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

[southendmd]

Cassie wangles an answer, and Junior responds with, "You're good enough".

[southendmd]

Round 752!

The Jake Round!

In honor of Jake's birthday, please post an unplayed word along with "Jake" or "Jack".

[Fran]

Hollywood.com:  You've said that making Jarhead  changed your perspective on the military. Did Brokeback Mountain  change your perspective on anything?

Jake Gyllenhaal:  I wanted you to say, "Did it change your perspective on gay cowboys?" [Laughs] It's very hard to make this experience into a literal one. I think it's about the struggles of two people dealing with intimacy, ultimately. And at the same time, you don't have this ideal idea of love. This thing that you see in movies all the time is, "Oh, it's supposed to happen between these two people." Particularly a guy and a girl -- you are supposed to get the girl, you are supposed to lose the girl, and you are supposed to get the girl again. And when you get the girl again then the whole thing is all good. Then we talk about how sometimes you wake up the next morning, and you are brushing your teeth together, but we don't ever usually talk about that in movies. And when we do it's with a guy and a girl but this was like putting it in an environment where we had never seen it before. If I learned anything, I think it's just when you're working with Ang Lee there is a real benevolence in everything he does. I remember when I saw Sense and Sensibility -- my Mom always says that I walked out saying, "I feel so clean." And I think you walk out of this film feeling kind of devastated in a lot of ways, but also feeling like a real sense of benevolence. And I think the process of making the film produced that, too. I mean, yes, he manipulated us. Yes, in a way, he very gently abused us, but I walked out of this experience going, "There is a real kind of benevolence." If Heath [Ledger] and I could do it, then it should be okay for the real people who are really doing this to do it.

Jake Gyllenhaal:  Finding His Way Up 'Brokeback Mountain'


=aside= Paul
Excellent theme, especially
in light of Jake's b-day!

[memento]

Jack's birthplace was Lightning Flat, Wyoming. Jake's birthplace was Los Angeles, CA.

=birthday greetings=

[southendmd]

While Jack is a native Wyomingite, Jake is a native Californian.

=aside= Sandy
Nice montage! 

[Fran]

In 1963, Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal), a couple of dirt-poor ranch hands, take a job guarding a flock of sheep on Brokeback Mountain, a pristine jutting vista nestled in the lush Wyoming wilderness.

-- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly   

[memento]

Jake is environmentally conscious, recycles regularly, and said in an interview that he spends $400 a year to have trees planted in a Mozambique forest, partly to promote the Future Forests program. 

Wikipedia

=aside= Paul
Thanks, but I can't take credit for it.

[southendmd]

Jake played Douglas Freeman in the film Rendition.

[Meryl]

The casting of Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain sparked the formation of many fan websites whose members are known familiarly as "Gyllenhaalics."

3:54
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUKF695eTFY[/youtube]

[memento]

Jake played the role of Homer Hickam in October Sky.