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Very random questions that pop to mind when thinking of BBM:
EnnisLovesJack:
--- Quote from: DavidinHartford on April 19, 2006, 05:20:33 pm ---When the boys parted after Brokeback, Jack drives off and Ennis follows on foot. Why the hell didn't Jack offer Ennis a ride? They were going the same direction! :-\
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I have always wondered that!!!!!!!!!!! That question burns a hole in my mind. I mean, it would have given Jack at least a few more minutes with his beloved. And who knows what might happened....Might have avoided the whole marrying someone else fiasco. Plus, it's only polite.
Brown Eyes:
I bet that even if Jack had offered Ennis a ride, Ennis would have declined. It's pretty clear (at least to me) that given the punch and his dismissive attitude during their last conversation that Ennis is trying hard to force himself to detach. I'm guessing Jack sensed this. Also, I think Jack was genuinely mad about the punch. I'm sort of glad that Ennis felt guilty about that for their 4 year separation (I love that it's clearly eating at Ennis enough to bring it up in the motel conversation).
EnnisLovesJack:
Hope I'm note repeating anything here...
In the story, it says specifically that Ennis wears neither underwear nor socks. So what why does Ennis wear socks in the movie? ???
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: atz75 on April 30, 2006, 10:34:36 pm --- I'm sort of glad that Ennis felt guilty about that for their 4 year separation (I love that it's clearly eating at Ennis enough to bring it up in the motel conversation).
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I bet that was at least some of the reason for his distress in the alley scene.
TJ:
--- Quote from: hopefulheart on April 19, 2006, 04:46:48 pm ---Who told Ennis what there is in Mexico for guys like Jack?
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Literarily speaking, it must have been Larry McMurtry. But, in the way that I read the short story weeks before I saw the movie, I believe what Ennis had heard about Mexico had nothing to do with Jack going there to have sex. What he had heard was that queers got killed in Mexico, too, IMO. I have met guys from Mexico who would confirm that fact and that only "bottoms" were considered to be "queer" in same-gender sexual contact, those who were tops could claim to be "straight."
Annie Proulx never wrote in her narrative that Jack even went to Mexico. He only claimed he had been after Ennis asked "Been a Mexico Jack?"
The only reason that Jack even brought up the subject of Mexico in the story was he wanted to meet someplace where it was warmer than the high altitudes of Wyoming. Jack was getting older, he was 39 you know, and the fact that he had all of those bone injuries from riding bulls, he apparently suffered from arthritis and rheumatism, too.
(My older sister's 2nd husband was a rodeo bull rider a long time ago. Many of his current health problems are related to his rodeo days.)
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