Clouds

[Front-Ranger]

The new autumn colors of the Bettermost Board reminded me of something I've bean meaning to bring up here. In the movie, there is a beautiful shot of two clouds taken on the first evening there on the mountain. There is a deep blue, almost black cloud on the right, and on the left is a cloud that is all enflamed in orange glow reflected from the sun. The interplay of Ennis and Jack seems to be playing out in the sky.

Another example is one of the first scenes when the Farm Employment trailer is shown for the first time. There are two stratus clouds that stream from left to right, coming together over the trailer. To me, the clouds seem to embody the destinies of the two young men which are about to coincide. Other important cloud sightings??

[moremojo]

One other possibly significant cloud presence in the film is when Ennis steps out of the Twist home in Lightning Flat, and stands for a moment looking solemnly to his left (reflecting on the grieving plain?). In this shot, there is a large cloud over the house that some maintain looks like the letter 'J'. The argument goes that this cloud, with other visual elements in the frame, spell out JACK.

[Meryl]

One other possibly significant cloud presence in the film is when Ennis steps out of the Twist home in Lightning Flat, and stands for a moment looking solemnly to his left (reflecting on the grieving plain?). In this shot, there is a large cloud over the house that some maintain looks like the letter 'J'. The argument goes that this cloud, with other visual elements in the frame, spell out JACK.

I remember that!  Here is a photo, followed by one I marked up, though I can't remember for sure how the person marked it on the other thread.  Fascinating observation.

[moremojo]

Thanks, meryl; I was a bit off in my recollection. I remembered a cloud being there, and now see it for a 'C'!

[Meryl]

As Aguirre drives up, there are two clouds that could represent Jack and Ennis:

[Dafna]

Clouds do seem to be a theme that continues to run through the movie. I find very few movies to be visually pretty but BBM is one of the prettiest movies I have ever seen. And I'm not just talking about Jack and Ennis 

[Front-Ranger]

I'm looking forward to more cloud sightings when we watch the movie together in chat tomorrow.

[Ellemeno]

And we know that clouds are one of the main things the CGIers worked on.  So it's very possible.

[Cameron]

Just wanted to add my opinion on the Clouds cause I always notice these, the best clouds to me was after TS1 when Ennis was riding on the ridge and the cloulds over his head went from light to very dark as he was riding across the screen.

[Meryl]

Oh yeah, good example, marlb.  The clouds on that ridge say so much about how the mood of the movie just changed.