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Ennis or Jack? Which one did you identify with more?
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on June 12, 2007, 09:41:05 pm ---Never enough time, never enough.
When I read through old threads, I often fail at first to recognize posts of mine. I'll just read the words and think, "Hmm, that's an interesting idea," or "What?! No way!" Then I'll look closer and see that I wrote it!
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he,he I do that too! I used to be quite a scholar, and then I got into this social thing, and my brain has turned into mush but, hey, I'm happy!!
moremojo:
--- Quote from: Rayn on April 07, 2006, 04:16:18 am ---...Annie P. sure created believable human characters, didn't she!
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Aye, that she did, friend. Ennis and Jack feel as real to me as the flesh-and-blood people in my own life.
JCinNYC2006:
The trip to Calgary was always overshadowed by a dual sense of the realness of the characters as well as the reality of the movie being a movie. Talking to some of the folks on the trip reminded me that Ennis and Jack are made more real by what we project onto them, the parts that we identify with and the balance of optimism and stoicism that they represent, to me anyway. Definitely been thinking about how I don't want to be like Ennis and how I've moved away from that, little by little.
Juan
moremojo:
And yet, isn't it strange at how much we love Ennis (well, I do anyway), even though we don't want to end up like him, or even be like him (even though so many of us claim the resemblance)? That has been part of the paradox for me, for even though I strive to have a happier life than Ennis, he will always be stuck in his fictional universe with the same broken heart...and I'll be loving him and hurting for him, no matter what.
And welcome back, Juan (and I love your avatar, notre petit prince)!
JCinNYC2006:
Merci for that, I hope to be back more often!
I hear what you're saying about this love/hate thing, or at least love/repulsion for Ennis. It's easy to simultaneously identify with certain qualities (the brooding, the sturdiness, the poignancy in his inexpressiveness) and romanticize them as well. After all, he is a fictional character...the reader fills in the gaps and gives meaning to the words, the same way the actors flesh them out on film. But yeah, at least each of us has the opportunity to be different. At least, that's what I want. J
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