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

[southendmd]

The hippies are nonconformists; they contrast with (especially) Ennis's more "squarish" views. 

[Fran]

Ennis off-loads the female hippies from the VW bus while Jack attempts to tie a rope around its bumper.

[Toast]

As Jack and Ennis left the hippies, the Man and his two Girls were making preparations to share some food and ...

[southendmd]

Ennis off-loads the female hippies from the VW bus while Jack attempts to tie a rope around its bumper.

=aside= Fran
 

[Fran]

10  INT:  SIGNAL, WYOMING:  PICKUP TRUCK:  NIGHT:  1963:  10

JACK sleeps in his old pickup, slumped against the door.

ENNIS, in the passenger seat, wide awake, smokes, gazes through the steamed windows into the darkness.

[2004 screenplay]


=comment=
I wish this scene was included.

[Toast]

Annie Proulx writes about Ennis' battle with truthiness:

Around that time Jack began to appear in his dreams, Jack as he had first seen him, curly-headed and smiling and bucktoothed, talking about getting up off his pockets and into the control zone, but the can of beans with the spoon handle jutting out and balanced on the log was there as well, in a cartoon shape and lurid colors that gave the dreams a flavor of comic obscenity. The spoon handle was the kind that could be used as a tire iron. And he would wake sometimes in grief, sometimes with the old sense of joy and release; the pillow sometimes wet, sometimes the sheets.
There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.

Ang Lee and his writers omitted the spoon-handle dreams, pillows and sheets from the filmed version of Brokeback Mountain.

def - the quality of stating facts that you believe or want to be true, rather than stating facts that are known to be true

[southendmd]

Jack was dozing, perhaps dreaming, while an unsleeping Ennis smoked the night away. 

=aside= Fran
I'm with you:  that would have been a cool scene.

[memento]

It seems clear when Girl 1 says: "You sure? (seductive) We love to share", that she is no stick-in-the-mud and varies her sexual partners.
 
                 

[Fran]

In profile, WE SEE the passenger take an old mashed-up Stetson off the dashboard.

This is ENNIS DEL MAR:  about twenty, but nonetheless compelling, not light or frivolous in disposition, appearance or manner, uncommonly quick reflexes -- a high-school drop-out country boy with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, rough-mannered, rough-spoken, inured to the stoic life. Has outgrown his faded denim cowboy shirt, his wrists stick well out of the sleeves, the buttons gap.

                    ENNIS
              (straightens the creases of the hat, sets it on his head)
          That's Signal, ain't it?

                    TRUCKER
              (no conversationalist)
          Was the last time I come this way.

[2004 screenplay]

[Toast]

Brokeback Mountain fans would love to see more evidence of the hippie scene, but are disappointed by its xiguousness.
 
def - extremely scanty; meager