brokeback clerical errors (ladies dancing)

[fox]

bought three tickets to brokeback mountain online so i could be sure to get them before the damn place sold out.  got to the theater, and only ellen_fremedon was there to join me.  swiped my credit card at the automatic box office thinger and got four tickets.  blinked a few times, checked at the literal box office to make sure they were all tickets and not some combination of tickets and receipts (which they were), and promptly sold two of the tickets to people who were disappointed to hear the thing was sold out.  (for a few cents more than face value, i admit -- i paid $9.25 + 44 cents tax, and each payer-back gave me $10.  were we going to get nutty about 31 cents?  we were not.)  checking my e-mail upon returning home, i find that the confirmation is in fact for three tickets.  so it appears i sold a ticket i had never paid for.  try it!  :-D

movie:  well, yes, very good indeed.  and very sad; it hurt my heart, although i didn't cry, which is vaguely surprising because on a scale of 1 to 10, i'm about a 7 when it comes to crying at movies (and whatnot).  the photography was beautiful, also, wasn't it?  whoo.  (it was important to me to see it on a movie screen, rather than waiting for DVD, and i'm glad i stuck to my guns about seeing it today, since today is the only chance i'll have to see it here and it's not playing in my home town.)  and there are definitely some things to have a think about.  in particular, without spoiling anything (though there will probably be spoilers in the comments, if any), there's an important moment in a scene late in the movie that includes a quick flash to another scene; do we think that's real, or in someone's head?

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[darthrami.livejournal.com]

in particular, without spoiling anything (though there will probably be spoilers in the comments, if any), there's an important moment in a scene late in the movie that includes a quick flash to another scene; do we think that's real, or in someone's head?

Given the way it reads in the story, you're meant to think it's real. I'm not sure they did quite as good a job of showing that in the movie, but then I'm also not quite sure it matters, given the point (in my head, at least).

[acejillian.livejournal.com]

I think it's meant to be real considering the facial twitches of the other end of the phone.

My friend and I went to buy tickets for the 5:30pm showing and all of them were sold out until 10. Which we went to, of course :)

It was worth it- the scenery shots were beautiful, but then I don't really expect less with Ang Lee at the helm. I was amazed at Heath Ledger and Michelle William's acting, considering the last thing I saw both of them on was A Knights Tale and Dawson's Creek. Hurrah.

[fafou.livejournal.com]

First off I'm sorry for missing brunch today, but I was up in Timonium with meechem.

In terms of Brokeback I am not sure exactly which scene you're referring to. If it's one with the two of them, it's real. And if the one with just the one of them I think it's real but I think they left it unclear because it's unclear to the other.

Last night i read the short story, it is on paperback in bookstores now for about $10 and it clears up the distinction, yet I try to take a medium for what it is and the short story has the scene with the two of them as a real one and the other scene as a kind of nightmare that the other one has.

But I agree I didn't cry, because I'm not one to cry in movies all that much, but I feel (more than just) sore for both of them. I actually ache for them.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

yeah, i figured the first one was real, a flashback; it's the second one i was talking about. more or less, my thoughts were, is she really lying (or was she really misinformed), or does he just think she's lying (or misinformed).

[fafou.livejournal.com]

I see, yeah I was wondering about that too when I watched it. The short story also keeps it vague. I think it's more that he thinks she's lying and isn't really able to verify the truth. Plus his fears from his childhood.