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

[memento]

Alma felt that it would have been unwise not to use rubbers because she didn't want any more kids.

[Fran]

"Jake Gyllenhaal plays the flamboyant Jack with tenderness and hard-earned toughness but it is Heath Ledger's Ennis that is truly heartrending. His painfully internalised performance is epitomised by his clipped mutter, as if afraid too much will fall out if he opens his mouth any wider."

-- Caroline Hennessy, RTÉ Entertainment     

[Fran]

Round 825!

Comparatives:  Part 2!

Each post will include an unplayed word as well
as a comparative (which may be the unplayed word).

[southendmd]

What with al his crushed vertebrates and such, Jack was achier before he quit rodeoin'.

[Meryl]

Jack arrived in Signal in an old pickup that had been blacker in its youth, before time and layers of dirt had turned it an antique grey.

[Fran]

Joy Ellison:  Their mouths would be [closed more], which worked well for the characters and the whole feeling, because the bigger picture is an idea of people who can’t communicate. They are in a period of time where, there may be a sexual revolution going on in the country but in that particular part of the country, it’s a much more conservative, bottled-up, and uncommunicative society. It would be very difficult for people to be open and communicative about these things. Ang was particularly careful about all of it.

Brokeback Mountain Production Notes

[southendmd]

The slices of elk were getting dryer whilst on the rack.

[memento]

Ennis insisted that he "ain't no queer", making it easier to accept what had happened the night before. 

[Fran]

"Heath Ledger, finally delivering on the early promise he showed in decidedly frothier efforts such as 10 Things I Hate About You and A Knight's Tale, plays Ennis Del Mar, a young cowboy who meets Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) in 1963 and slowly, unexpectedly falls in love."

-- Todd Gilchrist, IGN Movies     

[Ellemeno]

Young Ennis was gabbier with Jack than without.