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

[southendmd]

By asking Jack about Mexico, Ennis had trodden on thin ice.

[Toast]

The final day of their May 1983 travels in and near the Hail Strew River drainage turned out to be the time to unload the pent up frustrations of years upon years.

[Fran]

Although Ennis used vaguish language when referring to Mexico -- "I heard about what they got in Mexico for boys like you" -- Jack understood perfectly.

[southendmd]

"There's somethin' I've been meanin' to tell you, bud," Ennis said, while worriedly chewing his fingernails.

[Toast]

When Jack said "I did once," in May of 1983, it sounded like he had reached the xpiration date of his "if you and me had a little ranch together, little cow and calf operation, your horses, it'd be some sweet life" offer to Ennis.

[Toast]

Round 468

November's Too Late
1981-2 movie/screenplays - 1983 Proulx

[Meryl]

Ennis's state of mind had been affected by attrition from years of keeping his relationship with Jack a close secret.

def.= gradual wearing down through prolonged attack or pressure

[southendmd]

In their final argument, they were baring their souls to each other.  It was almost too much to bear.

[Fran]

CUT TO FLASHBACK:  EXT:  BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, WYOMING:  CAMPFIRE:  NIGHT:  CONTINUOUS:  1963:

JACK and ENNIS, much younger.

JACK and ENNIS have finished the last meal of the day.  JACK stands by the campfire, warming himself.  He stands that way for a few moments, alone.

Then WE SEE two arms encircle him from behind:  it is ENNIS.

They stand that way for a moment, JACK leaning back into ENNIS.

ENNIS'S breath comes slow and quiet, then he starts to gently rock back and forth a little, lit by the warm fire tossing ruddy chunks of light, the shadow of their bodies a single column against a rock.  ENNIS hums quietly.

Nothing mars this moment for JACK, even though he knows that ENNIS does not embrace him face to face because he does not want to see or feel that it is JACK he holds -- because for now, they are wrapped in a closeness that satisfies some shared and sexless hunger, that is not really sleep but something else drowsy and tranced -- until ENNIS, dredging up a rusty phrase from the childhood time before his mother died, says:

                                           ENNIS
                    Come on now, you're sleepin' on your feet
                    like a horse.
                             (pause)
                    My mama used to say that to me when I was little....    [screenplay]

[Toast]

The closeness, fierceness and desperation of their embrace sends Jack drifting back to the old embrace that satisifed some shared and sexless hunger.