what fall?
What does title refer to? The fall of what?
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RIGOLETTO: I'm denied that common human right, to weep.
The title is just reversed to make it sound better. It is essentially "the fall of the legends"
shareok, but that still doesn't make any sense
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RIGOLETTO: I'm denied that common human right, to weep.
I am no expert on the meaning, but I understood the narration was talking about the "legend" of Tristan and the Ludlow family. Based on the problems that occurred you could say things went downhill in some manner. There were relationship issues, death of two ladies, Tristan had to leave after the gangster battle, etc. Thus we have "Legends of the Fall"
It could mean the closing of the old West and the advance of the 20th century and modern society.
We got a job.
What kind?
...The Forever Kind.
maybe, I don't know, I still don't really get the name; the old west wasn't exactly a good place anyway, and it didn't fall, it rose up into a more civilized state. Besides, the film wasn't really about the old west (no gun slingers etc.), and it was set too late -- in the early 20th century
the native cultures fell but the story is not about the natives and it starts off long after the fall of the native cultures.
the family sort of got washed up I guess, and Brad's character outlived them all it say, but it never says his kids died without offspring, but perhaps that's what they mean... the end of their family, they do say that he outlived them all, but they weren't exactly a multigenerational dynasty anyway. But again, if its the end of his family, then they would have needed to tell the story of the death of his kids.
maybe its the legend of falling in love, but that's a stretch
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RIGOLETTO: I'm denied that common human right, to weep.
I assumed the title was just in some way referencing the biblical Fall of Man, a kind of transition away from the state of innocence. Seems appropriate for this movie, where initially the characters are sheltered by a father who intends to block out the horrors of the world to preserve his children's' innocence. The Legend of the Fall alludes to their epic journey, and the way hardships, guilt, and hostilities stripped away their naivety.
Course, I also like the idea that it may also in part reference the fate of the West. You say the West didn't fall, and in a sense you're right. Yes, the West was successfully civilized and modernized. But at the same time, that also represented a fall of the free frontier, including many of the Native American traditions that hold great sway in this film. The West was bought up, sectioned off, and no longer could someone stake out a land of their own just through a pioneering attitude. The closing of the frontier is a concept dating to 1893, but a clash between what the West was and what it would become occurred throughout the ensuing decades, in which the film is set. Its just my opinion that Legends of the Fall was infused with too much nostalgia for the West of old to not in some way be a lamentation of its demise.
Bingo ^^
In fact, the promos for this film used that quote exactly. "It was the fall from innocence" Basically just referring to the family and the constant decline that is set up from the beginning when the brother returns home.
You should try smiling with your mouth closed...