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

[memento]

Brokeback Mountains screenwriters, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, have given Proulx’s tale a breath and a scope that has been missing from screenplays since the days of Giant and Broken Arrow and The Big Country. The characters, especially the wives who are barely mentioned in the short story, come to exuberant life on the screen. Ang Lee has a knack for developing character and using surroundings as a way to reflect and to reveal character. The players are not subordinated to the rolling hills and the mountain animals, as they were in such films as Dances With Wolves and Legends of the Fall. You didn’t need actors in those movies; the cinematographers and the animal trainers did all the work. Lee lets his actors do the work, and they all triumph.

Movie Review by Sheri McMurray

[Fran]

A prediction from Anne Thompson of The Hollywood Reporter:

"Becoming an Oscar contender should push Brokeback  into must-see territory, as it did Philadelphia."

[Meryl]

The scene in the kitchen after Thanksgiving dinner begins with Alma's nosiness about Ennis's relationship with Jack and ends with raised voices and a hasty exit.

[memento]

The bikers were unconcerned about offending anyone with their filthy remarks, so Ennis mopped up the floor with them.

[southendmd]

Jack was taken aback by Lureen's upper frontals, which she pendulously presented to him in the backseat of LD's car.

[Fran]

Naturally aged piñatas shipped from Mexico are among the many props that help lend realism to the Juarez scene.

[Meryl]

Considering Old Man Twists' saturnine expression and unwelcoming body language, it wasn't surprising that he never extended a hand toward Ennis in greeting.

[memento]

The New York Times had an article describing how Western fashions depicted in the film, “Brokeback Mountain,” were the newest trend sweeping through the fashion world.

SO "Brokeback Mountain" did not win the All-Around Champion award at the Oscar rodeo after all, despite odds in its favor. Its upset on Sunday is the stuff of cowboy legend, if not quite the Alamo. But the movie can lay claim to an achievement that no other film of 2005 can. With its representation of two plain cowboys who fell in love in plain old Western wear, it hit the fashion bull's-eye. Cowboy boots, snap-button shirts and big ol' belt buckles — standards that have come and gone several times before — are striding back into style.



Fashion Goes West

[southendmd]

Lashawn spoke unendingly, even while dancing.

[Fran]

Joe Aguirre hired herders to watchfully tend his sheep during the summer grazing.