TOTW 18/08: The lines from the trailer

[sel]

Great posts! I will save this page and go back to it now and again to keep my 'old habits' at bay.

[fernly]

"There are places we can't return"

When I was re-reading the SS, I noticed two references that I'd skimmed over before...
At the time of their last trip together, Ennis isn't living in Riverton, he's "...in Signal where he was working now for Stoutamire's cow and calf outfit"
and also, "...Ennis was ready to head back to Signal, Jack up to Lightning Flat"

In the movie, he's living, or at least getting his mail, in Riverton at the time of Jack's death. And his trailer is outside of Riverton.

Why the change in the movie from the story do you think?

And why did Annie have him go back, at some point after the divorce, to where he'd met Jack?

[Jeff Wrangler]

"There are places we can't return"

When I was re-reading the SS, I noticed two references that I'd skimmed over before...
At the time of their last trip together, Ennis isn't living in Riverton, he's "...in Signal where he was working now for Stoutamire's cow and calf outfit"
and also, "...Ennis was ready to head back to Signal, Jack up to Lightning Flat"

In the movie, he's living, or at least getting his mail, in Riverton at the time of Jack's death. And his trailer is outside of Riverton.

Why the change in the movie from the story do you think?

Could just be a mundane movie-making consideration. They already had "the Riverton Post Office" to film Heath with the returned postcard. It eliminates need for more exposition in the script. I don't seem to remember Signal being mentioned by name after Jack offers to give Ennis a loan when they get to Signal. 

[loneleeb3]

Hey, those posts are great.
Maybe one of the most important messages the film has: that we should never be afraid to love, never miss the opportunity to show it, nor to receive it, and always try to put love before our own pride and material wants?
 

Sometimes though, thats just so hard to do.

[optom3]

Sometimes though, thats just so hard to do.

That is soo right, and pretty well sums up me.It is often easier to toe the party line and as such upset as few people as possible.We all want to be liked as well as loved.In some cases the accepting of one, means the automatic invoking of the other. Very, very difficult.
The other fact that rings through a lot of peoples personal experiences, is that even when trying to do  "the right thing" ultimately you end up being so miserable, that the very people you were trying to protect become wounded all the same.