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Shuggy:
Just to note that at this moment, with 31 votes, the trend is clear: Older men and younger women prefer Jack, younger men and older women prefer Ennis. Of course this is far too few votes to be scientific, even if it weren't self-selected. If you haven't voted, please do so.

Penthesilea:

--- Quote ---older women prefer Ennis
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:'( I'm an older woman  :'( Didn't know this till today. Maybe it's time for me to take my midlife-crisis  ;)
Just kidding.

I fit into the trend. I'm over 35 and prefer Ennis. But I think I would have preferred Ennis in my twenties, too. I have always been into the quiet and solid men. I'm together with one since we both were 17, going on 18.

serious crayons:
I would have preferred Ennis in MY 20s, too. Though he would have been in his 30s -- a little old for me back then.

Heath, on the other hand, would have been about 5, so that wouldn't quite work, either.

Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: Shuggy on May 05, 2006, 04:53:46 am ---Just to note that at this moment, with 31 votes, the trend is clear: Older men and younger women prefer Jack, younger men and older women prefer Ennis. Of course this is far too few votes to be scientific, even if it weren't self-selected. If you haven't voted, please do so.

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I haven't been back to this thread for a while and just thought to check in to see how things were going. Of course this isn't in any way scientific, but Shuggy's summary more or less bears out my "hyphothesis." No, I'm not trying to claim that anything has been proved, just finding it fascinating that the people who have voted in this poll are as of now voting the way I had a suspicion things would go: Older men and younger women preferring Jack, older women and younger men preferring Ennis.

ednbarby:

--- Quote from: julie01 on April 24, 2006, 01:10:06 pm ---I am over the age of both of them put together when they first meet...
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GAH!  You *had* to remind me!

As for pretty vs. solid...  I don't see Ennis as solid so much as pessimistic (or some might say realistic).  I think Jack is capable of being in it for the long haul with the person he really loves, so a lack of solidity isn't his problem.  There's a great deal to be said for eternal optimists.  Some call such people fools, but I think the optimists are the ones who change the world.  Without them, we'd all be shuffling around like Ennis, old before our time.  I know I'm getting out of the scope of this conversation a bit, but Jack has come to represent the very essence of hope to me in my recent viewings.  And as a line in one of my other favorite movies goes, when hope dies, we die.  Jack was what kept Ennis alive - what made his otherwise misesrable existence worth having.  And then some.

Given the choice to change, for better or worse, or to live forever in my cold comfort, I'd take the former.

Get busy livin', or get busy dying'.  Damn right.  ;)

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