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TJ:

--- Quote from: Roland on May 06, 2006, 04:37:41 pm ---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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Roland, this outfit, aka "BetterMost Forums," is somewhat of a "blessing" to me in that some of my stored in lost places memory is being brought back to the front. Some of the connections in my brain were gotten out of alignment when I was hit in the head several times in 1993. I don't have any hatred for the man who did it out of hate for me; but, I am glad that I have not seen him in several years.

In a certain discussion, a person mentioned "Kansas" and I had some memories when I taught school in Norwich, KS during the 1965-66 school term. And about 8 years later, I saw one of my first students at a Mall in Oklahoma City around 100 miles away from the town on the SW plains of Kansas.

Sheriff Roland:
TRJ - We're really off topic on this, but some ancient memories came back to revisit me this past week too. A former student (I've been teaching at the same elementary school for 18 years) came to register her kid to begin jr. kindergarden next year. Recognized the face, but not the name.  She remembered me (by name, I think - I didn't always look this old! - Ha!).

TJ:

--- Quote from: Roland on May 06, 2006, 05:56:40 pm ---TRJ - We're really off topic on this, but some ancient memories came back to revisit me this past week too. A former student (I've been teaching at the same elementary school for 18 years) came to register her kid to begin jr. kindergarden next year. Recognized the face, but not the name.  She remembered me (by name, I think - I didn't always look this old! - Ha!).

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I created a thread of discussion for educators and former educators.

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=1229.0

In the school year, 1970-71, I was a substitute teacher in 2 school systems in Oklahoma, in Claremore and in Tulsa. When I moved into the undergrad dorm on campus mid semester when I was a grad theo student a Oral Roberts University in 1975, a person who had been in a class I had taught at Claremore remembered me. I did not remember him at all; but, he also remembered that he had given me a difficult time because I was a sub. He was worried that I might try to get even. Even if I had remembered, I would not have tried to do anything about it.

TJ:
I wish I had a "script" which contains all of the dialog of the film and then I could compare that with the book's dialog and narrative.

I recently saw a TV program where they sorta used "subtitles" under a person to show what he was thinking. I forget what show that was; but, I think it was on one of the cable channels.

I think that it would be a unique art form to be able to read the book's narrative comments (and/or what the actor was thinking) on the screen as part of the movie during certain scenes.

twistedude:
Some very memorable ones that didn't make it to film:

"littlre darlin"
"That's one of the two things I need right now."
(Jack and Ennis making love by the fire on one of the later tripS, talking about their families as they get physically more and more intimate, "undoing buttons" "put his Cold hand between Ennis's warm thighs," and then finallty they tumble into the dirt, the sparts alighting on their clothes, "not for the first time"): "One thing never changed: the brilliant charge of their infrequent couplings was darkened by the sense of time flying, never enough time, never enough..."
All those incredigble lines in the motel in which Jack and Ennis assure each other that they couldn't be queer, because they have wives and children...but home was never like this.

In other words...I think a little more sex is in order. Keep the romasnce ( little in the story), put the sex back...

MAKE YOUR OWN ACCURTATE SCRIPT FROM "Story to Screenplay" It's fun.

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