I think the purpose of the line was to show us how sensitive Randall was to these little clues.
JohnT, you and I should go to the flicks together.
“Jack, I swear…” I thought of this line while driving home from the movie and nearly had to pull over. You can’t drive too well when you’re losing it.
I was pissed at Jack's father for not letting Ennis take the ashes to BBM and scatter them. I kept hoping Ennis would dig them up and take them anyway. But he didn't get to take them in the story, either.Well except the Jack’s dad obviously knew what the deal was. So did his mom. That’s exactly why didn’t want anything to do with Ennis; he didn’t want to finally give over his son to the person he no doubt thought corrupted him.
The Brokeback Mountain DVD releases on Tuesday, April 4th. For those of you who haven’t seen it, or want to see it again, and you subscribe to Netflix or Blockbuster Online, you should bump it to the top of your queue before Monday, which is when they’ll ship it.
I hope they’ll include the wacky outtakes at the end.
Hoping for outtakes and deleted scenes, too. And I for one would like to hear “Water Walking Jesus” in its entirety, if there is such a song.
I’m doing that right now. BTW Willie Nelson’s inspired cover now has a video here. I think it is quite amusing.
Thank you for that link! Now, if they’d just include it on the DVD, I couldn’t ask for anything more.
That was fun. Thanks for sharing it. Burt Reynolds can be such a girl, cain’t he?
LOL. That he can. Heck if he can be best buds with Charles Nelson Reilly, he can be anything!
I assume you meant to write “can’t” with the “i” added for that charming little twang?
LOL. If only that were true, but HEY! It works! :smack:
I dunno darlin’, you feelin’ charmed? 
Sometimes charmless, but rarely humorless.
Speaking of accents…Did you get a load of Willie Nelson’s pronunciation of “cow” as “kyow” in that song? That’s exactly the way Jack Twist starts to pronounce it after spending so much time in Texas, as noted in the short story.
I couldn’t quite see with the resolution such as it was, but does anyone know if one of the more prominent cowboys was Jim White?
I watched this movie last night on DVD and figured I would respond to this post. First of all, I didn’t think the sex scene in the tent was all THAT graphic. I guess I was bracing for something else after hearing all the hype when the movie was in theaters. Having said that, I couldn’t help but be sort of taken out of the movie during the kissing scenes…mainly because that really WAS Heath and Jake making out with each other. I don’t know about other straight guys, but I kept thinking, “Hmmm. I wonder if they were bothered by any of that? I wonder if they had to joke around or drink a bit or whatever before shooting those scenes?” Not that I was disgusted or anything…I was just curious about went on behind the scenes.
As for the movie itself, I think I’ll like it more on a second viewing. I don’t mind a slow-paced movie but there were times when my mind drifted away from the story and I missed some important detail. Also, there were a few times when I had to rewind and turn on the close-captioning to understand what was being said (especially the film’s final line).
Also, that damned theme music. I had to bang my head against the wall for a few minutes to get those six or seven guitar notes that were CONSTANTLY playing throughout the entire film! ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!
Other than that, I thought it was a pretty good movie. And I will watch it again and, like I said, I think it will be more effective on a second viewing.
Oh, and as a straight guy watching Anne Hathaway’s topless scene? Grrrrrrrrrr, baby…very, very grrrrrrr!
From what I’ve gathered from various sources over the past few months, the actors were somewhat nervous about the tent scenes, but they found ways to use those feelings as part of the performance. Also, it’s all choreographed. They said it wasn’t as if Ang Lee just turned the camera on and told them to go at it.
They did joke that it was like a breath of fresh air to have scenes with the ladies in the film.
Bear in mind that I am paraphrasing from memory here, but I think I have it mostly accurate.
I’m glad this thread was revived, because I was thinking about BBM the other day. It seems the consensus on deviantART (demographic: young, liberal, American) is “It’s not bad but overrated, and the uniformly rave reviews are just because the critics don’t want to look like nazis, and it’s a good thing it didn’t win all those Oscars because it didn’t deserve them anyway, and Crash is better.” I agree with all those points except that Crash is better, but it seems I’m in the minority here. Explanation?
I have a theory that the vast majority of people on dA are accepting of gays/have gay friends/are gay themselves and so feel comfortable dissing a gay movie. But it feels lacking. Surely there’s more to it.
You might be right, but i’m sure it’s probably a bit more complicated than that. People’s motivations are always difficult to guess at.
I really wanted the movie to be good, and i thought it was good. If i thought it sucked, i would have had no trouble saying so.
In fact, i really wanted Crash to be good too, but i thought it sucked and have no trouble saying so.
I thought it was a really touching movie. I think that is one of hte few romantic movies I’d ever watch twice, aside from punch drunk love.
I have heard people say that neither was gay or would’ve become gay had they not met each other. I don’t agree with that (I read the reviews after I got back from the theater). My impression just a few minutes into the movie was that Jack was born gay and Ennis was born straight but never really felt like he could connect to other people until he met Jack just by how the acted and looked at each other (pretty good acting on their parts that they can both give off subliminal social signals like that). I remember when they met again in 67 and they start passionately making out, then Ennis runs upstairs to prepare to leave and when his daughter runs up to him he picks her up and just hands her to his wife. That to me spoke alot about what Ennis the character was like inside, just a straight guy who didn’t feel connected to anyone else.