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saucycobblers:

--- Quote from: DeeDee on June 01, 2006, 08:52:08 am ---
I'm gonna hang on David's coat tails, this is the best line ever.  I kind of see him thinking that in the movie, when he's sending up a prayer of thanks.

--- End quote ---

It really is a beautiful line. For me it's the moment Ennis starts to feel the euphoria of new love, though I suspect he doesn't realise it yet.

Jeff Wrangler:
I got a million of 'em. Well, not literally. ...

But the only one I can be sure I won't misquote without the text here in front of me at work?

"Gun's goin' off."

 ;)

isabelle:
I enjoyed contributing to this thread of yours on IMDb, Nicky. There are indeed hundreds I could quote. You've already quoted the "shaking floorboards" one, so here's an other:

"...yet he is suffused with a sense of pleasure because Jack Twist was in his dream"

To which the following echoes

"And he would wake sometimes in grief, sometimes with the old sense of joy and relief; the pillow sometimes wet, sometimes the sheets"

Gets me every time, even right now...

isabelle:
I also love, and understand the feeling of:

" If he does not force his attention on it [the dream], it might stoke the day, rewarm that old, cold time on the mountain when they owned the world and nothing seemed wrong".

saucycobblers:
Hey Isabelle! I thought I'd resurrect this from IMDB as it got quite a good response there. Also, watching the film a second time at the theatres after having read the story felt like a much more overwhelming experience for me, Annie Proulx's words were so powerful.

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