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"It ain't right."
mvansand76:
Also I am ever the perfectionist, this would have made me feel ill for days if I was Ang Lee, does that make sense?
mvansand76:
Also:
After the fight, when Jack is comforting Ennis, his arm changes position, bad editing.
Last confrontation: you don't really see Ennis speak his last words "I can't stand this anymore Jack", like it was added later on. That notion adds importance to that sentence, though.
And in general I thought the mid portion of the movie was too slow and it did not show enough of Jack and Ennis together. I know, that was the whole idea behind it, that they wanted to be together as much as we wanted to see them together, but still... I really miss that scene from the book, where they sit so close together by the campfire, that's my favorite part of the book, it told the reader that they were still very much in love and it was just... right. It felt right. I didn't get that feeling in the movie.
stevenedel:
--- Quote from: mvansand76 on July 10, 2006, 12:04:28 pm ---
And in general I thought the mid portion of the movie was too slow and it did not show enough of Jack and Ennis together. I know, that was the whole idea behind it, that they wanted to be together as much as we wanted to see them together, but still... I really miss that scene from the book, where they sit so close together by the campfire, that's my favorite part of the book, it told the reader that they were still very much in love and it was just... right. It felt right. I didn't get that feeling in the movie.
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That is so true! Whenever I see Jack and Ennis sitting at the campfire, way apart, like any two ordinary straight campers, I get this Brideshead Revisited flashback of Sebastian resting his head in Charles's lap. Now wouldn't something like that have been great... ::) (and rather more likely, too).
Also, after the Thanksgiving row with Alma when Ennis gets himself beaten up and then we fade out, when we fade in again we see him and Jack on horseback in the mountains. I always feel it would have been really great if the fade in would have been one of Ennis on his back in Jack's arms - or is that too obvious and deliberate a contrast with the previous scene...?
My, look at us... we're rewriting the perfect movie. :-X
welliwont:
--- Quote from: stevenedel on July 10, 2006, 12:54:36 pm ---
My, look at us... we're rewriting the perfect movie. :-X
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I couldn't agree more....
Now, look you people, ya gotta stop this.... there was another thread like this a whal ago, and you don't wanna know what happened to the posters on that thread!! Always bitchin' and moanin', findin' fault with our perfect story, it was scandalous!!!
;) ;) ;D ;D
tamarack:
OK - One more? The rodeo where Jack meets Lureen. He's getting ready to ride and she squeezes in by the fence to watch him. The announcer says that Jack's ride was the ride of the day, and that may be so, but it wasn't a legal ride. He wasn't on the bull when the 8 second buzzer went off, so he would have been disqualified.
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