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

[Meryl]

When it came to Jack's gift, Ennis was stuck being untactful no matter what he chose--refusing Jack's kindness or offending Alma's sense of propriety.

[southendmd]

Jack wagered that Ennis would like the hunting rifle, but Ennis knew such luxury would cost him two or three month's wages.

[southendmd]

Round 835!

Miscellaneous Deleted Scenes

http://www.findingbrokeback.com/Deleted_Scenes/_Deleted_Scenes_Frame.html

[memento]

The Truck Scene

12   INT: SIGNAL, WYOMING: PICKUP TRUCK: MORNING: 1963:   12

We see them pull out of Signal in an Agency pickup driven by a short, silent BASQUE. ENNIS looks hangover [sic], holds his head. JACK, though, is sharp and alert.

They pass the gas station. ENNIS glimpses the same sour old man, sitting on the tractor tire.

[script]

[Fran]

From FindingBrokeback.com:

First assistant director Pierre Tremblay was asked to coordinate a number of rodeo scenes for possible use in the film. Many of them failed to make it there, such as this scene which features steer wrestling. Also known as bulldogging, this is an event in which the horse runs alongside the steer and continues on as the wrestler grips the steer’s right horn and hits the ground, bringing the steer to a stop. He then throws the steer off balance and wrestles it to the ground.

[southendmd]

The Twist cemetery scene was deleted:

ENNIS in his pickup, bumping down the washboard road.

Passes the TWIST family plot surrounded by sagging sheep wire, a tiny fenced square on the welling prairie, a few graves and a few tilted gravestones, bright with plastic flowers.

The look on his face makes it clear he doesn’t want to know that JACK is going in there, to be buried forever on the grieving plain.

{script}

[memento]

FindingBrokeback.com on the Twist Cemetery Scene:

Why did it never make its way into the film? Some would argue that “less is more.” John Twist’s plainspoken words tell us that there is a family plot and that Jack is going in it; showing us the actual cemetery adds nothing. Another argument for deleting the shot of the plot is that by doing so Lee placed the emphasis of the scene where it should be, the revelation of the shirts, not the disposition of Jack’s ashes.

[Fran]

At the Twist family plot, a few tilted gravestones mark the locations where the deceased had been entombed in the ground.

[Meryl]

The sneering mechanics aren't fooled by Jack and Randall's attempt at secrecy, figuring them for a couple of feckless perverts.

[southendmd]

The mechanics stare gibingly, presumably at Jack and Randall.