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serious crayons:

--- Quote from: isabelle on May 30, 2006, 11:22:24 am ---And then you get people wondering how they could "get down to business" SO early on, they don't see it coming. But they are the same who say it was too long/slow!

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Great point, Isabelle! They think it's too quick AND too slow. Not enough happens and (in that one scene, anyway) too much happens!

Lynne:

--- Quote from: ednbarby on May 30, 2006, 08:35:55 am ---I understand what you're saying, Lynne - I understand finding the first tent scene abrupt on one's first viewing.  I didn't, but maybe that's because I've experienced something very much like it (though it was against the inside of a door in someone's house and not in a tent in the mountains  ;)).

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Now I'm jealous...maybe one day  ;)


--- Quote from: latjoreme on May 30, 2006, 09:40:30 am ---Tell you what, though, lately when I watch it I always think it seems way too short and quick. I think, what, they already have long sideburns? What, the post-divorce scene already? Twenty years in 134 minutes seems to fly past.

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No scene makes a bigger impression on me about the passage of time than Ennis spooning Jack in the tent during the night after the 'Sometimes I miss you so much...' conversation.  I just want to freeze it right there....rips my heart out every single time.

Ellemeno:

--- Quote from: ednbarby on May 25, 2006, 03:32:51 pm ---I have a four-year-old who knows about it, too.  But y'all know those stories by now.  :)

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My three year old knows the story of Jack and Ennis too: They love each other so much, and have so much fun together, and are so sad when they can't be together.  She has heard the (enhanced) soundtrack a bazillion times in the car (I have added songs like "Streets of Laredo," "Sweet Melissa," "Quizas, Quizas, Quizas," and she can sing along with all of them.  She also loves "I Will Never Let You Go," and knows that the sad-sounding songs are for when Ennis and Jack are sad, that the pretty instrumentals are mostly from the happy time on the mountain."  Today she told me that she once had a baby named "Mountain."

Ellemeno:

--- Quote from: nakymaton on May 25, 2006, 10:36:31 pm ---Well, he hasn't watched it.

But he's seen stills of Jack and Ennis -- he sits on my lap when I read computer messages, so he's seen plenty of avatars. ;D And he looks at the pictures on the liner notes to CDs, and always asks who everyone is. So he's been able to recognize Jack and Ennis for a long time. (And he's seen pictures of the dozy embrace plenty of times.)

And I admit to smirking a bit when he yelled: "Mommy! Look! There's Jack! There's Ennis!" in front of the Wal-mart DVD display
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These are all our experience too.  I used to tell the story to Miranda as if Ennis and Jack were real, and I have adjusted that to they are in a story, because I started having conscience pricks when I would be heading out to see the movie and she would ask me about going to see Jack and Ennis.

henrypie:
Clarissa,
When my sister was your daughter's age, she had an imaginary friend named "City Hall."

Oh why oh why do we lose our baby ideas along with our baby fat?
(My sister's other imaginary friends were Bobby, Broblin, Ountkin and Gaunty.)

Perhaps they and Mountain are all romping in imaginary baby heaven.

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