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Friend's parents (mother) hated movie because there wasn't romance.
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--- Quote from: wolf on May 23, 2006, 08:33:47 pm ---"having a lend" is an old Australian and English expression meaning "are you taking the piss?", or "are you joking?"
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Thanks for the explanation, Wolf. But it brings up a whole new question. Do you guys say "are you taking the piss?" to mean "are you joking?" That's a new one for me, too.
--- Quote from: Aussie Chris on May 24, 2006, 05:20:47 am ---Well all I can say to that is Strewth
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And Chris, LOL, you said "strewth" once before and I wondered if it was a misprint or a real word or what. I was going to ask you about it at the time and then thought better of it, recalling my cluelessness about "check your chubby" or whatever it was, a phrase I guess I should have known.
Anyway, as far as Australian idioms go, sorry to be so ignorant, you guys, but it's fun learnin em.
Now back to topic. I sure wish Ang had given us some more evidence of how "the brilliant charge of their infrequent couplings" never changed through the years. I know, I know, he's trying to make us feel their pain. But the way it comes out it almost suggests just the opposite. From the reunion on, we only see them even so much as touching each other in that one final two-second tent scene, and then they're clothed and sleeping.
:-\ >:( :'( :(
belbbmfan:
exactly latjoreme.
I'm thinking about one of their last fishing trips where they're riding the horses through the river. Jack just looked so sad, tired, as he did in the Final Lake Scene. Over on IMDB, there have been fierce discussions about the fact that at the end, Jack was ready to quit Ennis (hence his 'I did once'). I found that an unbearable thought! As Annie said 'You can't have Jack without Ennis'. Damn!
wolf:
latjoreme, sorry, yes, 'are you taking the piss' is the same as 'are you joking'. I'll let Chris have a lend of you regarding 'strewth' ;). I take it you're available for exhanges of idiom, in the meantime. I have some questions brewing!
Chris, mate, if you're a granddad then I'm a grandma. working class indeed ...... snicker snicker snort snort. and by the way, you forgot 'by jingoes'.
looks like we're all agreed that The Second Thing line is a corker. might give it a test drive and see if it has the same naughty when said by a 42 yr old housefrau, to her tired hubby, right in the middle of The Soccer - exchanging the whiskey-straight-from-the-bottle for sleepytime-tea-in-a-flora-mug. Saucy!.
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Aussie Chris:
--- Quote from: belbbmfan on May 24, 2006, 01:15:12 pm ---I'm thinking about one of their last fishing trips where they're riding the horses through the river. Jack just looked so sad, tired, as he did in the Final Lake Scene. Over on IMDB, there have been fierce discussions about the fact that at the end, Jack was ready to quit Ennis (hence his 'I did once'). I found that an unbearable thought! As Annie said 'You can't have Jack without Ennis'. Damn!
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I agree belbbmfan, and I go so far to say that in spit of the Randall thing, Jack would never have quit Ennis. The argument was the turning point but we never get to see how their relationship might have panned out if Jack hadn't died. One thing we do know from the short story is that they torqued back the way they were after Ennis breaks down ("nothing resolved" and all that). I don't think "I did once" confirms anything. You're certainly right about how sad Jack looks when riding horses, Ennis doesn't look much happier, but then again he never really does!
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--- Quote from: Aussie Chris on May 25, 2006, 09:27:02 am ---Ennis doesn't look much happier, but then again he never really does!
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I'm sorry to keep disputing you, Chris, but yes he does! He almost always looks happy around Jack (and vise versa), which is why this sequence is so disturbing. Otherwise, much of the time on Brokeback, at the reunion, in the scene where he's getting out of the truck at their campsite and Jack's already there. Even in the post-divorce scene, his eyes light up when Jack appears, though of course he looks a lot less happy by the end of the scene.
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