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Minute Detail - IMO The Worst Line Delivery in the Movie
Front-Ranger:
I've been mulling over Aguirre and Jack and there are several verry odd exchanges between them. First, Jack says Aguirre thinks he can control the weather and keep the sheep from getting struck by lightning. Then, Aguirre rides up after getting an eyeful and says, Not unless you can cure pneumonia. Aguirre perhaps thinks Jack is some kind of alien being and looks on him as an aggressor. He even uses his binoculars to check on Ennis.
sparkle_motion:
Brandon, I completely agree. Those bikers were HORRIBLE actors. That whole scene seemed forced. I love the Ennis part, don't get me wrong, but not the biker part.
David:
The only line I didn't like was when Alma asks Enis why Jack can't come in for coffee. "He's from Texas" Alma: "Texans don't drink coffee?"
Yes, I know it got a lot of laughs, but the dialog just seems incomplete. Or maybe just frustrating. If I were Alma I would grabbed him by the apples and slowed him right down! Then maybe she would have gotten a straight answer from him.
TheStudDuck:
The couple of lines that I don't like, but actually enjoy how much I don't like them (if that makes any sense)... are the ones where the two herds of sheep have gotten mixed together and they are pulling them apart and Ennis shouts out two lines... something like, "yeah, and what if we wanna work for Aguirre again, hunh?" and "we gotta stick this thing out, Jack!"
The reason they always irk me is because they painfully sound like ad libs... like Heath is desperately trying to be a true actor and be in character at every moment and... yeah, it just seems like way too much for me. Just way too much. All the same, I somewhat enjoy it... but in this weird sadistic way, like it's just so over the top that it amuses me. I don't know.
I'm prepared to get lambasted for my knock at the god that is Heath Ledger's performance... but, hey, that's just a couple of the lines that really don't feel right for me. Just because they sound so much like ad-libs... not like natural things someone would say... just things someone would say when they are attempting to be natural. If you get me.
henrypie:
David, I completely agree about "We gotta stick this one out, Jack." It rings ever so slightly false to me.
And FrontRanger: I think he looks up the mountain at Ennis through his binoculars very pointedly, to show Jack that he's watching. Everything.
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