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

[southendmd]

If some fans lamented the dearth of under-canvas action and sent her pornish rewrites, Annie would refer to them as a source of constant irritation in her private life.

[memento]

If she had to vent after her Brokeback Mountain Oscar hopes were dashed by Crash, Annie Proulx would say: "On the sidewalk stood hordes of the righteous, some leaning forward like wind-bent grasses, the better to deliver their imprecations against gays and fags to the open windows of the limos - the windows open by order of the security people - creeping toward the Kodak Theater for the 78th Academy Awards. Others held up sturdy, professionally crafted signs expressing the same hatred."

[memento]

Round 801!

WWALD?



What Would Ang Lee Do?

[Fran]

If asked to contrast Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, Ang Lee would say, "They're both gay, but Jack is more knowing and less denying. In a way he's the all-American boy -- dreamy and romantic, adventurous. On the other hand, Ennis has no vocabulary to understand what he feels. He's self-loathing and in denial -- he denies even his own existence. There's something poignant and beautiful about him, but also tragic. To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie -- culturally and psychologically -- but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late."

[Meryl]

If asked to say when and where he was birthed, Ang Lee would reply, "On October 23, 1954, in Pingtung, Taiwan."

[southendmd]

If, as a young director, no one sent him scripts, Ang would concoct them himself.

[Fran]

If asked to contrast Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, Ang Lee would say, "They're both gay, but Jack is more knowing and less denying. In a way, he's the all-American boy...."

[memento]

If Ang Lee were going to make a Western film, he would lean on documentaries about rodeos, the photography of Richard Avedon and Western experts Proulx and McMurtry, who took the director around their haunts in Wyoming and Texas.

[Meryl]

If asked about the friable quality of human existence, Ang Lee would likely cite his experience growing up in Taiwan:
"My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security. It was as if the world could turn against them at any moment."

def = fragile

[Fran]

If directing Brokeback Mountain earned him an Oscar -- or, per Annie Proulx, one of those "magic gold-coated gelded godlings" -- Ang Lee would thank the fictional characters of Ennis and Jack in his acceptance speech.