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Another clothing question......
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on January 18, 2007, 06:22:47 am ---I have always thought Ennis kills two coyotes: the one with balls the size of apples, and the one that killed the sheep while Ennis was having TS1 with Jack.
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I wonder if the one with balls the size of apples was the one Jack missed? ;D
--- Quote ---Why Ennis was hammerin' the first night, but then jacketless the second: By the time he crawls into the tent for TS1, it's very, very late at night, he's been sleeping directly on the ground, with no fire. The very next night, for TS2, I picture that they are going to bed basically directly after dinner. He's been sitting up off the ground by a warm fire, and the sun has only been set for a while. And they are highly motivated to be wearing as little as possible.
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Sounds reasonable, though I wonder about Jack sleeping in his coat the night of TS1 and not even wearing a shirt at the beginning of TS2.
Somewhere I picked up the notion that the sack Ennis is rooting through, looking for his shirt as they stand by Jack's pickup, was an old feed bag. I guess I ought to check the story, or the screen play.
And of course, as Katherine suggests, the paper bag Ennis carries at the beginning "bookends" the paper bag Jack's mother gives him for the shirts. To be completely honest, though, I've always felt that bag that Heath carries at the beginning is unrealistically small--can't be more in it than a rolled up shirt and a tootbrush--and I find it difficult to believe that anybody is that poor. Heck, homeless people on the streets of Philadelphia drag more stuff around with them than Ennis has when he gets out of that cattle truck. :-\
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 18, 2007, 09:53:40 am ---. Heck, homeless people on the streets of Philadelphia drag more stuff around with them than Ennis has when he gets out of that cattle truck. :-\
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Ang Lee probably didn't think it would be as poignant an image to show Ennis pushing a grocery cart up the street.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on January 18, 2007, 01:08:43 pm ---Ang Lee probably didn't think it would be as poignant an image to show Ennis pushing a grocery cart up the street.
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;D
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 18, 2007, 09:53:40 am ---
Sounds reasonable, though I wonder about Jack sleeping in his coat the night of TS1 and not even wearing a shirt at the beginning of TS2.
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Same reasoning - it's freezing during TS1, and he's thinking that Ennis's company is unlikely. For TS2, he knows Ennis is out there pondering the "should I or shouldn't I" of going in. So he's ready, in case. Hopeful.
mouk:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on January 18, 2007, 01:08:43 pm ---Ang Lee probably didn't think it would be as poignant an image to show Ennis pushing a grocery cart up the street.
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:laugh: :laugh:
Paperbag: the screenplay says: 'just a grocery sack stuffed with his only other shirt and a pair of Levi's
As for the time elapsed between TS1 and TS2 : very interesting Marlb about Jack having to wait for his clothes to dry before going up there. Ennis could not have stayed up there for a long time without food, but it is quite possible that he did not come down the night after TS1 and that Jack joined him the next day.
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