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"Great lines from book that DID make it to film"

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Sheriff Roland:
As IMDb BBM is slowly but surely imploding, I thought it was time for the revival of another (IMO) standard thread from the past:

Looking for descriptions (preferably) from the book that were beautifully portrayed in the movie - one thought per post please

"...a thousand ewes and their lambs flowed up the trail like dirty water through the timber and out above the tree line ..."

Your turn  :D

vkm91941:


"....He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly thorough his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands..."      :'(

vkm91941:
OK I have another if no one else does.....here goes...

"....What Jack remembered and craved in a way he could neither help nor understand was the time that distant summer on Brokeback when Ennis had come up behind him and pulled him close, the silent embrace satisfying some shared and sexless hunger..."

TJ:

--- Quote from: vkm91941 on May 05, 2006, 04:28:22 am ---
"....He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly thorough his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands..."      :'(

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Those lines were connected with these from the book at the time of the 4 year reunion in 1967.


--- Quote ---The door opened again a few inches and Alma stood in the narrow light.

   What could he say? "Alma, this is Jack Twist, Jack, my wife Alma." His chest was heaving. He could smell Jack -- the intensely familiar odor of cigarettes, musky sweat and a faint sweetness like grass, and with it the rushing cold of the mountain. "Alma," he said, "Jack and me ain't seen each other in four years." As if it were a reason. He was glad the light was dim on the landing but did not turn away from her.
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Many theme elements in Annie Proulx's original story are repeated at least one time and sometimes more. "Memory" is one of the key themes in the book.

Sheriff Roland:

--- Quote from: TJ on May 06, 2006, 04:01:53 pm --- "Memory" is one of the key themes in the book.

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Thanks for that one TJ - you're right of course

But then isn't the success of the book, and the movie the product of being so darn real? As is memories being so important in life.

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