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Observations on second to last scene (Junior+Ennis in trailer)
Toast:
Here is Jack, at the final lake scene, picking up things to load into his pickup.
There seems to be a pair of "range bags" or saddle bags that Jack puts in his pickup.
The bags seem less ornate and are more rounded than the one in the trailer. This pair of bags are with a case that looks like it contains a fishing rod. And Jack did put all three in his pickup.
Makes me wonder if Jack gifted Ennis with an expensive "range bag" at some point, and having it on the bed would be very meaningful. There is a scene in the shooting script where Jack tried to give Ennis an expensive rifle with a gold plate on it; but Ennis rejected it because he knew he couldn't justify it to Alma.
Jack might have later been generous to Ennis, when there was no Missus to explain things to. Maybe the gun showed up again with an accompanying "range bag".
OOPs I am talking about them as though they are real people.
jpwagoneer1964:
I tend to go with Alma Jr's purse.
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: Toast on January 08, 2007, 01:22:02 pm ---OOPs I am talking about them as though they are real people.
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You mean they are not :o? No such cruel jokes please ;).
--- Quote ---The bags seem less ornate and are more rounded than the one in the trailer.
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I counter your saddlebags/range bags with a similar handbag ;D:
I stick with my handbag theory (doesn't make me right, though. Maybe only stubborn ::)).
nakymaton:
The bag beside Junior looks really shiny and stiff, like new leather. I guess any leather accessory starts out that way, but take leather outside into the weather (like you would with a range bag or a saddle bag), and it changes. It gets stained by water, it gets broken in and softened up. Even if it's polished a lot, it doesn't stay looking like that for long.
Of course, those of us who spill things in our purses ( ::) ) know that handbags can look stained and weathered after a while, too. And maybe Ennis would own something that he would keep indoors and for decoration and everything... but that doesn't fit with the character as I understand him.
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: nakymaton on January 08, 2007, 04:18:56 pm ---The bag beside Junior looks really shiny and stiff, like new leather. I guess any leather accessory starts out that way, but take leather outside into the weather (like you would with a range bag or a saddle bag), and it changes. It gets stained by water, it gets broken in and softened up. Even if it's polished a lot, it doesn't stay looking like that for long.
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Exactly. Even a well-used purse can lose the sharp definition that this item has. Ergo, ipso facto, and to wit - it's Ennis's super-extra-special folder that never goes outside and that he keeps his most specialest small, flat possessions in - the postcards. :)
Maybe he took it out so that it could sort of be present at The Numbering of the Mailbox. "Jack, I swear, I wish you could send me another postcard to box #17."
(Since there IS some space between what we know and what we believe, I'm going with this enjoyable imagining, at least for a while.) :)
Nice sleuthing, Toast and everyone.
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