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

[Toast]

My favourite scene in the whole movie is the one in which Ennis and Jack started to really communicate, and Jack hammed it up for his new friend:

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A beat.

ENNIS'S tongue loosens suddenly. He stares into the fire, remembering, cleaning his teeth with his tongue.

                    ENNIS (CONT'D)
          Got me a year a high school before the transmission
          went on the pickup.

(pause; a horse is heard snorting)

          Then my sis left, met a roughneck, moved to Casper,
          ‘n me and my brother we, we went and got ourselves
          some work on a ranch up near Worland ‘til I was
          nineteen. Then he got married and uh, no more
          room for me.
               (pause; looks over to Jack)
          That's how come me end up here.

ENNIS drinks from the whiskey bottle. Silence.

JACK looks over at ENNIS, smiles.

                    ENNIS (CONT'D)
               (seeing the smile)
          ...What?

                    JACK
          Friend, that's more words than you've spoke in the
          past two weeks.


ENNIS smiles, for the first time.

                    ENNIS
          Hell, it's the most I've spoke in a year.
               (remembers)
          Now my dad he, he was a fine roper. Didn't rodeo
          much, though. He thought rodeo cowboys was all
          fuck-ups.

                    JACK
               (drinks)
          The hell they are!

                    ENNIS
               (glancing at Jack, not sure if he hit a sore spot)
          Hm, well…

 JACK suddenly shouts into ENNIS’s face, gets up, does a pretend bull ride around the campfire, bucking and twisting.

                    JACK
          Yee-haw! Woooow! I'm spurrin' his guts out! Wavin'
          to the girls in the stands! He's kickin’ to high heaven,
          but he can't dashboard me! No way!

ENNIS watches him, over his shoulder, big smile on his face. JACK finally throws himself, collapses in a heap among pots and pans.

                    ENNIS
          I’d say my dad was right.

JACK laughs out loud. ENNIS turns back to the fire, smiling.

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[Annotated Final Script by Steven Edelijn, June 2006]

=aside= Paul
Then there's the day Alma flings Ennis out on his creel.

[southendmd]

November or December 1963 (depending on which way you're sailing: story or film) marks the imperfect marriage between Ennis and Alma.


=aside= Toast
I knew  there had to be more flings to be flung.

[Fran]

In the summer of 1963, Ennis was greatly amused by Jack’s high jinks as he pretended to ride a bull while intoxicated.

[Toast]

Jack's mating high jinks were a reward for Ennis's behaving more loquaciously than he did all year.

[southendmd]

The summer of 1963 was host to Jack's ever-famous mock rodeo mating dance high jinks.  Yeehaw.

[Meryl]

=HAPPY BIRTHDAY= ABCz!



ON TO YEAR NUMBER TWO!

[Fran]

One more reason to celebrate:

In the summer of '63, Uncle Harold survived a bout of pneumonia without his nephew's help or intervention.

[Toast]

Another day that was good to be alive:

Jack gets out of his pickup, says the first word of the film, "Shit", kicks the rear panel of his pickup, ogles the waiting dude, drapes himself all over the pickup, and then decides he needs to get a shave for some reason.

=aside= Meryl
Welcome to the party.
Year 2  ... I swear ...

[Meryl]

July 4, 1966, was the night Ennis pummeled two pussy-prowling palookas and sent them packing, providing a prelude to the preplanned pyrotechnics.

=congratz=Fran
3,000 ABCD-lightful posts!

[Fran]

Alma remarried shortly after divorcing Ennis.  Her second husband was Monroe, the Riverton grocer.

=reply= Meryl
Thank you.