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

[memento]

"This time, however, "Brokeback Mountain" seen as the upcoming movie, failed to receive the expected recognition. Only the film's director, Ang Lee found consolation receiving the Best Director award. Taiwanese born Lee was nominated for eight Oscars for his movie that depicts a cowboy teaching how to be a cowboy, tells the story of a gay cowboy and was adored by the Academy. Winning three awards, he also received a BAFTA award, which is regarded as the precursor for the Oscars."   --Zaman Online                                                       

[memento]

[Toast]

In the 2005 screenplay Jack awakens just before dawn, decides it is time for action and "takes one of Ennis's big hands from outside the bedroll and guides it inside, down toward his own groin."

[Fran]

Ennis:  "I come up under my brother K.E., three years older'n me, slugged me silly ever day.  Dad got tired a me come bawlin' in the house and when I was about six he set me down and say, Ennis, you got a problem and you got a fix it or it's gonna be with you until you're ninety and K.E.'s ninety-three.  Well, I says, he's bigger'n me. 
Dad says, you got a take him unawares...."  [story]

[memento]

Alma wanted Ennis to come clean about his "fishing trips" with Jack Nasty.

[Toast]

In the 2005 screenplay, Bobby Twist is eating a drumstick during the football skirmish, even before the turkey is carved.
In the movie he is eating pale soup from the soup tureen that Lureen carried into the kitchen as Jack garnished the turkey with gravy.

[Fran]

"Ang Lee uses detail to make the story authentic, to help us know things without knowing we know them:  he alerts us to the inevitable ending from the beginning.  His film is fulfilling as a work of art; it unfolds organically, ends where it's meant to end.  We come away saddened but satisfied." 

-- Andrew Hudson, White Crane

[southendmd]

It was four-years' time before the boys saw each other again.

[Toast]

Conservatives will see the liberal tyranny of an entertainment culture forcing elitist "progressive values" on the reluctant red-state millions and, in the process, staining the purity of the most American of good ol' American genres, the western, home of Duke Wayne, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers.   

A Picture of Two Americas In 'Brokeback Mountain

[Fran]

"...Brokeback  follows the lives of Ennis and Jack as they settle down with wives and children and contend with relationships that are increasingly loveless.  It proceeds with the same methodical patience but drips with ambient dramatic conflict that hooks the viewer with concern for all the players." 

-- Nicholas Tam, The Gateway