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Question about a particular scene
ednbarby:
My goodness. Yet another beautiful bit I've missed in *all* my viewings. Thank you, Nipith and Fern. Now I have yet another "something new" to look for the next time.
Aussie Chris:
--- Quote from: starboardlight on April 26, 2006, 07:52:45 pm ---that was me. yay! someone read that post. hardly anyone responded to that. i thought i was alone in seeing the significant of it.
any who. i loved seeing those two men every times. a hint that may "real sweet life" may have been possible after all.
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Arrgh! I'm sitting here racking my brain and I can't remember a "bus station". I've only seen the film a dozen times and it has been a couple of weeks after all. But help! I'm still a bit of a newbie with the symbolism stuff (normally lost on me) but I'm trying.
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: Aussie Chris on May 02, 2006, 03:50:11 am ---Arrgh! I'm sitting here racking my brain and I can't remember a "bus station". I've only seen the film a dozen times and it has been a couple of weeks after all. But help! I'm still a bit of a newbie with the symbolism stuff (normally lost on me) but I'm trying.
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Allow me to assist. The bus station/diner is where Ennis is picking at that apple pie when Cassie and Karl/Carl come in. There's a Greyhound busline logo over the counter, and the two cowboys are seen standing at it as if they're buying a ticket when they come in.
Aussie Chris:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on May 02, 2006, 10:34:26 am ---Allow me to assist. The bus station/diner is where Ennis is picking at that apple pie when Cassie and Karl/Carl come in. There's a Greyhound busline logo over the counter, and the two cowboys are seen standing at it as if they're buying a ticket when they come in.
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Aaaaah, so that was a bus station? Thanks Barb. I thought I was going crazy, not that I'm not of course. ;)
TJ:
The "bus stations," especially in the small towns and wide places in the road along the Highways of the USA, were like the Old American West History days when stagecoaches had to stop and get fresh horses and/or take on or let off passengers and other things carried on the stage.
In those stagecoach stops, one could often get something to eat. In the movie, the restaurant which was used was not exactly one of those bus station restaurants; it looked more like that the restaurant owner took over the bus stop franchise after the local bus station (owned by the bus company) had closed. I have been in those types of places back in the days when I took a trip on a bus, the first was back when I was 5 years old and the last was in January 1992, when I moved back to Tulsa, Oklahoma.
In the scene where Ennis is eating the pie and Cassie comes in with her current boyfriend, I am at a loss where they were headed when she saw Ennis at the table. Since they were going to the back of the building on purpose, were they going to use the restrooms first?
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