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

[southendmd]

Jack gave an impassioned speech at the Lake Scene.

[memento]

"Strangers and loners, isolated geographically and emotionally from the rest of the world, they learn to bond as soul mates. One night in the sub-zero cold, huddled together for warmth under a horse blanket, they also find each other physically, and the emotional impact of their first sexual encounter opens a floodgate of need, release, desire, shame and violence that haunts them for the next two decades."

[Fran]

In Ang Lee, Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry found a director who'd be willing to make their movie on a modest budget.

[southendmd]

While much whiskey was needed up on the mountain, Jack eventually found beans to be nonessential.

[memento]

"Great films are great films, and great songs are great songs. Oh, I am happy that Gustavo Santaolalla won for his wrenching, spare, and beautiful score of Brokeback. What is it about this music that so uncannily connects with the story? Every pitch, every overtone, every interval seems perfectly matched to the core of the drama. The piece that's called "The Wings" on the soundtrack breaks my heart. As only music can, it carries all the sadness, the loneliness, the longing . . ."

Of The Kosmos

[Fran]

Larry McMurtry on the short story Brokeback Mountain: 

"It is one of the finest short stories I’ve read. The place, the landscape, the men and the way they speak are drawn precisely and convincingly."

Interview for Brokeback Mountain

[southendmd]

Jack and Ennis rationed the whiskey on shares.

[Meryl]

When Ennis gets the first postcard from Jack, he scratches two words on it--"You bet"-- and puts it in the mail pronto.



=aside=Paul

Thanks for noting my notch 

[Fran]

Diana Ossana, in her own tenacious way, convinced Larry McMurtry to read Brokeback Mountain, even though he really doesn't read fiction anymore.

[memento]

At Thanksgiving dinner, Alma brought up the unmentioned topic of Ennis's fishing trips.