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Jacks ride to see Ennis with the Sheep.
jpwagoneer1964:
After the first tent scene, Jack actually rides up to where the sheep are pastured to see Ennis "you know I aint....". being the camp tender he would not usually make the trip. This was late afternoon after chores which included washing Ennises shirt. In the movie trailer there is a shot of Jack standing shirtless on the bridge near camp, gathering up courage while is shirt drys by the fire to speak to Ennis? The fist veiwing I didn't get the jack made this trip. I may be the only one.
Also the way this scene is held while the sit close in silence, you know the remained there for some time. Back at camp never stepping more than a few feet apart preparing supper and breaking bread in close, quiet anticipation?
starboardlight:
yeah, i imagined that they didn't say one word to each other after "me neither" until Ennis enters the tent. I think they did have supper without speaking to one another.
Brown Eyes:
Yes, I've always thought it was an interesting issue to try to imagine the choreography of that long day. The shot from the trailer is helpful in this. I really wonder why that hit the cutting room floor for the actual movie. If it made it into the trailer, cutting it must have been a pretty last-minute decision.
I can imagine that their interactions would be pretty awkward that whole evening. But, we do know that Ennis changes clothes at some point that day. Undressing and changing clothes in front of Jack would have taken on a much different significance of course by this point. He seemed very much at ease changing and bathing in front of Jack earlier in the film (before he was aware of the extent of Jack's attraction), I wonder how shy he would have felt changing in front of him now that all the cards are on the table, so to speak.
In another thread about the whole shirt issue, I noticed that during the first tent scene Ennis is wearing his shirt with the broad brown and blue intersecting lines. It's hard to notice because of the coat... but there are a few moments when you can tell. When we see Jack doing laundry it looks like he's in the midst of washing Ennis's shirt that ends up being the shirt, one of the pair that Ennis discovers at the end. By the time we see Ennis sitting in front of the campfire before the second tent scene, he's clearly changed into that shirt.
By the way, I'm increasingly loving the abrupt cut from the "I ain't no queer... me neither" conversation to the second tent scene. It's like Lee is immediately undercutting those statements or is immediately exposing them as a form of posturing.
bbm_stitchbuffyfan:
Damn it, I really wish Ang Lee just followed around Jack and Ennis for the entirety of that day and we saw their every single move.
jpwagoneer1964:
--- Quote from: atz75 on June 10, 2006, 09:50:21 pm ---Yes, I've always thought it was an interesting issue to try to imagine the choreography of that long day. The shot from the trailer is helpful in this. I really wonder why that hit the cutting room floor for the actual movie. If it made it into the trailer, cutting it must have been a pretty last-minute decision.
I can imagine that their interactions would be pretty awkward that whole evening. But, we do know that Ennis changes clothes at some point that day. Undressing and changing clothes in front of Jack would have taken on a much different significance of course by this point. He seemed very much at ease changing and bathing in front of Jack earlier in the film (before he was aware of the extent of Jack's attraction), I wonder how shy he would have felt changing in front of him now that all the cards are on the table, so to speak.
In another thread about the whole shirt issue, I noticed that during the first tent scene Ennis is wearing his shirt with the broad brown and blue intersecting lines. It's hard to notice because of the coat... but there are a few moments when you can tell. When we see Jack doing laundry it looks like he's in the midst of washing Ennis's shirt that ends up being the shirt, one of the pair that Ennis discovers at the end. By the time we see Ennis sitting in front of the campfire before the second tent scene, he's clearly changed into that shirt.
By the way, I'm increasingly loving the abrupt cut from the "I ain't no queer... me neither" conversation to the second tent scene. It's like Lee is immediately undercutting those statements or is immediately exposing them as a form of posturing.
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I like to think they rode back to camp together, prepared supper side by side, washed dishes and cookware, both enjoying but eachother not quite understanding their new found intimacy in silent interaction so as not to break the spell. Jack would have made a point to lay out Ennises freshly washed clothes. Ennis likely bathed as he normally did under the cloak of darkened sky with Jack by the fire. We already know Jack was already spic and span.
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