I wonder if the lovely Jake could be persuaded to rub some cards over his body so that they could be included as scratch and sniff cards in a few lucky DVDs,
Wow tpe,
I like it! Primal/Primitive! I'm going to have to go to this Motel scene thread (which I obviously haven't read) coz I think I might like it!
Rosie
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I hope deodorant was part of the supply packages. Otherwise they would've gotten pretty ripe. But you are right , Smells are asscoiated with a person"s presence. Even if their not around. This must have came in handy during their long separations. Probably why Jack stole the shirt.
Speaking about smells, I bet I can identify some of my hot friends blindfolded just by smell alone *^) Sort of like pheromones....
wow rosie that was really nice word i love it and i think that they probaly did kinda keep the smell of each other thats why i think jack had ennis' shirt anyway so he could smell ennis'
Well I was just thinking if they ever bring out a Brokeback mountain deluxe edition with deleted scenes, I wonder if the lovely Jake could be persuaded to rub some cards over his body so that they could be included as scratch and sniff cards in a few lucky DVDs, like they do with golden tickets in Crisp/Potato chip packets? Just so that we could check it out for ourselves. However rare they were I personally would not stop buying DVDs until I got one! ... Hell I bet the people on this site alone would make Brokeback the top selling DVD of all time!
It is a pity that Jack's shirt and jacket do not retain any scent. Or perhaps I am not sensitive enough to detect it. To be sure, they were not washed.
Well, I couldn't smell anything either Thomas....and you can be damn sure I tried :iI remember. ;) This, and Ennis's pajamas!!!! :)
Everyone has their own unique smell . Jack's was decribed in the SS. Apparently it was intoxicating to Ennis. I usally associate smells with presence. Suppose Jack and Ennis did too.
I think both guys took a long hard whiff of each other and fell in LOVE and couldn't get enough of each other, Jack taking Ennis' shirt was a way to keep him with him, including his smell.
I think Ennis probably DID smell Jack on that shirt, even though it probably wasn't actually still there after 20 years but his memory of it could not be taken away
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I still find it amazing that we can talk about smell in a movie. The sense of it is so strong that we can actually even talk about it.
It is a pity that Jack's shirt and jacket do not retain any scent. Or perhaps I am not sensitive enough to detect it. To be sure, they were not washed.
Yes, somehow, you know that the person is there with smell, and not just when you see them...
Did Jack's scent change over the years -- especially as he because more well-off? Like his clothes, I suspect that it did change.
Perhaps Jack's scent did change to outsiders, but I believe the basic scent stayed the same. The odor produced by the body's hormones and pheromones which could only be sensed by someone he was intimate with would stay basically unchanged.
Sure the mixture of smells was different; not cheap tobacco and dirt, but rather Cubans and expensive perfume. But after a few days in the mountains with Ennis, he wouldn't have smelled like lilac soap and cocoa butter moisturizer. IMO
I reckon love can be experienced through the olfactory senses and by it we can remember, even if only wistfully.
I'll be right over and we'll inhale deeply, Jack Nasty's shirt, perhaps a little deeper... ;)
I trust your olfactory sensitivity, ragtimecowboy. But as rick65 said, perhaps we have to have been intimate with the wearer in order for us to detect the basic scent! :)Well it never hurts to dream and what a dream that would be to have and to hold for awhile! Ennis got a massive dose the second night in the tent. Jack all fresh from his dip earlier in the day in the river, jeans and shirt freshly washed. Fresh scent pooring out of every strategic location on that beautiful buff body and that unfogettable gaze into those dazzling pools of blue as he entered the tent hat in hand. Dizzying you bet! Bond forming for sure.
The smell of your lover, his scent is what draws you to him, like no one else. You know his scent, and crave him. When Ennis was in Jack's room, and found their shirts, he put his face in it to smell the scent of his lover because maybe he can feel him laying next to him again, he could feel the warmth of his body. Ennis wanted that, he wanted again to feel Jack.
