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Characters, Quotes & Scenes / Re: Jack's Dying Wish
« Last post by davidinnyc on Mar 09, 2018, 05:09 AM »
Finally, about the blue parka scene: In the short story it's made clear that Jack and Ennis don't actually ever go back to Brokeback Mountain. They make trips to a variety of other places but never back to Brokeback. I don't think the movie makes a statement about that one way or another. It just shows them on different trips in similar settings. So you're right, davidinnyc; Lureen didn't know about BBM all those years. It was only when Ennis told her that he'd spent a summer there with Jack and she put that together with Jack saying it was his favorite place that she understood the importance of both BBM and Ennis in Jack's life.
Thanks for your reply FlwrChild. You got me rethink about the whole thing. In the movie, the whole story is mainly narrated from Ennis' perspective, as Ennis is the leading role and Jack is the supporting role. Jack's life was only depicted through several short scenes across 20 years, so there are a lot of things we do not know about his life and a lot of different possibilities when we try to fill in the gaps. In the movie, the last time Ennis and Jack got together, Jack joked about seeing the ranch foreman's wife, which we all know is Randall. Jack jokingly said "he is scared that Lureen or the husband may shoot him if they find out". But that might be an actual fear in life and he knew death may be somewhere waiting for him if it gets find out. So that could be why he thinks about dying wish and told Lureen about it. Another thing is that someone mentioned old Newsome died before Jack's death a while ago in the SS, so that could also be a time to bring up the dying wish thought for Jack as someone in the family died. Like I said, much of Jack's life was never mentioned, so there are a million ways we could fill in the blank.
Another part of Jack's dying wish that I didn't mention was cremation. Since I had doubts about the whole dying wish thing in the beginning, the first time I heard "cremated" in the movie, my hunch was that cremation would be the perfect way to destroy evidence if he were killed. But cremation would be the only possible way for him to go back to BBM after he dies. So in that regard, it makes sense that Jack wants to be cremated.