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

[southendmd]

Jack quells Ennis' anxieties by saying, "Me, neither".

[Fran]

Joe Aguirre "didn't ask if Ennis had a watch but took a cheap round ticker on a braided cord from a box on a high shelf, wound and set it, tossed it to him as if he weren't worth the reach."  [story]

[memento]

When they were standing in front of Aguirre's trailor, Jack and Ennis sized each other up.

[southendmd]

Jack was tuned in to Ennis' feelings but not to harmonica playing.

[Toast]

[Ang] Lee lets the tale unfold in its own time, its own way, and yet the story never flags, never engages us less than fully, building to a heart-shredding conclusion.    Love Story by R Shulman

[Fran]

"Despite the fact that 'Brokeback' had swept the most meaningful best picture races from December through February, the buzz was that 'Crash' was gaining momentum while 'Brokeback' was losing steam.  Nonetheless, most Hollywood handicappers (including yours truly, sorry to say) just weren't willing to believe the Oscar outcome would differ from all those earlier votes by members of the Producers Guild of America, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., the Broadcast Film Critics Assn. and the British Academy."

-- Martin A. Grove, The Hollywood Reporter  [link]

[memento]

Ennis shows his sense of humor by making wisecracks about Jack's harmonica playing and his rodeoing.

[Toast]

The xecrableness of Earl's death had a lifelong impact on Ennis Del Mar.

[Fran]

The movie "Brokeback Mountain" is specifically referred to in Kenji Yoshino's book,  Covering:  The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights:

"'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."

[memento]

"At the Venice International Film Festival awards ceremony last Saturday, Ang Lee  walked away with the Golden Lion for his film Brokeback Mountain. And Zhong A-cheng, the only Chinese jury member at the festival, thinks of himself as the behind-the-scenes helper that propelled the director onto the world stage."  [Tapei Times] Link to article