Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post) (Read 5658731 times)

memento · « **Reply #14220 on:** July 25, 2007, 06:19:53 pm »

After all his trying, Jack failed to convince Ennis that they could have a sweet life together.

Fran · « **Reply #14221 on:** July 25, 2007, 06:58:12 pm »

The gist of Brokeback Mountain:

"Brokeback Mountain is the sad chronology of a love affair between two men who can't afford to call it that."

-- Walter Kirn, New York

Toast · « **Reply #14222 on:** July 25, 2007, 07:48:36 pm »

Ennis and Jack were both deeply harmed by the experience of falling in love with each other - and the reactions (real and perceived) to their situations.

memento · « **Reply #14223 on:** July 25, 2007, 11:17:07 pm »

Ennis was hurt and insulted when Alma wanted him to use rubbers because she dreaded another pregnancy, saying that he would be happy to leave her alone if she didn’t want any more of his kids.

Fran · « **Reply #14224 on:** July 25, 2007, 11:19:49 pm »

"Ledger plumbs incredible depths of feeling to bring Ennis Del Mar to life, perpetually on the brink of crumbling by resisting the notion of embracing himself. Gyllenhaal is the ideal romantic foil, pushing the envelope as far as he dares in a time and place that knows no tolerance for such an arrangement."

-- Jeanne Aufmuth, Palo Alto Online

Ellemeno · « **Reply #14225 on:** July 26, 2007, 12:00:36 am »

In Jack's childhood closet, Ennis silently laments.

memento · « **Reply #14226 on:** July 26, 2007, 08:12:27 am »

Jack misinterpreted the meaning of Ennis' postcard after the divorce and drove twelve hundred miles for nothing. In despair he drove to Mexico.

Toast · « **Reply #14227 on:** July 26, 2007, 08:51:52 am »

Ennis was quick to negate Jack's King-of-the-Road feelings as soon as he realized that Jack thought that now they could be a couple.

Fran · « **Reply #14228 on:** July 26, 2007, 09:56:10 am »

A sense of "never enough time, never enough" overshadows the ardor of Jack and Ennis's "infrequent couplings."

memento · « **Reply #14229 on:** July 26, 2007, 10:30:29 am »

Ennis "had wanted to be a sophomore, felt the word carried a kind of" prestige, "but the truck broke down short of it, pitching him directly into ranch work."

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Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post) (Read 5658731 times)

memento

"F" is failed

Fran

"G" is gist

Toast

"H" is harmed

memento

"I" is insulted

Fran

"J" is Jeanne

Ellemeno

"L" is laments

memento

"M" is misinterpreted

Toast

"N" is negate

Fran

"O" is overshadows

memento

"P" is prestige