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

[Fran]

"Brokeback Mountain, which spans two decades beginning in 1963, depicts cowboys trapped in the first two generations of gay history.  The emotionally frozen Ennis can never fully embrace his love for Jack because he has been subjected to a particularly terrifying form of conversion therapy.  When he was nine, his father took him to see a man who had been beaten to death for having 'ranched up' with another man. The heterosexual imperative reflected in that murder drives both Ennis and Jack to marry women.  But Jack believes a different life is possible — he tries to persuade Ennis that they can inhabit a closet built for two.  The tragedy of the film is that Jack is too far ahead of his time — it is the less courageous Ennis who survives."   

--  an excerpt from Covering:  The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights, by Kenji Yoshino

[Toast]

The Jack Twist who showed up near Aguirre's trailer and draped himself over his pickup was a much better looker than the Jack Twist created by Annie Proulx.

[memento]

"Later, that dozy embrace solidified in his memory as the single moment of artless, charmed happiness in their separate and difficult lives. Nothing marred it, even the knowledge that Ennis would not then embrace him face to face because he did not want to see or feel that it was Jack he held. And maybe, he thought, they’d never got much farther than that. Let be, let be." [story]

[southendmd]

Ennis nuzzles Jack with his nose after the reunion kiss.

[Toast]

Annie Proulx traces the origin of Ennis Del Mar to a "country gay" man that she saw at the Mint Bar.

[Fran]

"'I looked in the case when I got a chance, and there was my note still tied there, and that line hadn't touched water in its life.'  As though the word 'water' had called out its domestic cousin, she twisted the faucet, sluiced the plates."  [story]

[southendmd]

While on the mountain, Jack and Ennis usually shared both breakfast and supper quotidianly.

[Toast]

The actor chosen to play Jack's father (Peter McRobbie) certainly looks like (Grant) Wood's living cadavers -- grim, wheezing skinhead, lacking only that pitchfork -- and the house itself has the quality of skeleton to it: bare with unfinished wood, rotting in the sun.   

[Fran]

"They stayed in the little apartment which he (Ennis) favored because it could be left at any time."  [story]

[memento]

Ennis' life turned topsy-turvy after spending the night with Jack in Tent Scene I.