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The "I LOVE everything Brokeback" thread

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Brown Eyes:

--- Quote from: ednbarby on May 19, 2006, 11:06:39 am ---Hey, you, get outta my head!  ;)  I was just thinking about something specific about the score I wanted to post, then I came here and read this.

I love that at the very beginning of the movie, when Ennis is getting out of the truck and approaching the trailer, there is that plaintive two note call, followed by a faint two note return.  It is Ennis calling out to Jack, who is also approaching but from a distance, and who is calling back.  It is the story of their lives, summed up so gorgeously in two notes mirroring each other.

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Oh sure, I always hear those two notes as echos... meant to foreshadow the Jack/ Ennis relationship.  It's interesting that Ennis enters the picture in a literal way (we see him coming) but Jack enters the situation symbolically before we see him.  The echo in ths score, the wind that's really prominent before he arrives, and the little symbol of the rodeo cowboy on the semi-truck's license plate.  I love that license plate by the way.  It's how he leaves the film too... he dies but his symbols persist for several important scenes after he's no longer around as a person.
 :'(

So, to stay on topic... I love BBM for the millions of amazing symbols that enrich this movie.  It seems so spare and simple at first, but clearly the more we think about it the more multiple meanings can be found in almost every image and/ or sound.
 :D

Penthesilea:

--- Quote ---It seems so spare and simple at first
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Yes, this is both in the story, but also in the movie. I love how the movie manages to be true to the story on this. Proulx' use of language is also sparse but poetical nevertheless.
Same in the movie: Lee doesn't beat us over the head with ususal romantic scenes (like a couple walking hand in hand into the sunset or stereotypes like that). But how much better is it when Ennis orders soup, or Jack raises an eyebrow when asking Ennis for next summer. And this is only the beginning of the jouney into the deeper layers of BBM.

wolf:
I love that something so accessible as a MOVIE has bought so much joy into my existence.  Didn't have to take vows of celibacy, give away half my 'fortune' or have my thetans sorted.  All I had to do was find 2.5 spare hours and $15.

Three months later, it keeps paying and paying and paying.  The best investment I'll ever make.

W

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