The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[Fran]

When the gate is shut on the horses, JACK pops his glove against his leg a time or two... looks at ENNIS, who is lighting a cigarette.

JACK:  "Guess I'll head on up to Lightnin' Flat.  See the folks for a day or two."

ENNIS:  "Somethin' I been meanin' to tell you...."  [screenplay]

[memento]

"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 tranced..." [screenplay]

[Toast]

Ennis has spent all week avoiding the topic of rescheduling the August fishing trip to another month, namely November - for elk, maybe.

[Fran]

Jack objects to the change in plans:  "November?  Well, what in the hell ever happened to August?  Christ, Ennis.  (pause)  You know, you had a fuckin' week to say some little word about this."  [DVD subtitles]

[memento]

Ennis pays the price for telling Jack that he can't meet in August because he has to work to pay child support.

[Toast]

The horses drank and Jack dismounted, scooped icy water up in his hand, crystalline drops falling from his fingers, his mouth and chin glistening with wet.

“Get beaver fever doin that,” said Ennis, then, “Good enough place,” looking at the level bench above the river, two or three fire rings from old hunting camps. A sloping meadow rose behind the bench, protected by a stand of lodgepole. There was plenty of dry wood. They set up camp without saying much, picketed the horses in the meadow.    [Proulx]

[Fran]

"What Jack remembered and craved in a way he could neither help nor understand was the time that distant summer on Brokeback when Ennis had come up behind him and pulled him close, the silent embrace satisfying some shared and sexless hunger."  [story]

[Meryl]

"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. The minutes ticked by from the round watch in Ennis's pocket, from the sticks in the fire settling into coals." [story]

[Toast]

Somehow Jack untwists Ennis's emotional and physical rage, and gets him into his pickup to drive home. 

"Nothing ended, nothing begun, nothing resolved."

[Fran]

Having spent a pleasurable week exploring the vastitude of the Wyoming mountains, Jack and Ennis load the horses and gear into their trucks and prepare to say goodbye.

def. = immensity; vastness