Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 7241377 times)

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"L" is languorous
« Reply #9400 on: December 12, 2006, 01:06:03 pm »
"After a languorous opening third, the movie soars for the duration as it dramatizes the fallout and periodic reunions from the pair's first and only idyllic summer laboring together.  And alone." 
-- Mike Clark, USA Today   

def. = lacking spirit or liveliness
« Last Edit: December 12, 2006, 04:36:34 pm by Fran »

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"M" is manually
« Reply #9401 on: December 12, 2006, 01:19:15 pm »
No instruction manual was needed for Jack to get things started manually in tent scene one.

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"N" is negativity
« Reply #9402 on: December 12, 2006, 02:13:51 pm »
Here is some of the negativity in Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain.
  • no prospects
  • no heater
  • no money
  • NO FIRE
  • NO SIGN
  • no right
  • no worse
  • no drawers
  • no socks
  • no instruction manual needed
  • no lack of noises
  • no queer (The actual quote is "I'm not no queer" - so this might be a positivity)
  • no English
  • no more damn lonesome ranches
  • no use out a me
  • no thoughts a doin it with another guy
  • no reins on this one
  • no broke-dick rider
  • no little thing that's happenin here
  • no real trouble, just widening water
  • no serious hard feelings
  • no pain
  • no fuckin idea how bad it gets
  • no news
  • no cake
  • no help out here
  • No way to get it right with him after that
  • no real scent
  • No, north a here

"No more beans" is from the screenplays and movie.
« Last Edit: December 12, 2006, 02:32:28 pm by Toast »

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"O" is ossification
« Reply #9403 on: December 12, 2006, 02:23:58 pm »
The sad ossification of Ennis at the end of the movie is shown by his shuffling of his feet when approaching the closet. In the book, it's shown in the prologue by his warming up of cold coffee and peeing in the sink.

def: a tendency toward or state of being molded into a rigid, conventional, sterile, or unimaginative condition
« Last Edit: December 12, 2006, 02:26:48 pm by Front-Ranger »
"chewing gum and duct tape"

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"P" is painful
« Reply #9404 on: December 12, 2006, 02:35:30 pm »
According to Jack, his injuries from rodeoing were rather painful.

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« Last Edit: December 12, 2006, 02:53:22 pm by opinionista »
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"Q" is quick-footed
« Reply #9405 on: December 12, 2006, 03:02:46 pm »
Cigar Butt was one quick-footed horse.

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"R" is regret
« Reply #9406 on: December 12, 2006, 03:08:39 pm »

Ennis:  "To Alma and Kurt."
Alma Jr. smiles, and clinks her glass with her daddy's.
Ennis smiles back at his luminous daughter. But his smile can't hide his regret and longing, for the one thing that he can't have. That he will never have.   [2005 screenplay]


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"S" is stubs
« Reply #9407 on: December 12, 2006, 03:33:36 pm »
They shook hands in the choky little trailer office in front of a table littered with scribbled papers, a Bakelite ashtray brimming with stubs. [story]
« Last Edit: December 12, 2006, 03:38:09 pm by opinionista »
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"T" is tires
« Reply #9408 on: December 12, 2006, 04:30:58 pm »
"The pickup was old, no heater, one windshield wiper and bad tires; when the transmission went there was no money to fix it."  [story]

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I like your "negativity."  :)
« Last Edit: December 12, 2006, 04:39:21 pm by Fran »

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"u" is uncredited
« Reply #9409 on: December 12, 2006, 05:16:47 pm »
Tom Cox, Murray Ord, and Jordy Randall   are listed as uncredited executive producers for Brokeback Mountain.

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Thanks.
Annie wrote some good words.
« Last Edit: December 12, 2006, 05:33:42 pm by Toast »