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

[Fran]

Round 954!

The Movie Round



The ABCs Game is going to the movies!

Each post will include an unplayed word
as well as the full name of a movie.

[memento]

Ennis nearly had apoplexy at Thanksgiving dinner, when Alma exposed the secrets and lies about his "fishing trips."

=aside= Fran
Great idea for a round.

[southendmd]

Ennis was perched in his trailer like a speechless parrot in a birdcage.

=aside= Fran
Cool idea for a round!

[Marina]

The 1987 film Maurice, although set in a different era and a different location altogether (the lovers meet and begin a relationship at Cambridge and not as shepherds on a mountain in Wyoming), is to me a story with much in common to Brokeback Mountain.

[Fran]

Diana Ossana on the difficulty of casting Brokeback Mountain:

"Maybe I was a little naïve at first. I thought somebody's going to see that these are really great parts for actors. This is something that will stretch their talents and challenge them. I think they all saw that, but Larry's belief is that their agents or representatives just dissuaded them."

Interview with Brokeback Mountain Screenwriters Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana

[southendmd]

When Ennis and Jack had their reunion kiss, it had the power of an earthquake.

[memento]

Ennis was outraged when he found out that Jack had frequented the dark alleys of Juarez, Mexico.

[Fran]

Kurt Loder of MTV News had this to say about Brokeback Mountain:
   
"This is a beautiful movie, and a brave one -- and not in a grandstanding, PC kind of way."

[southendmd]

When Aguirre comes up to the mountain to inform Jack of Uncle Harold's illness, there is a hocus-pocus moment:  one minute the log is there, then it ain't!

[Meryl]

The implication of Jack's death on Ennis's returned postcard sent him straight to the nearest phone booth to call Texas.