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MaineWriter:

--- Quote from: maggiesmommy on July 16, 2006, 09:43:24 am ---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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This has come up other places but I'll repeast myself again. For me, the story and the movie are two totally separate experiences. Other books have been written and turned into movies. I always compare the movie to the book and the vast majority of the time, the movie comes up short. With BBM, I started doing the same thing (I had read the story just a few weeks before seeing the movie), but in the process, I realized that there were enough fundamental differences between the two that it is not really fair to compare them. There is BBM, the story, and BBM, the movie. They each stand on their own merits. There is also the screenplay (many versions) which some have described as the first BBM fanfic ever written.

Leslie

maggiesmommy GayLee:
thanks for your opinion, and i agree, movies seldom live up to the book, take DaVinci Code for instance, no way...
I watched BBM BEFORE reading anything...even reviews...and it was well after the movie was released and i never saw it in the theater.  And you'll need to excuse me, i haven't read every thread going back to infinity, just don't have the time, even if i wanted to...so i thought i'd throw the thought out there and see if i caught anything...so i appreciate your repeating your comments here. I just feel such a feeling on the incompleteness of theE&J relationship, that i wish it was something that had been included in the movie, not because it belonged there, not because it should have been there, not because it would have or have not been appropriate, but just because it would have made it easier for me to accept in the final moments...
i think we all bring 100% of ourselves into a movie like this and i'm sure Ang Lee didn't include it for the very reasons I stated above...it wouldn't have touched us on so deep and personal a level if it weren't so poignant.  we all draw from our own experiences, and for me having a person very close to me die of aids just a year ago, and the fundamental life change BBM made in me, I have my own regrets for things left unsaid. maybe this is why this is so difficult for me...those things left unsiad, then there is no time, and no chance of redemption...
anyhoo....thanks for your response...
gaylee

MaineWriter:
Gaylee,

Do you read fanfic? If not, you might want to consider delving into a story or two. For many people (myself included) these stories have been fundamental to their healing process and finding the "complete" place for the incompleteness of which you speak.

You have lots of different options. Some folks (I fall into this category) have posited a scenario in which Jack and Ennis manage to get together and have the sweet life Jack envisioned. Others pick up where the story/movie ends and envision Ennis's life post-Jack. Others go into wildly alternative universes (Jack and Ennis as stormtroopers in Star Wars, Ennis as a vampire). I will admit, this latter category does not appeal to me at all. However, I have read stories in the first two genres and can give you some good suggestions, if you are interested.

Shameless plug for myself: here's a link to my story, if you are interested

http://lazylfarm.livejournal.com/417.html

Jack and Ennis get together after Ennis's divorce. They have some difficult moments, but basically, it is the story of them begining to build a life together. Mature themes and language, including sex.

Leslie
MaineWriter

newyearsday:
Hi Maggiesmommy, or Gaylee, as I believe your name is,

Nice to see this topic brought up again in such a heartfelt and personally relevant way, as you described your love of your horses so beautifully. I think that the reason this line wasn't included was because it might have been hard to get in all the information that Annie gives when she writes that Ennis used "little darlin" when talking to his daughters and horses. There would have to be some scenes of him saying that to each of them, and NOT to Alma, for it to register as a significant event, which I agree it is.

Annie is able to convey all that with hardly a sentence, but it would probably take too long to set it up in the movie. It might come across as a beautiful bit of affection if he just said it to Jack out of the blue (there's that color again!) in the reunion scene, but I like the detail and significance of how he calls his daughters and horses that too, and that might be missing.

There's my two cents.

maggiesmommy GayLee:
Thanks, Leslie..after big brother, i', gonna check it out..no i never have read any of it, but inteneded to...it seems monumental to wade through all of it...but i will got to your link later...THANKS

 NWYRDY..thanks for your obsevations. yrd, i so loved my orses and i think that is a link with ennis and i...but you are right, the movie would have to involve way too much manuvering to get in and make it make sense...but when i'm dozy..i like to think on it...
maybe i need to do a bit of fanfic of my own!!
 

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