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"Jack, I swear..." What do you think Ennis meant by that?
loneleeb3:
--- Quote from: brokeplex on October 14, 2007, 02:54:29 pm ---Thanks for the comment about Heath Ledger. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the barely noticeable mouthing of "I love you" was an ad lib by Ledger(shades of what we now know happened on the set of "Casablanca" with Claude Rains and Bogart ad libbing like mad!). I'm not surprised because Heath Ledger is one of the best actors to come along in some time, an actor who follows his instincts. Gosh, I wish that the Academy had awarded Heath "Best Actor" for Brokeback!
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We all know it should have! :-\
ifyoucantfixit:
I always thought that Ennis meant. I swear I always loved you. If I could have done
differently. I would have. I was afraid....and who could blame him...he found out what would
happen..
brokeplex:
maybe what Ennis meant to say was :
Jack I swear, I remember that old cold time on the mountain whan we heard the wind soughing through the pines,
Jack I swear, I remember that time soaring in the air when we believed that our love was nobody's business but ours,
Jack I swear, I remember the mountain covered with the snow of our memories and regrets.
we'll never really know of course what Ennis meant to say to Jack, but this is what it means to me.
ifyoucantfixit:
Everyone is entitled to the thought that they think he meant..
But tp be angry with him, to me is to be mad at a man that had his own set of reasons that
were to him justified and genuine..
Its the same old cliqche "walk a mile in my shoes"
Rayn:
--- Quote from: Artiste on October 09, 2007, 09:50:59 am ---Jack I swear... that from now on that gays or a gay will know that i am a gay man?
Could that be?
Hugs!
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I don't believe so... As I read the book and the character in the movie, I don't think Ennis ever even heard the word, Gay .... His word is queer used as an adjective, "You know I ain't queer". Gay would be too progressive a word for him and the Gay Movement wasn't well known to people in his parts until the late 70s/80s ...
I don't think Ennis cared much for social movements of his day. He wasn't concerned with that. He was more concerned with getting by, and life in general, his friends, family and work. Plain and simple cowboy, as I see him. That's my opinion though, based on the book and the movie I read and saw.
:)
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