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How Did Jack Die?
JT:
I still think it was the bashing. He could be driving when the wheel blew up. That happens often in back roads. Then when he removes the rim, with a tire iron of course, but before he repairs the tire, he had the worst stroke of luck ever. Someome (perhaps killer clowns...LOL) who knew his nature came along with a tire iron, or maybe Jack's own tire iron, and beat him to death. Then report the "accident" hours later to the police to make themselves seem innocent. And if there were no eyewitnesses it would seem like an accident. Maybe were taking this subject a little too seriously.
ekeby:
I'm late to this discussion, but have to add my two cents. In the movie (more than from the story) I got the distinct impression that what Ennis thinks happened is what actually happened. Lureen's sing-song, rote telling of Jack's end is what gives Ennis that idea. When she hears that Jack and Ennis herded sheep on Brokeback back in '63, we feel that she now understands that Ennis Del Mar was Jack's main man. And we feel--or at least I did--that Ennis knows that she knows. They are talking in code to one another, and they both know it.
welliwont:
Bumping for more votes. ;)
Shakesthecoffecan:
From the bits of cut sceens I have seen in the trailer, etc, the story I have developed is that Jack did have a flat tire, and Randall gave him a ride to a garage and dropped him off, there was some display of affection shown and the mechanics picked up on it. Jack rode with them back to the truck and was lynched there and the tire was purposly exploded to cover the crime.
In the story, L.D. Newson dies before Jack does, and Lureen inherits the business, Jack getting some vague managerial title.
Once I saw a post on the yahoo board that the split rims Proulx would be refering to were no longer manufactured after about the late 60's and the last truck we saw him in was later than that.
That's my two cents.
Scott6373:
If you have the DVD, play that scene in stop frame. It is Jake in the scene, so as far as the film is concerned it WAS a hate crime, because that's what Ang decided, and we can't really change that. The only point of contention, is whether the scene actually happened or was it an imagined scene by Ennis.
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