Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 5674496 times)

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"O" is overcame
« Reply #10730 on: January 31, 2007, 02:41:53 pm »
The powerful emotions of the moment overcame Ennis.  Me too.


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"P" is prostitutes
« Reply #10731 on: January 31, 2007, 02:50:09 pm »
When Jack confirmed Ennis's fears that he had gone to Mexico to meet prostitutes, Ennis threatened him: "What I don't know, all them things I don't know...could get you killed if I should come to know them."

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"R" is remembers
« Reply #10732 on: January 31, 2007, 02:54:29 pm »
As Ennis drives away, Jack remembers "the time that distant summer when Ennis had come up behind him and pulled him close, the silent embrace satisfying some shared and sexless hunger."  [Proulx]
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"S" is satisfies
« Reply #10733 on: January 31, 2007, 03:00:29 pm »
ENNIS hums quietly.
Nothing mars this moment for JACK, even though he knows that ENNI5 does not embrace him face to face because he does not want to see or feel that it is JACK he holds - because for now, they are wrapped in a closeness that satisfies some shared and sexless hunger, that is not really sleep but something else drowsy and trenched - until ENNIS, dredging up a rusty phrase from the childhood time before his mother died, says:
                ENNIS
        "Time to hit the hay,  cowboy, I got to go."        [2003 screenplay]



=aside=
The phrase "Time to hit the hay,  cowboy, I got to go" contains the only occurrence of the word 'cowboy' in Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain.
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"T" is tossing
« Reply #10734 on: January 31, 2007, 03:14:42 pm »
After Ennis left, Jack stood there remembering how Ennis came up behind him and embraced him that distant summer when they were on Brokeback. And how "they had stood that way for a long time in front of the fire, its burning tossing ruddy chunks of light, the shadow of their bodies a single column against the rock." [Proulx, short story]
« Last Edit: January 31, 2007, 09:56:09 pm by Fran »
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"U" is unmarred
« Reply #10735 on: January 31, 2007, 03:20:59 pm »
The knowledge that Ennis would not then embrace him face to face did not affect Jack's fond memory of the dozy embrace; it remained unmarred.
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"V" is vacillates
« Reply #10736 on: January 31, 2007, 03:35:58 pm »
Jack Twists loses his cool as Ennis vacillates once more over the timing for their next rendezvous.

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"W" is Wroe's
« Reply #10737 on: January 31, 2007, 03:39:22 pm »
ENNIS:  "Lighten up, Jack. We can hunt in November, kill a nice elk. Try if I can get Don Wroe's cabin again. We had a good time that year." (story)
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"X" is xistentialism
« Reply #10738 on: January 31, 2007, 04:20:52 pm »
An excerpt from Stella Papamichael's interview of Ang Lee for the BBC:

Q:  "The script was knocking about Hollywood for a long time...."

A:  "It was almost four years ago I read the short story and then the script.  I think this is one of those great scripts that had never been done and was just floating around.  James [Schamus, producer] mentioned it was something quite special and asked me to take a look, and when I read the short story, I got quite choked up.  When one of the characters says, 'All we got is Brokeback Mountain... everything is built on that,' it strikes me as some kind of xistentialism.  Towards the end... I got tears in my eyes."
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Round 393 !!!
« Reply #10739 on: January 31, 2007, 04:25:12 pm »
Round 3 - 9 - 3

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