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

[Fran]

"Love is love, Brokeback Mountain tells us: beautiful, painful, empowering, and tragic.  The fact that it comes between two men makes it no different or less real than any other great love.  We see it here in a way no other movie in history has yet accomplished:  haunting, compelling, and profound."

-- Rob Vaux, Flipside Movie Emporium

[Meryl]

Ennis winked at Jack's admission that he was seeing the ranch foreman's wife down in Childress and had to keep looking over his shoulder, laughing and saying "You probably deserve it."

[southendmd]

Ennis was looking for xculpation, when he told Jack in the motel that he thought Jack was "sore from that punch".

[southendmd]

Round 494!
Together evermore

[memento]

Jack and Ennis left Brokeback with no strings attached, but after they both had tied the knot, they realized they were stuck on each other.

=aside= Paul
Great round announcement.

[Fran]

Jack and Ennis's feelings for each other developed into a binding relationship, but Ennis's fear of societal retaliation kept them from living the "sweet life" proposed by Jack.

[southendmd]

There was a definite chemical attraction between Jack and Ennis. 

[memento]

After shooting the elk, Ennis became even nearer and dearer to Jack.

[Fran]

Proulx wrote:

They went at it in silence except for a few sharp intakes of breath and Jack's choked "gun's goin off," then out, down, and asleep.

[Meryl]

Ennis and Jack's relationship was founded on a genuine liking for each other which later grew into love.