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Friend's parents (mother) hated movie because there wasn't romance.
Rayn:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on May 15, 2006, 10:55:36 am --- ...someone is doing something romantic when he's going above and beyond to appeal to/be with his beloved.
Jack was I guess more romantic than Ennis - he proposed to him, basically, for godssake. He laid it all out there, only to be disappointed again and again. And to have kept those shirts like he did all those years! Hell. Ain't nothin' more romantic than that.
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Yes, what a wonderful way to put it too, ednbarby,"going above and beyond to appeal to/be with his beloved." So true.
Jack was the more romantic. But I'll tell you what... Jack's heart and mind tell us a whole lot about Annie P. Now there's a mightly romantic woman... am I right? Romantic but in touch with reality. I bet she is and I love her for being that way.
Rayn
starboardlight:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on May 15, 2006, 10:55:36 am ---... And to have kept those shirts like he did all those years! Hell. Ain't nothin' more romantic than that.
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that's true. that certainly restored my faith in Love.
ednbarby:
My heart skips a beat with every viewing when Ennis says, "I can't believe I left my damn shirt up there," and Jack says, "...Yeah."
Rayn:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on May 15, 2006, 02:21:29 pm ---My heart skips a beat with every viewing when Ennis says, "I can't believe I left my damn shirt up there," and Jack says, "...Yeah."
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I know, mine does too, ednbarby! I love Jack, what a sweet guy.
Rayn
wolf:
Howdy Brokies :)
Just found this forum and have enjoyed an hour or so of reading your thought provoking posts!
I'm been a member of Dave Cullen's forum for a few months now, and saw a reference to bettermost there. Had to check it out :D.
Tell you what, truth is, it's the most romantic story (in whichever medium) in the known universe. I keep coming across friends of friends who found it unromantic and frankly, the mind boggles. I do this :o, every time I hear the complaint. Were they anaesthetised before going in? Synapse problems? WTF!
It's searingly, acheingly, jawdroppingly romantic. Something about the way men 'do' romance is deeply compelling. It's the very contrariness of it, I think, tho that theory needs a little work. Rather than romantic vulnerability hinting at emasculation, these two seem to be at the height of their masculinity. Experiencing it fully, as it were. We're so unaccustomed to seeing, or in fact ALLOWING, men to be fully male, that some (the dumbass mules) don't even recognise the unique beauty of the male expression of love when they see it.
Back to yer beans ;)
W
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