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maggiesmommy GayLee:
I have been thinking on BBM latley, and decided to watch some of my favorite parts for lack of time to watch it all the way through...there has been something that has been bothering me i just haven't been able to put my finger on it, nail it down, but it's there kind of a restless feeling like something is missing....I thought and thought about it trying to figure it out...i think my recent viewing coupled with my listening to the audio book on the way to work today has made me aware of what has been troubling me....
I raised 4 kids and twice that many horses in my life...we live in town now, and don't have the big 4 leggeds anymore, but they will always be a part of me, i loved my horses, loved training the babies...the smell of them, feeding, grooming, shoveling shit and putting up hay....i LOVED all of it...ahhh the memories...ANYWAY....my horses and my children (ok, my husb too) but there is just that special thing about your kids and for me, my horses...i guess its the nurturing that they need that fulfills something in me...and from the book, i take it that Ennis felt that way about his girls and his horses....enough so that his term of enderement was to call the girls and the horses "little darlin"...for a man that was always short on words...this spoke voulmes and it was , in my opinion, his way of saying "I love you". In the book Ennis said "little Darlin" to Jack. and i think that was Ennis saying I Love You to him in the only way he knew how....and you know what???? they didn't put that in the MOVIE!!! after listening and watching and disecting the movie here with all of you, i just find this wierd...now i know Ang had a really good reason, he must have, with all of the other minute detail in the film, but why would that most important line be left out??
i hear him say it in my head...so s'alright, but i'd sure love to have heard it in the reunion scene....how bout you??

Oh, and a song that reminds me of BBM....Annie Lenox's "Why"....umumum...
Gay Lee

http://www.alennox.net/
when you get to the site, select music, DIVA and Why, you can play the music or the video....the words of this song jsut show me the progression of the realtionship....

Ellemeno:
Yes, it's really, really missing in the movie, I agree, an example of the difference between story-Ennis and film-Ennis.  Story-Ennis is much franker, really.

Thanks for the Annie Lennox link, I wound up there for quite a while.

maggiesmommy GayLee:
whew, i'm glad i got an answer i thought maybe this was one of those thangs that had been wrang out a thousand times before i even saw the movie!!
Annie Lennox is new to me, but i listened to alot of her stuff last night and i love her voice...and that song, WHY...goosebumps...
 ;D

Amber:
Actually I just commented about that the other day on some random thread somewhere on this site *lol*

I use the line in my signature because like you I felt that it conveyed a LOT of emotion for Ennis.  As much as I would have loved to hear Ennis say "little darlin'" to Jack in that reunion scene (how powerful would that have been!) I guess I get why Ang Lee decided not to go that route.  I think, by that point in the movie it just wouldn't have fit the movie-Ennis character and maybe it would have seemed out of place. 

I haven't seen anyone else post about this so I'm glad I'm not the only one who was wondering what happened to that line!  :)

maggiesmommy GayLee:
another BBM mystery...but in my mind i have married up the book and movie, and if he doesn't say in the movei..the thinks it.i just know he does...

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