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That zany Uncle Harold
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Rutella on August 07, 2006, 04:39:38 pm ---Unless of course Aguirre just made it all up so he'd have an excuse to come up the mountain and spy on the boys (after all them ranch stiffs aint never no good)...or rather he comes up to spy on the boys and then when he sees more than he expected (or maybe exactly what he expects??) he uses Uncle Harold (whether he is really ill or not) as an excuse just to show Jack 'hey I've got binoculars, you think you're all alone up here but you can't escape the spying eye of society'. And then when he comes back up to tell them to come down he adds the 'by the way Uncle Harold isn't dead'.
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Though somehow he'd have to know that Jack HAD an Uncle Harold ...
Rutella:
Ah. Good point! ;D
nakymaton:
Isn't pneumonia a disease of the lungs? Lungs, breath, wind?
(Just hit me if this has already come up. Somehow I think it has. Plus, I have no idea whether I have a point to make or not.)
I wonder if Jack and Ennis hadn't been talking about Uncle Harold, or something. I mean, in the grand scheme of things, somebody not dying is a bigger deal than having to end a job early. Except that in BBM, ending the job early means so much more.
(Edit) Also, I wonder if Jack would have been expected to go to Uncle Harold's funeral if he had died?
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: nakymaton on August 07, 2006, 05:01:55 pm ---(Edit) Also, I wonder if Jack would have been expected to go to Uncle Harold's funeral if he had died?
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Doubt it. Jack doesn't seem all that concerned about Uncle Harold or indicate he might have to go, even back when the docs didn't expect he'd make it. It wasn't, "Oh my god, he's my favorite uncle, and he's only in his late 40s, way too young to die, what else did my mom say?" It was kind of a shrugging, "Guess there's not much I can do about it up here."
jpwagoneer1964:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on August 07, 2006, 02:26:02 pm ---
" In both, Jack is wearing uncharacteristically dark clothes (going from memory, I think his shirt is blue in the Aguirre scene, but it's a darker, grayer blue than usual, and in post-divorce it's black and gray, colors that elsewhere in the movie seem associated with death or murder). I
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Jack is wearing the solid dark grey shirt he is seen in several of the Brokeback scenes. His only other one is 'the' blue denimn.
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