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Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 7239758 times)

Offline Fran

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"Q" is quick-moving
« Reply #8110 on: October 31, 2006, 08:15:57 pm »
"A slow-moving, button-lipped Western romance, Ang Lee's widescreen version of Annie Proulx's quick-moving, stub-tongued story worms its way into the viewer's consciousness, to remain there, a shifting, analog reality, for days or even weeks."
-- Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman 

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"R" is rifles
« Reply #8111 on: October 31, 2006, 08:22:36 pm »
There are at least two rifles of different calibres in Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain.
The boys get a 30-30 in 1963 and Jack has a 30-06 in 1983.

   

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"S" is steamy
« Reply #8112 on: October 31, 2006, 08:29:14 pm »
Things get steamy when Ennis comes into the tent from the cold.


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"T" is twenty-four
« Reply #8113 on: October 31, 2006, 08:30:28 pm »
"Ennis, reared by his older brother and sister after their parents drove off the only curve on Dead Horse Road leaving them twenty-four dollars in cash and a two-mortgage ranch, applied at age fourteen for a hardship license that let him make the hour-long trip from the ranch to the high school."  [story]
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"U" is undiluted
« Reply #8114 on: October 31, 2006, 09:10:49 pm »
One could argue that Ennis and Jack's happiness is laid to waste by society's mores. But where lies tragedy, also lies the tender, undiluted potency of genuine love. Brokeback Mountain is a testament to that love, in all its forms.      Love Story by R Shulman
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"V" is vented
« Reply #8115 on: October 31, 2006, 09:38:14 pm »
Ennis vented his spleen after Thanksgiving dinner when Alma brought up the subject of his fishing trips with Jack Nasty.
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"W" is without
« Reply #8116 on: October 31, 2006, 09:43:12 pm »
"Ennis woke in red dawn with his pants around his knees, a top-grade headache, and Jack butted against him; without saying anything about it, both knew how it would go for the rest of the summer, sheep be damned."    [story]
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"X" is xecrating
« Reply #8117 on: October 31, 2006, 09:51:34 pm »
ScreenIt has a complete list of the xecrating in Brokeback Mountain, under the heading Profanity:

   At least 22 "f" words (1 used sexually), 13 "s" words, 2 slang terms using female genitals ("p*ssy"), 1 using male ones ("d*ck"), 16 hells, 11 damns, 6 asses (1 used with "hole"), 4 S.O.B.s, 1 crap, 13 uses of "G-damn" and 1 use each of "Christ," "Jesus" and "Jesus Christ."


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"Y" is yesterdays'
« Reply #8118 on: October 31, 2006, 10:18:48 pm »
The sweetness of yesterdays' longings filled Ennis's dreams.
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"Z" is ZoomAvant.com
« Reply #8119 on: October 31, 2006, 10:55:45 pm »
To read a review of Brokeback Mountain (Le secret de Brokeback) at the French website ZoomAvant.com, click here.
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