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

[southendmd]

Story reunion's June date was traded in for screenplay's September reunion.

[Toast]

Story Ennis calls Jack's phone number twice:

• When Alma unencumbers herself of him in 1973. (Alma Jr. was nine years old.)
  
• When the postcard is returned to him marked deceased in 1983.

Screenplay Ennis calls Jack's phone number once:

• When the postcard is returned to him marked deceased in 1982.

[Meryl]

The screenplay includes three viewings of television shows during the course of the movie that go unmentioned in the story.

[Ellemeno]

In the story, "A hot jolt scalded Ennis and he was out on the landing pulling the door closed behind him. Jack took the stairs two and two. They seized each other by the shoulders, hugged mightily, squeezing the
breath out of each other, saying, son of a bitch, son of a bitch"

In the movie, we find Ennis waxing poetic earlier, while still upstairs outside his front door.

[Toast]

Story Jack had no trouble xpensing his buck-tooth filing and capping.  He could just pass the dental bill on to Lureen.

Screenplay Jack had no buck-tooth problems, but he did get his teeth capped in the 2003 screenplay:

128  EXT: ENNIS'S LINE CABIN: DAY:

ENNIS waits with his bedroll by a small, poor line cabin, miles from nowhere, much like the one he and ALMA had lived in when his daughters were young. SEES a pickup coming, dust on the ranch road. watches. This time, the pickup that arrives is a fancy new double-seater with lots of chrome. JACK, older, steps out, wearing sort of modish new rodeo duds and a tall white Stetson. They look at one another a moment, making sure they are still ENNIS and JACK, making sure it's still there.  Embrace.

                ENNIS
        What'd you do, bud, strike oil?

                JACK
            (grins - has had his teeth capped)
        Better than that. Lureen's old man dropped dead, she's
        runnin' the business now. Sends me to all the fairs and
        stock shows to sell them big tractors. We got the latest
        thing in squeeze chutes, ought to see 'em.
            (pause)
        Easy life now, Ennis.
(A beat.)
                JACK
            (cont'd)
        Come on, throw your stuff in the back. If we're goin', let's go.

[Toast]

Round 554
Brokeback Mountain
Proulx wrote a little piece.

McMurtry/Ossana made it more.

[memento]

"Any omissions from the short story to the screenplay were dramatic choices. Most of what is in the short story is contained within the finished screenplay, although when we actually scripted the short story, it only amounted to about a third of the final script. We had to imagine and create the scenes that we added or fleshed out, meaning, essentially, that we had to create two-thirds of the screenplay from our imaginations."

Brokeback Mountain: Interview with Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana

[southendmd]

In the screenplay, Cassie figures prominently, first bubbly then dejected; in the story, she is simply someone Ennis was putting the blocks to who had some problems he didn't want.

[Toast]

In Story to Screenplay, Proulx's prose fills 28 pages and the screenplay needs 97 pages.   However when one counts the words, Proulx actually has about 10,600 words on her pages while McMurtry/Ossana haven't even doubled the word count - at about 20,600 words.

[count by Microsoft Word 2003]

[Meryl]

We know from Annie's story that Ennis dreamed of Jack, but the screenplay illustrates only the physical reality of Ennis's world.