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Sheriff Roland:
Jamais Ennis sans Jack - gotta even things out by introducing

The "You gotta feel sorry  :( for Jack" thread


You gotta feel sorry  :( for Jack for never having things go his way - not with shooting coyotes, not with getting soup (no more beans, not with Ennis - well not the way he wanted anyways, not with bull riding ($2,000 a year), not with his relationship with his dad "Christ, he licked the stuffin out a me, knocked me down on the bathroom floor, whipped me with his belt... No way to get it right with him after that.", ... well you get the idea.)


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moremojo:
You gotta feel sorry for Jack when he is rebuffed by Jimbo the rodeo clown. Jack is so vulnerable and naive here, wearing his tender heart on his sleeve as always, and I really feel for him when Jimbo gives him the cold shoulder. I also always worry for his safety when Jimbo goes over to his pool-playing buddies, as if to say to them, "I gotta tell you about this weird guy over at the bar..."--this tense moment foreshadows Jack's possible murder later in the story.

Lynne:
You've gotta feel sorry for Jack when his in-laws visit after Bobby is born.  He smiles at Lureen and there's love in his eyes for his child, but he feels excluded from their little circle and is belittled by father-in-law.  Breaks my heart, that.

Toast:
You gotta feel sorry for Jack as he and Ennis say "goodbye" after they come down from Brokeback.
He tries to get Ennis to commit to return next year, kind of invites him to come up to his daddy's ranch, but fears the best he can hope for is life in the army.

so sad.

TJ:

--- Quote from: Lynne on April 25, 2006, 10:00:00 pm ---You've gotta feel sorry for Jack when his in-laws visit after Bobby is born.  He smiles at Lureen and there's love in his eyes for his child, but he feels excluded from their little circle and is belittled by father-in-law.  Breaks my heart, that.

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What makes it even worse is that Lureen's parents take control when they go into Jack's master bedroom in his house. In the movie, in the hallway is the picture of a horse with two contest ribbons inside the frame.

All of that stuff that happens in Texas with Lureen's parents is not in the original short story.

I feel sorry for the screenplay/movie Jack having to work for a man who hated his guts in the first place. Annie Proulx's Jack never works for the farm and equipment company until after Lureen's (no-name) father dies.

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