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After watching my DVD a half Dozen times
Jeff Wrangler:
Barb,
That was all so beautifully put. And so much that I never, in my eight viewings, noticed, like Jake/Jack closing his eyes in the motel! I don't mean to sound flip, but I almost feel I should print out your last post and have it in front of me when I watch the DVD for the first time tonight.
Yes, you are absolutely right, in the end it does come down to Heath and Jake.
As for the Bailey's in the coffee, someone once said, Somewhere the sun is always over the yardarm! :)
Jeff
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 07, 2006, 03:35:55 pm ---Barb,
That was all so beautifully put. And so much that I never, in my eight viewings, noticed, like Jake/Jack closing his eyes in the motel! I don't mean to sound flip, but I almost feel I should print out your last post and have it in front of me when I watch the DVD for the first time tonight.
Yes, you are absolutely right, in the end it does come down to Heath and Jake.
As for the Bailey's in the coffee, someone once said, Somewhere the sun is always over the yardarm! :)
--- End quote ---
Aw, thanks. :-*
Here's something else I noticed on my eighth viewing (overall - third one on DVD) last night. Someone had mentioned a while back on the IMDb board that Jack always wears solid shirts and Ennis always plaid or patterned ones, and that he or she took this to be a symbol of Jack's security in his own sexuality vs. Ennis' lack thereof. I read that after I'd seen it a few times and watched for it the next and found it was true. And I continued to think that over the next few screenings.
BUT, last night I'm watching it, and I realize for the first time that when Jack goes back to Aguirre's trailer the next year, HE IS WEARING A PLAID SHIRT. A mostly solid one, but definitely plaid. Kind of green and grey and blue. Over it, he's wearing a solid blood-red sweater and then his coat on top. It probably sounds looney, but I was *floored*. How freakin' great is a movie when you can watch it seven times, two in the comfort of your own home and with headphones so as to hear every sound and have no distractions and think you've caught it all, then to find that no, you have not. Not by a long shot.
Back to the shirt - it makes perfect sense that this would be the one time Jack would feel vulnerable about his sexuality. Does he sense Aguirre might know? Or is it just that he's taking a huge risk emotionally and physically in going there essentially hoping to find Ennis again?
It just never ceases to amaze me the careful, exquisite thought that has gone into every article of clothing, every set, every prop. Man, these people are geniuses.
And as for the sun and the yardarm, in that case, how about a martini? Or will you stick with the whiskey?
Jeff Wrangler:
Well, it really was beautifully put.
Headphones! Damn! Why didn't I think of that! What a great idea!
Thanks, I'll stick with whiskey (scotch, to be precise). :)
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 07, 2006, 04:10:06 pm ---Well, it really was beautifully put.
Headphones! Damn! Why didn't I think of that! What a great idea!
Thanks, I'll stick with whiskey (scotch, to be precise). :)
--- End quote ---
Ah. An acquired taste I've never acquired. Vodka is my poison. I like Absolut best, but in a pinch, Smirnoff works just as effectively. I like an Absolut martini straight up with a twist. Or a Twist. Now *that* would be one hell of a drink.
Enjoy it tonight. Richly. Of course no one needs to tell you that.
I'll leave you with my favorite Dorothy Parker quote:
I like a good martini - one or two at most.
After three, I'm under the table
After four, I'm under my host.
henrypie:
Barb,
Will you marry me?
Jeff, will you be my best man?
After Dorothy Parker, and re a comment you made above, it seems right to quote Cole Porter:
"Every time we say goodbye
I die a little..."
My drink: Gin. Oh baby, gin in the garden in spring. It's because of experiences of youth that my heart goes pitapat with gin in the garden in spring. But so be it. It's gettin to be gin (and tonic) time again.
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