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Production Mistakes I think they Made on the Movie
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: forsythia12 on March 02, 2008, 01:11:00 am ---
maybe aguirre was sneakin' in for a closer look while the boys were busy? ;D
wow guys. i never noticed this stuff before, and i thought i'd watched the movie a million times. maybe i was in denial and didn't want to see mistakes.
i'm almost scared to watch the movie again now! :o
lol
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let not your heart be troubled,
the film is still the masterpiece that it always has been. just about every movie has a continuity error or two and costume dramas always get hit with verisimilitude errors. I am a Hitchcock nut, and my fav Hitch movie of all time, and up there in the top 5 of all my fav films ,is "Vertigo". In Veritigo there is a continuity error that always make Hitch nuts like me LOL! These errors in BM just make me love the movie all the more, it has flaws just like I do!
Katie77:
--- Quote from: brokeplex on March 02, 2008, 08:01:05 pm ---not enough space in the packs carried by the mules to haul up enough food for those dogs and some feed for the horses too ! And where did Ennis keep the dog food up in the pastures? I never saw them feed the dogs. I'm just worrying about the dogs, that is all ???
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Maybe it was the starving dogs that killed that sheep Ennis found after TS1.
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: louise van hine on March 02, 2008, 01:22:48 am ---I don't understand this at all. I am familiar with three sects of Protestantism, and all of them have in common an aversion to 'Jesus objects.' My mother's family used to deride the Catholics who moved into our neighborhood for their 'idolatry', and images of Jesus and Mary, because it was against their sect's precepts to wear crosses or to have images of Jesus or Mary, even on and in their churches. The religious objects in the Twist home are what I have seen in the PRotestant homes among which I grew up: a simple biblical homily on the wall such as 'Bless this house' and a simple unadored cross. That is what my grandparents had in their house, or a Desiderata, and one simple cross.
And, having had family who were old style settlers, their farmhouses were as unadorned and stark as the one pictured in the Twist household. I don't know how you can chalk up to 'production mistakes' items that to me, belonging to a long line of Protestant believers, seems to match pretty exactly.
A 'mistake' is something like Jack straightening up from a shot where he places a piece of wood, and in the next shot, the piece of wood he has not touched has magically vanished, which I noticed today... or the hood of the truck being ajar in the first shot and being firmly closed in the next shot with no one closing it.
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Well Louise, it appears that you haven't been in many Southern Baptist or Pentecostal homes in the rural areas of the red states recently . SB homes and Pentecostal homes of the devout, especially in rural areas are chock full of religious objects, usually with Bible verses stitched, painted or embossed on. Plaques, wall hangings, "Last Supper" pictures, "Gethsemane Garden" pictures, and praying hands statuettes out the wazoo, not to mention the ubiquitous pine box that the Bible is kept in on the coffee table.
3 Protestant "sects"? Sorry, but you have me puzzled now. There are dozens and dozens or Protestant denominations in the US. In my home town (pop < 3000) back in the 1960's there were 10 protestant churches but no Roman Catholic churches at all. And also the Jehovah's Witnesses, I'm not sure where they fit in on the denomination flow charts.
I think that it really is odd that a person of such pronounced religiosity as Mother Twist would not decorate with a stronger religious theme in her house, except for the one Jesus picture we see in the kitchen.
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: southendmd on March 02, 2008, 02:19:31 pm ---Regarding the credits listing so-called "extras", I believe early versions of the script had speaking scenes for some of them; specifically the waitress in Signal and the assailants. I don't know the rules about their inclusion in credits if their scenes eventually get cut.
Interestingly, some early sources used to list the cast including Valerie Planche, as if she were some major star; when in actuality, the actors were listed in order of appearance (or non-appearance as the case may be).
Tatoo girl really does stand out. Very odd choice of casting.
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the credits puzzled me and I wondered if something interesting may have been cut, I mean as obsessive as some of us Brokies get, we'd love to see some of the deleted scenes especially if they had dialog from these "missing" actors.
glad you noticed the tatoo girl too!
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: Katie77 on March 02, 2008, 08:07:27 pm ---Maybe it was the starving dogs that killed that sheep Ennis found after TS1.
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interesting point ! I never considered that !
I hadn't considered that because the dog was keeping watch and whining over the gutted ewe when Ennis rode up. maybe the dog really was protecting her kill? probably if the dogs were hungry enough to kill a sheep, which is what Jack wanted to do, they might turn feral after the kill and just go off with the coyotes and stalk game on Brokeback.
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