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Project! We Need Pictures
iluvchocolate:
Front-ranger and toast, allot of the small,older farm buildings, here in this part of the province anyhow are run down to this kind of shape. Many buildings are allot like the Twist farm. When approaching the site on the highway all you can really see is the green tarp that is now covering the roof. I think of it wasn't for the green tarp we would have missed the house completely
I hope.... no I pray, that the owner of the land is fixing it up, trying to preserve the site. If not for the sake of BBM, for the sake of the history that lies in the house not just with the making of brokeback, but the history that started I would think close to 80 years ago.
horo35:
And here is the JT Bar that Ennis walks in front of to make the phone call to Laureen. Notice you can also see the Childress dance hall (bank) across the street. I'm seen in the 3rd pic walking towards the imaginary phone booth to make that call! :laugh: The second pic shows the surrounding area that Ennis walks by. All of this is in Rockyford, AB
Toast:
Thank You Horo and Luv.
This is so cool
I love the tour you are giving us.
You almost have me thinking I can be Ang Lee and his cinematographer.
If one had a portable DVD player and a couple of buddies in cowboy hats, you could have so much fun getting the angles right.
You are also making me realize how much of the film is actually Ennis scenes.
The film is really about Ennis.
Toast
ps the deep blue sky in the street scene reminded of one of the sadder paragraphs in the story:
Annie Proulx wrote:
Going up, the day was fine but the trail deep-drifted and slopping wet at the margins. They left it to wind through a slashy cut, leading the horses through brittle branchwood, Jack, the same eagle feather in his old hat, lifting his head in the heated noon to take the air scented with resinous lodgepole, the dry needle duff and hot rock, bitter juniper crushed beneath the horses' hooves. Ennis, weather-eyed, looked west for the heated cumulus that might come up on such a day but the boneless blue was so deep, said Jack, that he might drown looking up.
I can tell that you have seen the movie and enjoyed it.
But have you read the short story as well?
horo35:
--- Quote from: Toast on August 21, 2006, 10:30:32 pm ---
I can tell that you have seen the movie and enjoyed it.
But have you read the short story as well?
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Yes I have read the story...I actually have the book. Although I wish I would've read the story 1st THEN seen the movie because I think I would've appreciated it all the more. Unfortunately I never heard of the book until I saw media reports on the movie.
nakymaton:
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Gneiss rock, meryl. ;) :D
(Actually, I think the composition of this photo is particularly gorgeous, too. And the one with the fence, and the one with the barn in the foreground, and the one with the mist...)
horo, those are really cool photos of the movie sites. :)
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