TOTW 16/08: When did you fall in love with the characters?

[Penthesilea]

Hi BetterMostians

Let me first say thank you for the wide participation on the Confetti Quiz last week. We managed  30 Questions and a few more answers, a discussion about jackalope/lamb heads which led to a reactivation of another Aguirre thread and we learned something about American versus European trucks! Not bad for one week !
The Confetti Quiz doesn't have to end today, play as long as you have fun with it.


Another point before we get to this week's topic: I wanted to encourage you once more to suggest topics for the TOTW. Also, if you have a question that could be combined with a poll, give it to me!  Polls can be launched in every forum, not only the Polling Place (thematically fitting to the respective forum of course).


This week, I used „falling in love“, although it's not exactly that, for lack of a better expression. It's obvious we care a lot about those fictional characters (heck we're still here, two+ years in). We feel for them, we (at least partly) identify with them.

Did it happen after your first viewing? Or after multiple viewings? Or did it take the discussions on the different boards, reading the SS, or whatever brought you more insight to the characters?

And how about the movie itself? Do you think it would still be on your mind if it weren't for the forum?

[Shakesthecoffecan]

I think when they got out of their respective trucks, I was smitten. 

[Jeff Wrangler]

When I first laid eyes on Jack's blue eyes. ... 

[Penthesilea]

I think when they got out of their respective trucks, I was smitten. 

Love your answer 

I just see Jeff's in preview: yours, too

[optom3]

I fell in love first with them in the s.s, then all over again in the film.Both hit me very hard.In the ss i fell for Ennis in the prologue, and for Jack at the motel reunion.I was beyond all hope by the end of the reunion scene.
I avoided the film for a time as I had such a firm picture of Jack and Ennis in my head from the story.My husband noticing my rather obvious obsession,bought me the dvd.
Again I avoided it,The picture on the front of Jake and Heath was not as I had imagined ,Ennis and Jack.
One day literally having nothing much to do I finally sat down to watch the film.I fell in love with Jack as he was watching Ennis.in the truck wing mirror.I fell for Heath when he was in the office,and shyly glances at Jack.
The film was so powerful it completely eradicated the images I had of the 2 of them from reading the story.Which is unusual for me.Normally if I read abook first,then see the film I end up disappointed.Not in the case of BBM.I was completely hooked.
Having bored everyone to death about the book,I then proceeded to bore them all over again about the film.
 I had just about stopped crying over the s.s when I started all over again over the film.
 I lurked on several sites for ages,almost like feeding an addiction.Devouring every word written on both the film,actors,ss the whole lot.
I finally plucked up courage to post here,following Heath's (can't say it) Which of course started me sobbing all over again.
Have never looked back since.
To those who ridicule,I always ask them what difference there is,between discussing and writing about BBM and doing the same about some dire novel,you possibly do not even like,but are forced to examine for 2 years down to the minutiae for A level English.
Personally I would rather discuss something which I not only loved,but which quite literally changed my life and had such a deeply profound effect on me.

[Marina]

Oh Gosh, I think at first sight!  When Ennis got out of the truck and shrugged on that jacket.  I fell in love with Ennis first, and my heart ached for his loneliness and his abandonment, and then Jack kinda grew on me, and it became all about Jack.  And of course, the scene out in front of Aguirre's trailer, with Jack getting out of his truck and draping himself against it, all in blue, with so much confidence and bravado, as compared to Ennis' shyness, hiding nervously under his hat and almost collapsing in on himself.  Both facades at the time for them.

Yes, I fell in love with this film at first viewing, and afterwards, I couldn't stop thinking about it, or talking about it.  I began to search for information on it online.  Very few films have affected me this way. 

I love this film and story so much, every little while I watch it again, and I see it from either Jack's or Ennis' point of view, whatever pov strikes me at the time. 

[Artiste]

Right away !!

[optom3]

I often wonder if I had seen the film 1st would I have fallen in love with both of them,at first sight.I will never know the answer to that.

[Artiste]

Merci optom !

I am surprised that you did NOT fall in love with BOTH !!

Why NOT BOTH   ??

May I be surprised by your answer already !!

Au revoir,
hugs!

[optom3]

Merci optom !

I am surprised that you did NOT fall in love with BOTH !!

Why NOT BOTH   ??

May I be surprised by your answer already !!

Au revoir,
hugs!

I did fall in love with them both in the film and s.s, but at different times.
In the ss I fell in love with Ennis first,in the prologue which is so heart wrenching.
In the film I think realistically I fell in love with them both when I first saw them.It is difficult though as to some extent, I was influenced by reading the book first.
Does that make sense?
I loved Jacks doe eyes in the wing mirror, and funnily enough I loved the gesture of Ennis pinching out his cigarette to save for later.It is always I think different when you read the book first as you have built up some pre conceived notions of the characters.
Suffice it to say I loved them both,and wish that both actors were still here.Hoe ironic that It is Jake/Jack who dies in the film.Yet in life it is the opposite.