" in the return address section of the front of the card. The (movie prop) card which Jack sent didn't even have his address on it. How did Ennis know Jack's address in the movie? The book card-from-Jack had Jack's Childress, Texas address on it.

I have seen many small town post offices and even city branch POs which resembled the movie PO. I have a cousin who was the postmaster of a small town PO here in Oklahoma.

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