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twistedude:
It's right after Ennis takes charge, and flips Jack over--Jack is I think a bit surprised, but I'm not sure. Speculation: in the few seconds since Ennis has started displaying passion, Jack may have thought he would take the role Ennis winds up taking--your guess is as good as mine.  Hr doesn't stay surprised long, that's for sure.

TJ:

--- Quote from: julie01 on May 06, 2006, 04:23:08 am ---It's right after Ennis takes charge, and flips Jack over--Jack is I think a bit surprised, but I'm not sure. Speculation: in the few seconds since Ennis has started displaying passion, Jack may have thought he would take the role Ennis winds up taking--your guess is as good as mine.  Hr doesn't stay surprised long, that's for sure.

--- End quote ---

While the initial "passion" in the movie is limited to a few seconds, being rather rushed, there is deepened intimacy inside the bedroll after Ennis joins Jack "under the covers," according to Annie Proulx's original story.

I just feel that Annie Proulx's Jack had felt that Ennis had an erection, too; and his taking of Ennis's left hand and putting it on his won "hard-on," let Ennis know "Buddy, I am just as horny as you are!"

But, Ennis was a "take-charge" kind a guy and he wanted to be first! And, according to the AP story, the only one who undid his belt buckle and lowered his jeans was Ennis.

I think that Jack was probably sleeping naked to begin with and that's because I have been "officially educated" about keeping warmer in a bedroll while camping out by experts on the subject. I used to be a senior leader of a boys camping group sponsored by a church denomination and the camping part of the program was based on the Boy Scouts of America program. I attended a 3 day workship which was sort of like one sees on reality TV these days. We got training while camping out. The preacher/leader who told us about the way to keep the warmest said his wife didn't like the idea of a guy sleeping naked in a sleeping bag. (Why should she care? He was not sharing with another guy, anyway.)

twistedude:
TJ: but you are talking about the short story, and I am talking about ther movie--which is much more detailed, and somewhat different.  I know there are those who dsiasagree with me, but I feel Jack has been cruising Ennis, movie Ennis, from the moment he laid eyes on him. It doesn't make sense for you to cotradictct my "Ennis" statement by saying it's Ennis who takes down his pants , when it's clear that in the movie, Jack sheds his coat and uindoes his belt buckle before Ennis turns him down, or touches anyone's pants. The "deepened intimacy" is also from the short story. After J ands E are settled down in the bedroll or blankets, Jack gives Ennis one last evaluating look before he closes his eyes until the both sit up.

The question is--in the movie, does Jack say "Ennis" when Ennis roughly tuns him toward the canvas?

On the other two points, I assume everyone who has a good fullscreen and player agrees with me?

TJ:
In this discussion of Full-Screen and Wide-Screen DVD versions, I would like to ask which kind of camera and camera lens was used to make this movie.

If one were to overlap, aka lay one FS photo over the very same WS photo, matching exactly what is in the center of both, I think there would be blank spots in each corner. But, apparently the way that it was originally filmed, there would be no blank corners and that should fit a regular TV screen.

Some of the full-screen version photos seem to have been made for a movie or TV screen with the dimensions of a square. I remember some old TV way back in the late 1940s and early 1950s where the TV tube's actual screen was completely round as in a full circle and a square picture was seen from the front of the TV cabinet. The original TV screen measurement was actually from the diameter measurement of the TV tube.

twistedude:
Question not worth answering, huh?

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