Imagine he has to go on without Jack, how painful this will be for him, and all he'll have are the shirts. Shirts are shirts it's a cold way of looking at it, but I could see tears always in Ennis's eyes, because this is as close he'll ever be to his lover of twenty years.
Well, I couldn't smell anything either Thomas....and you can be damn sure I tried :i
Had they worn these clothes to work in for a couple of days, you would have smelled plenty. You were smelling movie stars' shirts that were worn, maybe, for a few hours max, then maybe even washed or cleaned before being worn again. I wouldn't expect to smell anything on them. They also wore deodorant, I'm sure, and took daily baths in their trailors. They weren't real cowboys; their hygiene was about 200% above the real thing. Just MHO.
Well I was just thinking if they ever bring out a Brokeback mountain deluxe edition with deleted scenes, I wonder if the lovely Jake could be persuaded to rub some cards over his body so that they could be included as scratch and sniff cards in a few lucky DVDs, like they do with golden tickets in Crisp/Potato chip packets? Just so that we could check it out for ourselves. However rare they were I personally would not stop buying DVDs until I got one! ... Hell I bet the people on this site alone would make Brokeback the top selling DVD of all time!
Rosie
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The smell of your lover, his scent is what draws you to him, like no one else. You know his scent, and crave him. When Ennis was in Jack's room, and found their shirts, he put his face in it to smell the scent of his lover because maybe he can feel him laying next to him again, he could feel the warmth of his body. Ennis wanted that, he wanted again to feel Jack.so very true, the reality of what he had and what he lost brought on that flood of tears in his eyes. To think that all he had to hold now was 2 shirts when he could have had Jack had he faced his fears. Memories indeed! imagine the effect that even the faintest whiff of Jack's pheromones was having. so sad!
Imagine he has to go on without Jack, how painful this will be for him, and all he'll have are the shirts. Shirts are shirts it's a cold way of looking at it, but I could see tears always in Ennis's eyes, because this is as close he'll ever be to his lover of twenty years.
Annie mentions how Jack smelled a couple of times in the ss. Always, no matter what he was doing or how much he may have stunk, there was a pleasant under-odor that he exhuded. I think she always wanted the reader to know that Jack was desireable, no matter how much physical exertion he may have been doing, or how seldom he may have been able to bathe well. There was something attractive in his personal scent that drew in Ennis, and everyone else who got close enough. I mean, let's face it, being on the road rodeoing and having so little money, Jack couldn't have spent too many nights in a nice motel with good shower facilities. He had to be rank at times. Still, Annie makes it a point to bring up his smell and always concludes her description with something good, like earthiness, or clean air, or fresh hay. This greatly enriches our total picture of Jack. She doesn't mention Ennis's odor, as I recall. That's a mystery.
Annie mentions how Jack smelled a couple of times in the ss. Always, no matter what he was doing or how much he may have stunk, there was a pleasant under-odor that he exhuded. I think she always wanted the reader to know that Jack was desireable, no matter how much physical exertion he may have been doing, or how seldom he may have been able to bathe well. There was something attractive in his personal scent that drew in Ennis, and everyone else who got close enough. I mean, let's face it, being on the road rodeoing and having so little money, Jack couldn't have spent too many nights in a nice motel with good shower facilities. He had to be rank at times. Still, Annie makes it a point to bring up his smell and always concludes her description with something good, like earthiness, or clean air, or fresh hay. This greatly enriches our total picture of Jack. She doesn't mention Ennis's odor, as I recall. That's a mystery.
The refinement of the senses is unique to the human condition. It speaks of a power to see the world as a personal vision.
This discussion reminds me of one of the most powerful lines in the SS where Annie uses her great talent to really nail the atmosphere so you feel that you are there in the room (and wishing you were!):The room stank of semen and smoke and sweat and whiskey, of old
carpet and sour hay, saddle leather, shit and cheap soap. Ennis lay spread
eagled, spent and wet, breathing deep, still half tumescent; . . . .
Man this gets me every time I read it. Talk about erotic, or as Jack would say . . . Whoeee, Yeah!