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

[memento]

Cassie's role was expanded for the screenplay.  Diana Ossana said about Cassie: "Cassie somewhat exemplifies Ennis’s continual denial of his emotional makeup, and his attempts to have what he believed was a “normal” relationship with a woman. After his and Jack’s final confrontation about Mexico, Ennis realizes that it is Jack he truly loves, and he simply cannot continue in his attempts at a relationship with Cassie, thus her confronting him in the diner about his whereabouts and her frustrations and painful realization that she’s not 'the one.'"

[Toast]

The role of Lashawn Malone who chatters foolishly like a squirrel was added in the earliest screenplay; and it survived to the movie as well.

[southendmd]

The screenplay gussies up the character of Cassie, who is only hinted at in the story.

[Meryl]

The reason for the difference between the dates of the Reunion in the story and the screenplay can be conjectured, but it's rather like splitting hairs.

[Toast]

Screenplay Ennis and movie Ennis  implemented a solution to their dietary problems after Jack's complaining about the Bettermost beans.   In the original story Jack seems to have enjoyed the food provided.  Screenplay Ennis shoots a deer, but in the movie it's an elk that bites the bullet.

[Ellemeno]

In the short story, the paired shirts are in the second sentence.  In the screenplay, they are latecomers, seen first together in one of the last scenes.

[memento]

In the screenplay the elk has a meatier role than in the story.

[Toast]

Thanks to Ennis's straight shooting, Jack was able to have lots of meaty noshes to break up the beany monotony in the screenplay, but not in Proulx's prose.

=aside= Sandy
Meatier role - Xcellent one.

[southendmd]

Story Jack indulged in orthodonture whereas screenplay Jack did not.

[memento]

Story Jack had "his front teeth filed down, set with steel plugs, and capped" whereas screenplay Jack did not.

=aside= Toast
Thanks.