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What is behind Jack and Ennis' hats?
dly64:
--- Quote from: goadra on August 29, 2006, 10:35:43 pm ---Well, the train was known as the “iron horse.”
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OMG! I didn't know that! That makes even more sense!
Front-Ranger:
I was just reading the interesting interview with the location manager of the movie, and he said this about finding the best old-time and dilapidated locations for the movie:
--- Quote ---we took a map of Alberta and highlighted every rail line, current and former.
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Read the interview! There's a link in Movie Resources.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: goadra on September 08, 2006, 10:55:11 pm ---Ennis takes off his own hat when he kneels in the alley (using his hat to shield himself from the world),
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Somebody just noticed this on an imdb thread as a bookend to the moment in the "happy tussle" where Ennis takes off his hat to shield their kiss -- even when, as far as he knows, the world can't see them.
--- Quote ---Ennis puts on his hat after the Thankgiving dinner (someone mentioned that he puts it on backward, but I can't tell); his hat is then knocked off when the trucker hits him.
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And as a result of posting on the aforementioned bookend thread, I'm so hyperaware of bookends that this makes me think, "Is this a bookend specifically linked to some former scene of hat-knocking off?" I mean, lots if not all of the love scenes involve knocked-off hats.
I suppose I'd need a little more to go on to call it an actual bookend, though. But part of me is busily thinking, is this the anti-reunion scene?. Once you start looking for stuff like this, it's hard to know where to stop!
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Mikaela:
--- Quote ---....is this the anti-reunion scene?
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Surely the scene where Jack is murdered is the ultimate anti-reunion scene... But of course there can be more than one, since so much in both their separate and difficult lives is anti-reunion to some degree.
A bookends thread would be great! :)
Front-Ranger:
Amanda has a "bookends" thread in the archive. Maybe we can get her to revive it. If she doesn't, I will start one, altho I'll need to do some research first!!
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