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

[memento]

Jack said that if he had the education, he could have xperimented with the hippie lifestyle.

[Toast]

Round Five One Six
Ang Lee

How Many Scenes Did You Nix?

[Toast]

Thanks to Ang's discretion and good judgment, we have no hippies in the finished Brokeback Mountain.   But we still want to have a peek at what James Schamus created.

[Fran]

ENNIS expertly gets his horse alongside the bus, looks inside to see a bearded, beaded Dead-head at the wheel, and two beautiful hippie coeds giggling, crowded together in the front seat.

[2004 screenplay]

[memento]

EXT: WYOMING HIGHWAY: NIGHT (NEAR DAWN): 1963:
A cattle truck, running empty, tops a ridge on a lonely western highway.
To the east, the first faint flush of light.
Across the plain, perhaps yet some twenty miles away, a sprinkle of lights like fallen stars on the vast dark plain.
The truck roars on.
[2004] screenplay

[Toast]

EXT: CHILDRESS, TEXAS: RODEO ARENA: NIGHT (EVEN LATER STILL): 1966:

LUREEN, perfectly coiffed, the only female among a lot of ragged cowboys, happens to stand next to JACK.

Sideways look.  Likes him.

          PHOTOGRAPHER
     Say cheese.

JACK and LUREEN smile.

Flash goes off.

          LUREEN
     Mr. Twist, it was real nice of you to pick up my hat.
       (smiles at him)

          JACK
       (genuinely abashed)
     No big deal..it just fell off practically in my lap.

LUREEN, direct, smiles again.

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                    ENNIS
          Come on now, "through the window, girls
          first...I can take the two of you
          together.
 
The girls giggle at Ennis's unintended double entendre.

                    GIRL 1
          Thanks, man!
 
As she pushes her way out of through the window, we see her braless profile fall into Ennis's arms.

[Fran]

EXT:  CHILDRESS, TEXAS:  RODEO ARENA:  NIGHT (EVEN LATER STILL):  1966:

LUREEN, perfectly coiffed, the only female among a lot of ragged cowboys, happens to stand next to JACK.

Sideways look.  Likes him.

          PHOTOGRAPHER
     Say cheese.

[2004 screenplay]

[Toast]

3  EXT: SIGNAL, WYOMING: MAIN STREET: DAY (LATER): 1963:  3

Lighter still.

The truck stops with a screech of air brakes in front of a service station just opening for the day. An OLD MAN is rolling a tractor tire as big as he is into the garage.

ENNIS steps out of the truck, no suitcase, just a grocery sack stuffed with his only other shirt and pair of Levi's.

The truck moves again, almost before he hits the ground, spraying him with dust.

Tall, raw-boned, lanky, possessed of a muscular, supple body made for the horse and for fighting--he stretches, looks at the OLD MAN, who looks back at him sourly. One of ENNIS'S boot heels is worn, has to adjust for the turn of the heel as he walks.



No one in sight on the streets of Signal. After a moment, carrying his sack, ENNIS walks over to the OLD MAN, who is balancing the tractor tire against a pillar.

                    ENNIS .
          'Scuse me. Might you tell me where the
          Farm and Ranch Employment Office is at?

                    OLD MAN
              (not as sour as he looks, points)
          In that there trailer house. Three
          blocks down. You'll see it.

ENNIS nods, tips his hat, starts off.

                    OLD MAN   
          Don't let that goddamn Joe Aguirre send
          you up to Brokeback without no thirty­
          ought. There's coyotes and coyotes up
          there, they'll eat your damn sheep and
          your damn jackass, too. With a thirty­
          ought, you might hold your own.

ENNIS, surprised by this torrent of words, clears his throat.

                    ENNIS
          Sir?

The OLD MAN kicks at the tractor tire a time or two, as if irritated it exists. Looks at ENNIS.

                    OLD MAN
          Where was you raised, bud?

                    ENNIS
          Uh, Sage.

                    OLD MAN
          Why, that ain't hardly in Wyoming, that's
          nearly to Utah. You ain't a damn Mormon,
          are you?

                    ENNIS
          No, sir. I just never heard of no place
          called Brokeback.

The OLD MAN points to a long, barren mountain to the north, its upper reaches miles away, reaching well above the tree line.

                    OLD MAN
          Don't you let that damn Joe Aguirre
          send you up there with no twenty-two. Coyotes
          don't mind a twenty-two. Make sure he
          gives you a thirty-ought.

Too much talk for ENNIS, who nods his thanks.
Looks up at the mountain as he walks off.

[2004 screenplay]

[Meryl]

Tall, raw-boned, lanky, possessed of a muscular, supple body made for the horse and for fighting--he stretches, looks at the OLD MAN, who looks back at him sourly. One of ENNIS'S boot heels is worn, has to adjust for the turn of the heel as he walks. [2004 Screenplay]