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

[memento]

"Instead, director Ang Lee's film is a poignant, heartbreaking and startlingly romantic exploration of the years-long relationship between two rugged young ranch hands, the taciturn and closed-off Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and the open-hearted, longing Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) as they struggle to both indulge and disguise the intense feelings they share in a more repressive American West."

'Brokeback Mountain': Interviews From The Film to Beat This Year

[Fran]

Earl, whose sexual orientation made him a local laughingstock, was found dead in an irrigation ditch one day.

[Meryl]

The day the boys left Signal for their separate homes, Ennis monkeyed around under the hood of Jack's truck to help get it started after months of inactivity.

[memento]

After months of loneliness, Jack met Lureen at a local nightspot.

[Fran]

Ennis allowed his fear of social repercussions to outbalance his desire to spend the rest of his days with Jack:  "Two guys livin' together?  No way."

[Meryl]

On the night of their first meeting, Randall and Jack sent tentative signals to each other that then got stronger when their wives left them to get prettied up.

[memento]

Jack slid his cold hand between Ennis's legs, said he was worried about his boy who was, no doubt about it, dyslexic or something, couldn't get anything right, fifteen years old and couldn't handly read, he could see it though goddamn Lureen wouldn't admit to it and pretended the kid was o.k., refused to get any bitchin kind a help about it.

[story]

[southendmd]

It only took a few seconds' time to realize the attraction between Jack and Ennis.

[Fran]

On a summer day in 1963, the thousand sheep, the dogs, the horses, Jack, Ennis, and the pack mules slowly trooped into the flowering meadows of the mountainside.

[memento]

And while the film never states its message outright — and Lee himself will tell you that it has no social agenda — the sheer beauty of his creation is enough to follow the emotional momentum to its logical conclusion: that powerful love in any form is something rare, and to be cherished.

It is also, for the most part, accidental, sparked suddenly between the two leads, Ennis del Mar (Ledger) and rodeo rider Jack Twist (Gyllenhaal), when an especially frigid night on the mountain pushes them into the same tent. Their affection for one another is spontaneous and unthinking at times, and at others ravenous and addictive. Their chemistry is thick and natural, leaving the audience with a persistent case of the butterflies.