Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 7214323 times)

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"E" is expecting
« Reply #10790 on: February 02, 2007, 12:55:24 am »
Jack told Ennis he was expecting that he might get shot by Lureen or his "girlfriend's" spouse, if he were caught slipping around.

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"F" is fire's
« Reply #10791 on: February 02, 2007, 12:58:48 am »
"The horses nickered in the darkness beyond the fire's circle of light.  Ennis put his arm around Jack, pulled him close...."  [story]

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"G" is guilt-ridden
« Reply #10792 on: February 02, 2007, 01:13:56 am »
Ennis was so guilt-ridden about having to tell Jack that they wouldn't be able to meet in August that he postponed telling him until the last minute.

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"H" is husband's
« Reply #10793 on: February 02, 2007, 01:22:49 am »
Jack tells Ennis that he fears that a jealous husband's gonna shoot him, if he gets caught in his slipping around.
« Last Edit: February 02, 2007, 01:34:08 am by Toast »

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"I" is idealism
« Reply #10794 on: February 02, 2007, 09:17:50 am »
By this scene, Jack's idealism seems to have died. 
ENNIS: "You got a better idea?"
JACK:  "I did, once."

« Last Edit: February 02, 2007, 09:20:46 am by southendmd »

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"J" is job-hop
« Reply #10795 on: February 02, 2007, 09:46:54 am »
Because Ennis used to job-hop in the earlier days, he would quit jobs, but he couldn't afford to do that now, saying: "Jack, I got a work. Them earlier days I used a quit the jobs. You got a wife with money, a good job. You forget how it is bein broke all the time."
« Last Edit: February 02, 2007, 09:51:53 am by Memento »

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"L" is lake
« Reply #10796 on: February 02, 2007, 09:55:04 am »
In the screenplay we learn that this night scene takes place at a lake camp in the Wyoming Mountains in 1981:

ENNIS and JACK are sitting around the campfire, close. JACK rolls a joint.
JACK is restless. Pokes at the fire with a stick. Looks up at the night sky, clouds churning past the moon.

                JACK
        It's gonna snow tonight for sure.
           (look)
        All this time, and you ain't found nobody else to marry?

           JACK lights the joint, takes a drag.
« Last Edit: February 02, 2007, 10:02:06 am by Toast »

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"M" is May
« Reply #10797 on: February 02, 2007, 10:21:27 am »
"In May of 1983 they spent a few cold days at a series of little icebound, no-name high lakes, then worked across into the Hail Strew River drainage."  [story]

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"N" is nothingness
« Reply #10798 on: February 02, 2007, 11:12:42 am »
Ennis felt like he had sunk into nothingness, saying to Jack: "It's because of you, Jack, that I'm like this. I'm nothin'. I'm nowhere."
« Last Edit: February 02, 2007, 06:53:39 pm by Fran »

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"O" is overwhelms
« Reply #10799 on: February 02, 2007, 01:36:16 pm »
The emotional intensity of their words overwhelms Ennis.