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

[Fran]

From Ethan Aames's interview with Michelle Williams for Cinema Confidential:

Q:  But do you think she could've saved their marriage had she said something the first time she saw Ennis and Jack kiss?

MICHELLE:  Hmm, that’s interesting. [pause] It’s hard for me to deal with shoulda versus coulda because I don’t see it as a choose-your-own-adventure ending. I feel it was -- it’s the only way you saw, it’s the only one possible outcome. But I don’t know. That’s hard for me to imagine. I can’t imagine that it would have saved their marriage. It certainly wouldn’t have made him stop loving Jack.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE5f4hVMCew&feature=related[/youtube]

[Meryl]

Ennis broke down after Jack finally laid the insubstantial nature of their long relationship before him:  "It's because of you, Jack, that I'm like this.  I'm nothin'.  I'm nowhere."

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY8paOcA_F8[/youtube]

[southendmd]

When story Ennis was at his loneliest, he dreamed a little dream of Jack.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZPmZ64m3_4[/youtube]

[memento]

"After reading the story the first time, it became clear that there was no reason why Ang Lee's adaptation shouldn't succeed, at least on a script level. Proulx's brusque prose details the passing of years with brevity and elegance -- each intense emotion is given just enough breath to burst with life. The rough-spoken love story of Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, two men ultimately kept apart by fear, takes the possibilities promised by a vast expanse of Western landscape and reveals how meaningless they are if left unpursued. It's a powerful piece of work. It is also a complete and thorough treatment for a movie."

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

[Fran]

Brokeback Mountain was banned from cinema screenings in most nations in the Middle East.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV__njYFhc4&feature=related[/youtube]

"Everything (everything) will be just fine
Everything (everything) will be all right (all right)...."

[southendmd]

Although Cassie continued to make overtures to Ennis, she soon realized it was "game over".

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqi4C36AaTw[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSsR_7OHsjc[/youtube]

[memento]

Ennis told Jack that after they had split up that summer, he had gut cramps so bad that he almost puked. He said it took him a year to figure out it was because he should never have let him out of his sight, but it was too late then by a long, long while.

[youtube=425,350][youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPeVbEg1DHE[/youtube][/youtube]

[Fran]

"Brokeback Mountain has had little effect on my writing life but is the source of constant irritation in my private life. There are countless people out there who think the story is open range to explore their fantasies and to correct what they see as an unbearably disappointing story. They constantly send ghastly manuscripts and pornish rewrites of the story to me, expecting me to reply with praise and applause for 'fixing' the story. They certainly don’t get the message that if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it."

-- Annie Proulx     

Return to the Range

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq-ZmAYLeB8[/youtube]

"All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am...."

[southendmd]

When Ennis returned hiss affections, Jack thought, "s'wonderful"!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c59Osjwews4[/youtube]

[memento]

Ennis and Jack were being less than truthful about the feelings they had for each other on Brokeback, but when it came time to leave, Jack thought: "Hey, that's no way to say goodbye."

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jexNsBjz1r8&feature=related[/youtube]