Funny, but in my first veiwing, I swore I saw Jack looking at Randall when he asked Lasahwn to dance. Which one was he addressing (privately or publically)? - probably just me, but each time I see it Jack seems to be flirting a bit with Randall.
YES! He WAS looking at Randall! Randall even looks startled when his wife pipes up and agrees to dance with Jack. Jack's definitely playing a little game there.
Cara
OH yeah, and he's no newbie at it either. Way out of Randall's league, although of course Randall doesn't know that.
Dal
YES! He WAS looking at Randall! Randall even looks startled when his wife pipes up and agrees to dance with Jack. Jack's definitely playing a little game there.
Cara
i know this should be on another thread but i want to respond to what you guys said:
well he surely was looking at randall, but right after jack asks lashawn to dance, he shoots randall a very telling glance. i think he says "YOU MIND?" it's almost hostile. his eyes widen and his head cocks forward, as if to drive home a point. to me, it was like jack KNEW that randall was gving him the eye, and by asking randall's wife to dance, he was stopping randall, and again, driving home a point: don't fucking cruise me in front of our wives. i'm going to dance with your wife to prove, or at least make it seem, like i'm straight.
(one wonders what randall and lureen talked about when jack and lashawn were dancing)
now, think about that scene, or study it the next time ya'll see the movie, and hopefully you won't think i'm wrong. he's very direct, and the look in his eyes when he does that, at least to me, is more than just a random look. he was telling randall NOT to play games.
jack wasn't dumb here, he'd learned early on that what he did with men could get him in trouble. remember "seeing" him thinking, when the bartender told him that maybe he should try calf roping? he knew what was up, that jimbo had his number, and that any "games" he played could get him in a heap of trouble. he slammed the money on the bar after telling the bartender, basically, to eff off.
i have a feeling that ang lee described the scene and went into detail about how he wanted jake to play it out at the dance with the wives. it was very obvious to me that jack was aware of randall's flirting, and wanted to put a stop to it pronto.
then, when they were outside, jack was more lenient. with the two of them alone, he tested randall by asking "...ever notice how a woman will powder her nose.." before and after a party? he asks, "why powder your nose just to go home to bed?"
to me, that was jack addressing his suspicion that randall was gay and coming on to him at the party.
but randall is clueless at this point and doesn't pick up on the meaning of jack's question. if randall were straight, he might have chimed in with "well, maybe it's cuz the party's not over when we get home, hehe."
but no. there's silence, and jack changes the subject, talking about how roy is a good guy.
randall agrees, the starts in on his notion of the two of them getting drunk at the lake. "...get away, you know..."
jack then realized what he suspected was true. randall wanted a "fishin' buddy."
the realization renders him speechless, and then the women come out.. of course, the audience then laughs because lashawn is STILL talking a blue streak. however, the depth of the situation was not lost on me, and as the lashawn's conversation ends with "...boy we were behind the times..." i was still reeling from what had just gone down between the two men.
---- now, i swear:
deegilles -- i too loved how ennis inhales the scent of the bloody shirts. i noticed also how he sniffed his own shirt as he was in a rush packing up to go fishing that one time.
he also smelled alma jr's sweater a bit as he was folding it up in the last scene.
i'm sure there are other scenes where he's sniffin other things too... he seemed to be inhaling the scent of jack in the flashback scene. did he sniff his socks as he took them off to bathe up on brokeback? i forgot. there seems to be something going on with the sense of smell here.
perhaps ang lee wanted to convey the sense of smell and sensibility.