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

[Toast]

BBM Factual errors: Early in the film (1963, Wyoming) a train is seen crossing the screen without a caboose. Cabooses were required by law on all trains into the 1980s.

IMdB.com

[Fran]

BBM trivia from IMDb:

Ang Lee struggled continually with the sheep during the shoot.  Apparently sheep don't drink from running water, only ponds and dams.  Ang tried all day to get the sheep to drink from a stream, but they wouldn't oblige.  He had to give up on the shot.

Also, American sheep carry a bacteria/virus that Canadian sheep don't possess.  The film's scene where two herds of sheep become mixed up had some nightmarish real-life parallels, as the Canadian government had expressly warned the filmmakers of dire consequences if they caused any disease to spread to the local animals from the south-of-the-border variety.

[memento]

Trivia from IMDB: Director Ang Lee gave Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal copies of the book, "Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Upper Midwest", by Will Fellows, to help them understand their characters.

[southendmd]

Viewers' experience of the film is generally not marred by the few goofs and gaffs.

[Fran]

Actress Naomi Watts, Heath Ledger's girlfriend at the time, is said to have convinced him to do the film.

[memento]

Trivia: Locals have noticed an upswing in visitation to Upper Kananaskis Lake, the bridge along the Galatea hiking trail where Heath Ledger picks up supplies and, of course, where he meets the black bear (recruited from a local xotic animal farm outside of Innisfail).    Alberta Tourism Basks In "Brokeback" Spotlight

Someone please do round announcement.

[southendmd]

Round 521!
It's Alberta's turn in the sun!

[southendmd]

Alberta's beautiful and varied landscapes filled in nicely for Wyoming.

[Toast]

Ang Lee and his production staff made sure that Alberta's natural beauty and quaint villages could stand in for Wyoming before they started shooting this magnificent film on a shoestring budget.   Fixed!

=aside= Paul
Beauty of an announcement, dude!

[Fran]

"Although the Annie Proulx short story is set in Wyoming, Brokeback Mountain, a big winner at the 2005 Academy Awards, was filmed in the south of Alberta, one of Canada's prairie provinces." 

-- Jane McLean, About.com