There are so many scenes I'd love to step into.
I think I'd like to first step into the parting scene from 1963 and jump in front of Jack's truck and tell him to turn around to go get Ennis and I'd tell Ennis to get in that truck and talk to Jack.
Their first camping trip: I'd tell Ennis to pursue that sweet life and like the ghost of Christmas Future I'd warn him that if he keeps turning Jack down,one word is going to haunt him forever- the word yes- that's all you have to say and things will be different for you both.
The divorce scene: I'd tell Jack not to go anywhere; I'd grab Ennis and shake him and tell him that that man just drove 14 hours all full of hope and you are not going to send him away like that. While Ennis drops the girls off I'd tell Jack to stand up for himself and we'd share that knowledge that it wasn't Alma or the girls keeping them apart and then we'd call Ennis out on that.
The confrontation scene: First of all I want to just hug them both. I wouldn't jump in and stop it because they need to get those things out of them. But after the fight was over I'd make each sit on either side of me while I mediated the issues and offered up my opinion and advice and pretty much say that this has gone on long enough, you're both suffering because you want so badly to be together etc etc so we need to reslolve this now. Then I'd warn them that they are not leaving until there is a real resolution and introduce them to my stubbornness.
At the Twist Ranch- I'd like to just smack Papa Twist and maybe unload a few vulgarities on him for what he did to Jack.
Jack's death- First of all I wish I could jump into that scene with a gun and shoot those men and save Jack. But if I was powerless to that and too late in arriving, I'd roll him over, hold his hand and comfort him so he wouldn't be laying there dying alone. :\'(
If I had to limit myself to just one scene I'd have to pick Jack's death (I have yet to watch that in it's entirety- I can't bear to) but I'd want to be there for him; he deserved better than to not only die like that but to die alone.
I have often thought about that scene by the river when they took their first fishing trip. Ennis refers to "this thing" that grabs them. If I were Jack I would have wanted to say...
"Ennis you talk about this thing between us. I don't see it as a thing. For me it's love. That may be hard for you to hear, but we're out here all alone. I'm not ashamed to say that you have been the most important person in my heart since we were up at Brokeback. If you wanna hit me, go ahead. The first punch didn't change my feelings."
CSC, I couldn't agree more. If I were there, I would have hit Ennis on the head and say "it's called Love, stupid."
LJN, CSC and Tpe......
Why are you doing like that? You know, you're just killing me!!! I'm at work, alone in my office, crying rivers to the point I can not breathe....... :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
However I don't want to change neither scene, 'cause if the story were different it wouln't be so beautiful, so heartbreaking, so deep, and we all wouldn't be here. They did as much as they could in that wrong place and wrong time they were living. Though all of us had talked to Ennis about living with Jack (divorce scene,confontation scene....)he never had done anything about it because his terrible fears!!! Though they were not married, Ennis' fears would have been stronger than their love, you know that, we all saw that in BBM. Look:As you wish, at the end of the summer of 1963, Jack give Ennis a ride, then they have more time to speak. Jack is brave so he ask Ennis for a life together and then Ennis.......tell his Earl and Rich's story!!!!!!
;and the same thing at the reunion scene, at the divorce scene, again and again. It doesn't matter how many and hard times we speak to him about losing Jack, about love, about living together.....Ennis only realized, only learned with Jack's death. So Jack's death, so unjust, so horrible, so cruel, was almost necessary, and, as Annie P. said, it was the only way to resolve their problems, their complicated situation, their hurted relationship.
It is hard for me to say that :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
However, if I really had to be to just one scene I would be with Ennis after Jack's death, just in the
Jack I swear scene, and I would tell him: Friend, I only want you to know one thing about that trip that hurt you so much;listen, when Jack went to Mexico,
he was crying..... :\'( :\'( :\'(
That is the only thing I want Ennis to know.....Is the only thing he never knew about his Jack in the film, just the thing is hurting us so much.....Jack was not happy making love with another man in Mexico as Ennis thought perhaps........Omg, Jack's tears.
Sorry for my english. Oh Brokies please don't write posts like those, it is not good for my PBS; I'm so sad now.
