Author Topic: My long, rambling defense of Brokeback Mountain  (Read 14560 times)

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Re: My long, rambling defense of Brokeback Mountain
« Reply #30 on: November 30, 2006, 07:14:38 am »
Yeah - I had never seen it before and noticed it in the latest posts list. I admit that a good few of these subtleties mentioned were lost on me.

as for the classical lit - english was never my best subject!

VG piece and a good bump as more and more people see it on HBO.

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Re: My long, rambling defense of Brokeback Mountain
« Reply #31 on: November 30, 2006, 09:08:37 am »

But mostly thank you Katherine for your treatese in defense of BBM. I too have learned new details from your "rambling(s)", this, 11 months after my first and probably a 100 subsequent viewings.

Same here! I had never noticed the "wrapped bread" detail, nor the 2 cowboys at the bus station (can anyone please remind me when this scene takes place? I cannot place those 2 cowboys).
I have only seen BBM about 15 times, 5 of which at the theater. Good excuse for not having noticed everything, but good excuse too for watching it again. And again. And again...
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Re: My long, rambling defense of Brokeback Mountain
« Reply #32 on: November 30, 2006, 10:33:51 am »
I had never noticed ... the 2 cowboys at the bus station (can anyone please remind me when this scene takes place? I cannot place those 2 cowboys).


The bus station scene is also known as the Ennis eats apple pie scene - when he last makes Cassie cry - ... remember "Ennis, girls don't fall in love with fun!"
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Re: My long, rambling defense of Brokeback Mountain
« Reply #33 on: November 30, 2006, 02:02:56 pm »
Thanks Roland! I'll check that up.

Also, do you pronounce Aeneas the same as Ennis in English?
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Re: My long, rambling defense of Brokeback Mountain
« Reply #34 on: November 30, 2006, 06:53:57 pm »
But mostly thank you Katherine for your treatese in defense of BBM. I too have learned new details from your "rambling(s)", this, 11 months after my first and probably a 100 subsequent viewings.

And let me in turn thank everyone here (and at imdb) from whose posts most of these details were lifted, over the course of many months of intense discussion.

 :-* everybody!

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Re: My long, rambling defense of Brokeback Mountain
« Reply #35 on: December 03, 2006, 06:02:33 am »
Thanks, Noviani! What a nice compliment. I'm packing my suitcase.  :D
BTW, last week i get my 2 best buddies, and my sister to watch BBM!!!!
and to my surprise, because my sister coming to watch, My husband who has been very anti to BBM, actually sat and watched!!

though he left to the other room during reunion scene (the kissing). only to get back and ask : did Alma knew? with a curious face... :-\

well, i don't think i am getting any new Brookies follower but hell, at least they now what i am talking about when i started my yida yida on heath, jake, or humming the guitar song.
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I finally found an Indonesian-translated version of BBM short story!!!!!
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Re: My long, rambling defense of Brokeback Mountain
« Reply #36 on: January 25, 2007, 02:02:57 am »
bump
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Re: My long, rambling defense of Brokeback Mountain
« Reply #37 on: October 12, 2011, 02:24:41 pm »
This definitely deserves a bump!

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Re: My long, rambling defense of Brokeback Mountain
« Reply #38 on: October 12, 2011, 07:53:08 pm »
This definitely deserves a bump!

Thanks, Paul! I just went back and read that old email. It's been a while since I thought about all of those things. That must have been a pretty good movie, hunh?  ;D

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Re: My long, rambling defense of Brokeback Mountain
« Reply #39 on: October 12, 2011, 09:57:02 pm »
Thanks for the bump, Paul!  And thanks, Katherine, for your insight and eloquence.  I don't know how I managed to miss this thread, but I did.  You brought up things I hadn't noticed to this day.  I love, love, love our movie!  :-*
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