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CarlaMom2:
What are everyone's take on the flashback where Ennis embraces Jack and says he's like a horse sleeping standing up.  Then he gently rocks him.  I thought that was an insight to what Ennis was really like with Jack.  :'( He DID care for him.  There were tender moments between them.  Ennis was only like that with Jack.  HE brought out the love in Ennis.  Before they had sex Jack said,"that's the most you've said in two weeks."  Ennis replied, Hell, that's the most I've said in two years."  (or something like that)  So there definitely was an emotional connection before they were physical.

Was the flashback in the story as well?

Carla

Front-Ranger:
Yes, CarlaMom, but it was near the end. I urge you to read the story. You can find it at your local library, or get the book of short stories by Annie Proulx called "Close Range." Or, PM me and I'll send it to you if you have no other way to get it. Best, FRont-Ranger

CarlaMom2:
I just finished the story!  It was amazing.  It's like seeing it for the first time.  So beautiful.  How was the book From Story to Screen?  Was it just as good, because I might have to read that one, too.

Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: CarlaMom2 on December 03, 2006, 10:23:26 pm ---I just finished the story!  It was amazing.  It's like seeing it for the first time.  So beautiful.  How was the book From Story to Screen?  Was it just as good, because I might have to read that one, too.

--- End quote ---

I, for one, seriously recommend that everyone get a copy of Story to Screenplay. It's handy to have the original short story and the screenplay together in one book, and the additional essays, especially the essays by Annie Proulx and Diana Ossana, are interesting and rewarding reading.

One word of warning: Any obsessive Brokie (as if there are any other kinds!  ;D ) will quickly notice that there are some discrepancies, or at least differences, between what we see in the movie and what is in the published screenplay. Nothing really earth-shattering, but there are differences. My favorite example is that my favorite Ennis line in the entire film--when he comes out on the landing outside the apartment and looks down at Jack in the parking lot--does not appear in the published screenplay.

I wonder whether we ever had a thread somewhere cataloging these differences?  ???

Front-Ranger:
Not that I know of, Jeff. There are also a lot of scenes in the screenplay that were cut short in the movie, or cut out altogether. I'm thinking of the old man who appears to Ennis at the beginning.

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