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"Did your foks run you off?"

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RouxB:
I never saw it that way. But I don't see that either of them were that aware or in touch with their sexuality at that point in time. Why at that first meeting would Jack assume that Ennis was gay and his parents kicked him out for that? Ennis has spoken 5 words up to this point and won't even make eye contact. I think there is alot of projection of motive based on what we know about the entire story rather than the story (movie) up to that particular time.

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TJ:
Let's put it this way: There is lots of dialog in the movie which is not supported by Annie Proulx's original story.

In the book, Ennis and Jack shake hand INSIDE Aguirre's trailer office. In the movie, they don't even do that until the leave the office.

I think the line of dialog is funny; but, when it comes to the telling of Ennis's folks' vehicle accident, the story introduces that when Annie Proulx describes his situation just before Jack drives up in his truck.

David:
Very true.   Larry McMurtry says on the DVD interview that the screenplay was twice as long as the original book.   Still I am amazed that 98% of the original dialog is woven into the movie.  I can see why a few things were moved around so they could film better.

TJ:
One of thesed days I am going to take a break from the internet and watch the DVD and copy down all of the dialog that is in the movie.

There is a lot of movie dialog which is close to what is in the movie; but, even then, a great deal of that is not the same place as in the book and not even in the same scene as the book.

Some of the dialog that is said up in the mountains on the 2nd night of the 1967 reunion was actually said in the Motel Siesta in Riverton the night before. There is nothing in the book about what was actually said on the 2nd night. In fact, there is nothing in the book to state they actually went camping for a few days; Jack only suggested that they do that and when Ennis hears the phone ring in the next room, he picks up the phone in their motel room.

The only time that Lureen talks in the original short story is when Ennis talks to her own the phone.

moremojo:
Even though Ennis was not run off by his parents (and may not have been, had they lived), he was essentially run off by his siblings, and seems to have little if any relationship with them for the remainder of the story.

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