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Brown Eyes:
Thinking of the last scene when Alma Jr. comes to visit Ennis in Kurt's fancy car... I've noticed (and keep forgetting to post this in the 'subtle details thread') that she's clearly listening to some song cranked pretty loud on the radio.  This always reminds me of Jack pulling up to Aguirre's trailer (right before the "look what the wind blew in conversation)... he also seems to be listening to something loud on the radio.  Both Alma Jr. and Jack cut their radios off too quickly to be able to identify the tunes very easily.  I have no idea what to do with that parallel in terms of meaning.  But, I thought it might be worth bringing up.

Meryl, I like the idea that both the truck colors and the colors of clothing seem to relate to colors of blood for Jack...  Someone once said that the all the red in the reunion scene (red shirt and red and white truck) can be red as a traditional symbol of happiness too (I'd add 'passion' to that list of symbolic associations too... but that might be too obvious).
 ;)

serious crayons:

--- Quote from: meryl on June 18, 2006, 12:41:09 am ---Another thing I noticed recently is that Jack has a light brown truck at the scene at the lake.  A similarly-colored truck moves past Ennis as he reads the "Deceased" postcard (Jack exiting the story?).  Finally, a brown truck is parked in the yard outside the Twist home as Ennis drives up.  Though they're all different trucks, it almost seems that they are meant to subtly connect one scene to another.

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That makes sense, Meryl. The truck that moves past in the postcard scene is like Jack moving out of Ennis' life. I think I read somewhere that something moving from left to right across the screen suggests an exit, and moving from right to left suggests an entrance -- this would be in keeping with the mirrored movement of the trucks in which Ennis is riding (with paper bags) at the beginning and the end.

I hadn't noticed the similarly colored truck outside the Twist home, but that must mean Ennis is going to "find" Jack inside.

Front-Ranger:
The reason I think all these trucks are significant is that in one of the very first scenes of the road in front of Aguirre's trailer, there is a tireless truck junked by the side of the road. It is shot from down low, giving a kind of monumental feel to the scene and it all but shrieks, "Hey trucks are going to be important in this film!!"  :D

Speaking of, keep on trucking to 1,000, lat!!!

jpwagoneer1964:

--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on June 18, 2006, 12:54:42 pm ---The reason I think all these trucks are significant is that in one of the very first scenes of the road in front of Aguirre's trailer, there is a tireless truck junked by the side of the road. It is shot from down low, giving a kind of monumental feel to the scene and it all but shrieks, "Hey trucks are going to be important in this film!!"  :D

Speaking of, keep on trucking to 1,000, lat!!!

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Like a lot of period films The vehicles are often not quite right for the era. The truck( 1962-1966 GMC ) you mention would have been almost brand new in 1963 not a rusted hulk. I no longer expect prodocers to get this right and I feel it in no way detracts from our movie.

jpwagoneer1964:
One more thing. Wouldn't have been cool if on the the day of the reunion scene they show Jack getting in his Red/white truck long before daylight in Childress, getting on the hwy,  few hours later seeing the sun rise to the east as his truck eats op the road,, eating sandwiches out of his metal lunch box so he woun't have to stop, coffee out of thermos, flasing back to Ennis waiting for him, back to Jack making his way through Colorado, pensive look on his face ( if he only knew ), back to Ennis chain smoking, back to Jack a few hours later, Road signs to Wyoming thru windshield bitting his nails and so on.

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