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What do you scream at the TV screen?
Katie77:
When Ennis is marrying Alma......i feel like shouting.....DONT ENNIS....ITS THE START OF A SHIT LIFE FOR YOU.........
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: DavidinHartford on July 31, 2006, 07:56:25 am ---Hey Barb!
I'm glad you had a chance to initiate two newbies to BBM. I'm glad they liked it even thought they didn't "Love it".
I guess the difference is some people dont fall in love with the characters the way we did. Of course, the many of us that have had similar story line experiences are the ones hit the hardest.
Personally, I can't see how anyone couldn't just want to run over to the screen and start kissing Jake! LOL. Damn, I need to wipe the lint of of my TV screen. ::)
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Yeah, I think that's the thing - either you fall in love with the characters or you don't. They did both say that had they seen it in a theater and been alone in the dark with their thoughts and little to no distractions, they'd have probably picked up on the subtleties more. And their observation about the first tent scene was somewhat different from the usual one - or they expanded enough on it that I could understand where they were coming from. They said it wasn't that they didn't know each other well enough or long enough - of course they did. But that they thought Jack was taking a *huge* chance coming on to Ennis like that, even drunk. They just didn't see Ennis giving any indication to Jack prior to that that he was interested in anything more from him than friendship. But again, they were distracted from time to time and didn't notice the subtle indications. One of them said she was afraid he was gonna beat the hell out of him when he first jumped up like that.
And yeah, I don't get that, either. I still laugh thinking about the guy on IMDb who said he really was a ranch hand in Wyoming and straight and that by the end of the movie he "wanted to kiss that guy."
They did at least come away from it saying they'd like to see all the lead actors in other things, now (they were particularly impressed with Michelle), so it must have made some impression.
David:
Hi Barb,
Your friend was correct in saying it was a "Huge Chance" that Jack took. And it happens in REAL life that way too.
Often it is just one person who feels the attraction and mistakes friendship for something more. Trust me, I made that same "Jack Twist" move in a tent with my best friend when we were both 19, and it backfired. Fortunately he didn't beat the crap out of me, he just declined, told me to go back to sleep and he rolled back over! LOL
I can laugh about it now, but at the time I was embarrassed as hell.
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: DavidinHartford on July 31, 2006, 09:19:29 am ---Hi Barb,
Your friend was correct in saying it was a "Huge Chance" that Jack took. And it happens in REAL life that way too.
Often it is just one person who feels the attraction and mistakes friendship for something more. Trust me, I made that same "Jack Twist" move in a tent with my best friend when we were both 19, and it backfired. Fortunately he didn't beat the crap out of me, he just declined, to me to go back to sleep and rolled back over! LOL
I can laugh about it now, but at the time I was embarrassed as hell.
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Sure, it does. It's happened to me, too. Backfired BIG time two different times and didn't the other. (Sort of) ironically, one of the times it backfired turned out to be because he was gay. So I'm one for three in making the first move. Not a very admirable record, except maybe in baseball.
silkncense:
--- Quote ---Wouldn't it be fun to just for one day be able to erase all your memories of the movie and the discussions surrounding it, and watch the movie for the first time again, without knowing ANYTHING about it, maybe then we would be able to understand non-Brokies!
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I did watch it without knowing anything about it (except it got a good review in the Seattle Times & had Jake in it). And I left "dazed & confused", sleepless for 3 nights & a Brokie!
And I always yell at the screen during the Reunion kiss - "Why not ME??!!"
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