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

[Fran]

          ENNIS
I don't like damn hippies.  Un-American if
you ask me.

[2004 screenplay]

=reply= Sandy
No doubt about it.

[memento]

The hippies are in a brightly painted Volkswagen bus.

[Toast]

JACK, frustrated, rides back to shore, takes off his boots and wades back in with the rope, manages to get it over the bumper.
 
ENNIS goes over to help JACK, who is wading out.

                    JACK
              (annoyed)
          My hat's probably to Laramie by now.

[2004 screenplay]

[southendmd]

Although the hippie scene was cute, many would agree that it was eminently xcisable.

[southendmd]

Round Five-One-Seven
Looks like Hippie Heaven!

[Fran]

ENNIS lights a cigarette.  Looks down at the distant highway.

                    ENNIS
          Look at them cars.

                    JACK
          What?

                    ENNIS
          I used to wonder... warm nights, we'd all
          sit on the front porch, mom and dad, my
          brother and sis and me.  The highway was
          four miles away, and you could see it, a
          long line of lights, and I could sit
          there like a fuckin' dog for hours, just
          sit there wondering where they were all
          going.

                    JACK
          No highway by our house, just a dirt
          road.  If somebody showed up on it at
          night, they'd usually be poaching
          antelope. (braids the quirt)  Good huntin'
          around our place.  Maybe we could head up
          there at the end of September, before the
          big snows hit.  Get a few antelope
          ourselves.

[2004 screenplay]

[Meryl]

EXT: BIG HORN MOUNTAINS, WYOMING: DAY: CONTINUOUS: 1973:

ENNIS and JACK see a brightly painted VW bus going along a narrow little mountain road.

                    ENNIS
          If it's a hippie, we ought to scalp him.

Up ahead of the bus, they see a creek, swollen from runoff. But the bus doesn't slow....

                    JACK
          Can't that fool see the creek's in flood?
 
                    ENNIS
          Probably high on drugs. May not have even
          noticed that creek, music's too loud.
 
...and the bus, music blaring, heads right into the water. Makes it halfway across...stops, water at window-height. Yells are heard.
 
ENNIS and JACK lope down the ridge.

[memento]

Jack considered himself to be hipper and cooler than Ennis saying: "Yeah, you're pretty square, aren't you?  If they only knew just how square you are!"

[Fran]

Ennis directs Jack to try to get a rope on the bumper of the VW bus while he unloads the passengers.

[southendmd]

Ang deleted the hippie scene and others for purposes of spareness and economy.  If he didn't think the scene added anything important to the characters, it was axed.