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Offline ednbarby

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So many subliminal messages, so little time...
« on: February 02, 2007, 11:54:34 pm »
Tonight, I noticed something new.  Again.  I noticed that that first house Ennis and Alma have on that "lonesome old ranch" is blue with a black roof.  Was Ennis drawn to this house for this reason?  Or was it configured differently when he found it, and he painted it that way?  Either way - wow.



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Re: So many subliminal messages, so little time...
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2007, 02:53:48 pm »
Tonight, I noticed something new.  Again.  I noticed that that first house Ennis and Alma have on that "lonesome old ranch" is blue with a black roof.  Was Ennis drawn to this house for this reason?  Or was it configured differently when he found it, and he painted it that way?  Either way - wow.

Ooooh, I like it.  :o  :D

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Re: So many subliminal messages, so little time...
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2007, 05:04:06 pm »
I would like to see a screen cap of this!!
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Re: So many subliminal messages, so little time...
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2007, 06:09:07 pm »
I would like to see a screen cap of this!!


Your wish is my command. Or at least I tried, but I'm not sure if I got the correct pics, since I'm not sure what Barb is getting at.



Tonight, I noticed something new.  Again.  I noticed that that first house Ennis and Alma have on that "lonesome old ranch" is blue with a black roof.  Was Ennis drawn to this house for this reason?  Or was it configured differently when he found it, and he painted it that way?  Either way - wow.

Barb: This is the first house Ennis and Alma life in, the "lonseome old ranch". But it's not blue and its roof is not black.  ???





We see a somewhat bluish/greyish building (a barn/shed?)  with a black/anthracite roof in the background when Ennis unloads the horse(s):



Did I think of the correct scenes? Or did you mean something different?

(BTW and a little ot here: I just LOVE Ennis in this scene. With the horses, I mean. He's sweet with Alma, too and I adore him with his girls - but the short piece with the horse somehow does it to me *sigh*)

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Re: So many subliminal messages, so little time...
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2007, 06:17:18 pm »
Not OT at all--you're right he is so loving with his horses.

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Re: So many subliminal messages, so little time...
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2007, 06:35:17 pm »
There's that radio that pre-introduces us to Monroe.

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Re: So many subliminal messages, so little time...
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2007, 09:42:31 pm »
You have the right house, Pen.  I'll tell you what.  On my "Collector's Edition" DVD, that house is *no kidding blue* with a black roof.  I wondered if I was just seeing things when I watched it last night, so I just watched it again.  Maybe it's the eff'ed up color on my TV or maybe they actually changed it since the original (I notice they fixed something else - where it always used to sound to me like Heath was saying "See you Sundays, ladies" right before he goes off "fishing" with Jack, the "s" at the end of Sunday is gone now), but it's definitely a light slate blue and that roof is (or at least appears to be) black as night.

Or maybe I'm just still seeing things.  ;)
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Re: So many subliminal messages, so little time...
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2007, 05:15:46 pm »
There's that radio that pre-introduces us to Monroe.

I never noticed this before. I re-watched the scene. I can't fully get what is said on the radio. But apparently it's an advertisement. It's something like "....you remember the next time you go shopping.....shopping cart...."
That's all I can understand.



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Re: So many subliminal messages, so little time...
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2007, 05:25:45 pm »
You have the right house, Pen.  I'll tell you what.  On my "Collector's Edition" DVD, that house is *no kidding blue* with a black roof.  I wondered if I was just seeing things when I watched it last night, so I just watched it again.  Maybe it's the eff'ed up color on my TV or maybe they actually changed it since the original (I notice they fixed something else - where it always used to sound to me like Heath was saying "See you Sundays, ladies" right before he goes off "fishing" with Jack, the "s" at the end of Sunday is gone now), but it's definitely a light slate blue and that roof is (or at least appears to be) black as night.

Or maybe I'm just still seeing things.  ;)

I guess it depends on the settings of your TV. Like the much discussed darkness/brightness of TS1 and TS2. Remember that discussions last year, when the DVD came out  ;D? I can't believe it's *that* long ago. And yet, here we are, still... and no intention to let go....  :D

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Re: So many subliminal messages, so little time...
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2007, 01:31:26 am »
(I notice they fixed something else - where it always used to sound to me like Heath was saying "See you Sundays, ladies" right before he goes off "fishing" with Jack, the "s" at the end of Sunday is gone now)

Thank you! I've never been able to figure out if he says "See you Sunday, ladies" or "See you Sunday, [at the] latest."

And BTW, what is that line Ennis says at the very end of the movie?  :laugh: :laugh: Kidding.

If they can fix things for the DVD, I wish they'd fix the "guhls" in the grocery-store scene!  ::)