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

[Fran]

Although Jack tried his best to convince Ennis to share his dream of a "sweet life," Ennis found Jack's arguments unpersuasive.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNkP-lOZxrk[/youtube]

[southendmd]

Jack woke up from a sound sleep, and before you know it, wham--he was implying "i'm your man".

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6JkbTegpMI[/youtube]

[southendmd]

Round 814!

Another Music Round!

Post an unplayed word,
along with a song title that somehow relates to our BBM

[memento]

In TS2, it was clear how much Jack adores Ennis when he tenderly embraces him, thinking "I want you."

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhOc0V-ES40[/youtube]

[Fran]

From the Production Notes for Brokeback Mountain:

Judy Becker:  Ang and I, and Rodrigo, talked about how the towns would be a strong contrast to the mountains – colorless and cluttered. We didn’t have the resources to build a huge amount of the sets. The biggest challenge was finding the right locations. During prep, when we found an apartment and a diner that I could transform into the places that I had envisioned in my head and discussed with Ang, that was a great feeling.

I did an enormous amount of research, both into the periods and the locales. The 1967 supermarket sequence, for example, was a very specific process; researching what products were available, what the labels looked like, what the advertising looked like, what the supermarket looked like.

I looked at imagery of small towns. One thing that struck me, which Ang and I discussed early on, was that although the movie takes place mostly in the 1960s and 1970s, the towns still looked like they could be in earlier decades. We went to Wyoming and Texas to do some research and, even now, so much detail and architecture is left over from pre-World War II. Change happened very, very slowly in small towns in the West.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eDkAG3R0h8[/youtube]

[southendmd]

Heath was interested in chess's pleasures.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeBRtIR5RH0[/youtube]

[memento]

While Jack gets ready to come down from the mountain, Heath dillydallies, thinking, "I don't want to say goodbye."

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqp9_ZekVHE[/youtube]

[Fran]

An excerpt from Ethan Aames's interview with Heath Ledger for Cinema Confidential:

Q:  What was the biggest challenge in figuring out Ennis?

HEATH:  Well, the challenging thing for me I think was in preproduction, figuring out what to do with so little time. I guess the aging process was probably what I thought was one of the important aspects, because without that, the whole story goes up sh*t creek without a paddle. And also, it had to be so subtle the aging process. Physically aging between 18 and 40 is fairly slim and subtle, and also for Ennis, the character I was playing; he didn’t really evolve emotionally either within that age at the time. I used my accent to voice the tone of the voice at the beginning of the film when he’s younger; it’s pitched a little higher and it’s a little more useful and energetic and enthusiastic and it slowly kinda gets deeper and deeper and raspier and more fixed and tighter towards the end. I thought that was just a subtle vehicle I could use to age.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29T1ZcCrsm0[/youtube]

[southendmd]

Ennis could never understand Jack's fascination with a sweet life together.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqqBs6kkzHE[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDPjG4leifk[/youtube]

(From the ridiculous to the sublime.)

[memento]

After Brokeback, Jack grubbed around Texas without any money, looking for work.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl6NfQyNLto[/youtube]