The poor kids totally in love with this girl, travels all the way from another country and through hostile land to be with her and she blasts him to pieces and ends up with the guy hes travelling with? What a beepin beep!
Its on a par of romantic tragedy with Romeo and Juliette
what do you mean
blasts him to piecesShe shoots him with a shot gun or breaks his heart? is the kid bad or just unrequited love? share
Hardly equal to Romeo and Juliet - this was a tale of unrequited love. She did say, earlier in the film, that he's like the little brother she never had. She never had romantic feelings for him, and at the end says his heart was in the wrong place. His getting shot by her because of his storming in certainly wasn't her fault.
There's also the very obvious (and I THINK played for laughs) shot of a jar of salt getting shattered above his dying body, and he literally has salt poured on his open wounds as he watches the native American kiss the love of his life on her cheek.
OUCH...that poor kid got destroyed...
I laughed out loud at that part and it really screwed up the tone of the scene.
"World needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door"
He was an idiot for just running in the room while there was a gun fight going on.
He should have said "Hey it's me the guy stuck in the friend zone!"
He should have said "Hey it's me the guy stuck in the friend zone!"
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Yeah, he really didn't belong there.And throughout the whole journey he held onto his illusions of grandeur, thinking that once he made it to Rose that everything would be perfect and just fall into place.She tried to warn him, subtle hints here and there...not wanting to hurt him,yet even still he ignored this and in a haze of lovesick blindness caused his own death.All the while refusing to believe or give in to the truth of the matter.
He was just a immature kid really, pouring all of his love into something that wasn't meant to be.However, in doing so he brought Silas and Rose together, which ends up being an unforeseen "happily ever after". I really enjoyed seeing the film end in this way, and looking back at how everything played out realized that that was what was meant to be.That was the pairing that was destined to happen,not Jay and Rose.As the film revealed more and more about the characters I began to feel like Rose was better off with someone else. Jay just didn't have the skills to survive in the west, so how could he have even begun to care for Rose?
It just wasn't meant to be, and (in my opinion) the film makes that very clear as they got closer and closer to their destination.
i can't remember to forget you.
Totally agree with this. Throughout the film you tend to root for Jay and hope he gets the girl but you know deep down it won't have a happy ending. I think he probably knew this too. There was an early warning for the viewer when he tries on the suit in the shop and there is a bullet hole right where he later gets shot. We see from the scenes in Scotland that this was an unrequited love.
It's a sad ending in some ways for Jay but he did love her with all his heart and he saved her life with his last action whilst also bringing her and Silas together. He did everything for her, and this would probably give him comfort.
He was a man or, better, a boy in love, all the rest was of no importance, not to him. He didn't realize she didn't reciprocate and she looked for her owing to his love but also out of his sense of loyalty. And yes, indirectly he helped bringing Silas and Rose together. At the end, all of them have lost something and gained something and a very weird family has been formed. This is lovely, touching and extremely of our days.
shareAww yes poor wee baby
And lol at comparing it to Romeo and Juliette like this movie won't be totally forgotten by everyone in 10 years time
For us, there is no spring. Just the wind that smells fresh before the storm.
he shouldve shot her instead of the bounty hunter. he travelled all that way to save her for nothing.
shareI really liked the movie, but you never do what he did and burst in unannounced in a situation like that. Still, that's the story!!
The salt shot was like Wile E. Coyote. Hopefully intended as some gallows humour.
She's a man, it's a sled, he's dead already.