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

[Toast]

When not frustrated or threatened, Ennis was as unaggressive as a lamb.

[Fran]

"Ledger even moves through certain scenes like a man whose vertebrae are inflexibly welded together." 

-- Justin Vicari in Jumpcut:  A Review of Contemporary Media

[memento]

After Ennis encountered the bear and the horse spooked, he felt like he had been put through the wringer.

[Toast]

Jack thought that arranging a tryst with Ennis Del Mar was like trying to see His Xcellency the Pope.

=aside= Toast
Xcellent "X".
Sandy

[memento]

Round 486!
Simile, Metaphor, Analogy - Take Your Pick
e.g., Getting the Short End of the Stick

[Fran]

"Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) is wound tight as whipcord, a quiet loner who mostly lives inside his own head, hardly able to allow words to get free of his clamped-down control." 

-- Kathleen Murphy, "Love and pain and the whole damn thing"

[southendmd]

Jack, in his dark camp, beheld Ennis as "night fire, a red spark on the huge black mass of mountain".  {short story}

[memento]

"Jack had filled out through the shoulders and hams; Ennis stayed as lean as a clothespole, stepped around in worn boots, jeans, and shirts summer and winter, added a canvas coat in cold weather." Story

=aside= Fran
Thanks for reminding me of this.

[Meryl]

Like dew on roses, the days on Brokeback slowly evaporated, until Ennis and Jack found themselves back in Signal before they were due and with no more to do.

[Fran]

"Brokeback Mountain  has a luscious doomed tenor that, at times, makes it feel like Edith Wharton with Stetsons."

-- Owen Gleiberman, EW.com

=reply= Sandy