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

[memento]

The Jolly Minister withdrew his offer to kiss the bride, since the groom lived up to his part of the bargain.

[southendmd]

Round 729!

The Debate Round!

Please post an unplayed word in the context of a debate, question, argument, etc.

[Fran]

Interviewer Ethan Aames of Cinema Confidential posed this question to Heath Ledger regarding his work in Brokeback Mountain:

"Everyone is talking about your speech in the film. How did you come up with that style?"

Here is Heath's answer:

"For one, it was something I remembered about Australian ranch-hands; they always liked talking like this. But I think it in Australia, it’s just to keep flies out of your mouth, but it was something very clenched about it. When I found this accent, I had to find a regional accent and my mouth was moving everywhere when I got it, but that was part of physicalizing his battle and it was an extension of what was within him. I just tried to that and as many as those aspects as possible."

Interview

[southendmd]

Ennis's paranoid rants turned into a bickering match in the "Maybe Texas" scene. 

[memento]

The post-Oscars debate: Why Brokeback lost

The Oscars opened the closet door to gay-themed films but shut it almost as quickly.

"Brokeback Mountain," the much-ballyhooed favorite about two gay cowboys, won best director for Ang Lee on Sunday but stunningly lost the best picture prize to race drama "Crash." Additionally Philip Seymour Hoffman won best actor for playing gay novelist Truman Capote in "Capote."

The victory for "Crash" suggested Oscar voters were more comfortable with a tale that exploited the seamy underbelly of racial conflict in contemporary Los Angeles than with a heartbreaking tale of love between two married men.

"Perhaps the truth really is, Americans don't want cowboys to be gay," said Larry McMurtry, 69, who shared an Oscar for best adapted screenplay with Diana Ossana for "Brokeback."

No overtly gay love story has ever won a best picture award and, as of Monday morning, none has. The big question going into the Oscars was whether Hollywood, often in the forefront of social issues, would break another taboo.

"Film buffs and the politically minded will be arguing this morning about whether the Best Picture Oscar to 'Crash' was really for the film's merit or just a cop-out by the Motion Picture Academy so it wouldn't have to give the prize to 'Brokeback Mountain,"' said Washington Post critic Tom Shales.

Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan saw "Brokeback's" failure as a sign that Hollywood was not yet ready to grant the topic of homosexual love mainstream respectability.

"Despite all the magazine covers it graced, despite all the red-state theaters it made good money in, despite (or maybe because of) all the jokes late-night talk show hosts made about it, you could not take the pulse of the industry without realizing that 'Brokeback Mountain' made a number of people distinctly uncomfortable," he said, adding:

"So for people who were discomfited by 'Brokeback Mountain' but wanted to be able to look themselves in the mirror and feel like they were good, productive liberals, 'Crash' provided the perfect safe harbor."

Yahoo Movies

[Fran]

The post-Oscars debate: Why Brokeback lost

The Oscars opened the closet door to gay-themed films but shut it almost as quickly.

"Brokeback Mountain," the much-ballyhooed favorite about two gay cowboys, won best director for Ang Lee on Sunday but stunningly lost the best picture prize to race drama "Crash." Additionally Philip Seymour Hoffman won best actor for playing gay novelist Truman Capote in "Capote."

Yahoo Movies

=aside= Sandy
Thanks.

[southendmd]

Jack and Ennis debated the merits of a life together; Jack's entreaty went unheeded.

[Meryl]

After reining in his anger for many years, Jack was ready to have it out with Ennis, firing back an angry retort to his Mexico question:  "Hell yes, I been to Mexico.  Is that a fuckin' problem?"

[memento]

When Alma asked Ennis: "You still go fishin with that Jack Twist?", he replied with suspicious guardedness: "Some."

[southendmd]

When Ennis yelled at Alma to come back and put supper on the table, she did not heed his request.