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Minute Detail - IMO The Best Line Delivery in the Movie
loneleeb3:
Sorry! Didn't think of it like that.
SHe just always seemed real cold and like she took Jack for granted.
She never once took up for him! Not to her parents, not to those jerks in the office that day.
Plus those characteristics of Lureens mirror someone in my own life. :P
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on April 20, 2007, 02:59:52 pm ---Bitch Lureen? Ouch. Remember, at this moment, everything was coming together for her (fishing buddies, addresses in his head, never wanting to dance with his wife). Right there she is finding out why, all at once (like when Alma saw the kiss). But she was still good enough to direct Ennis to Jack's parents, where he could find closure.
People tend to be hard on Lureen for some reason, as if not being primarily a homemaker means she somehow had less of a heart. But she just wanted to be noticed and loved, like anybody else.
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[Insert clapping emoticon here!]
Thanks, Laura! I agree, hunderd per cent.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on April 20, 2007, 03:32:58 pm ---Thanks, Laura! I agree, hunderd per cent.
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Me, too. In fact, I agree 150 percent with this part:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on April 20, 2007, 02:59:52 pm ---People tend to be hard on Lureen for some reason, as if not being primarily a homemaker means she somehow had less of a heart.
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Not accusing anyone here specifically :) but I find it a little disturbing that some people see Lureen's devotion to her work as evidence that she's a less than adequate mother/wife. I hope they wouldn't say that about the working mothers/wives they know now. Maybe the early '60s context, when Lureen's attitude was less common, throws people.
loneleeb3:
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on April 20, 2007, 08:21:24 pm ---Me, too. In fact, I agree 150 percent with this part:
Not accusing anyone here specifically :) but I find it a little disturbing that some people see Lureen's devotion to her work as evidence that she's a less than adequate mother/wife. I hope they wouldn't say that about the working mothers/wives they know now. Maybe the early '60s context, when Lureen's attitude was less common, throws people.
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Just to clarify my point! LOL
My reasons for disliking Lureen ahve nothing to do with work ethic or her mothering capabilities.
I always got the feeling that she used Jack and never took up for him. True, Jack used her to crate the image he needed to survive. But I can identify with Jack in that he really seemed to try to do everything right where she was concerned.
She always seemed cold and uncaring. Then at the end when she was talking to Ennis she was almost on the verge of being mean.
Laura brought up a great point that I never thought of, that everything was coming together in that moment. For that I can certainly empithize with her and sympathize for her. But i don't know, I just get a chill when I think about her.
But, thats just me.
ifyoucantfixit:
Well as everyone here has said, every situation, and every line is like chocolate.'
something so smooth and desirable that you become addicted...But the one that I notice a lot that has not been mentioned here...Is "time to get going cowboy"
they both are so distraught, and show the sorrow, and trying not to cry, its almost something you can feel in your soul...You know from the first time you see
that scene, until the last, it is the doomsday scream.....no matter how many times
you see the movie.
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