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

[Fran]

"A big-haired and bare-chested turn in Brokeback Mountain accelerated [Anne Hathaway's] transition to serious leading roles."

-- Patrick Huguenin, New York Daily News   

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yrs9JtswsQ[/youtube]

[memento]

 "Annie Proulx' short story, Brokeback Mountain, appeared unheralded in The New Yorker Magazine in 1997 and immediately became a modern classic--a brilliant, poetic love story between two cowboys in the western United States. (Begining in 1963, before the emergence of the broad-based gay rights movement earmarked by the Stonewall riots, the depiction of homophobia at that time seems not to have dated at all.) Nonjudgmental and sympathetic, Proulx' story, romantic but never descending into the sentimental, showed the sad impact of irrational homopohbia on the lives of two men who happen to be gay. That, as cowboys, they are iconic of all that is masculine America adds a decidedly deliberate level of irony."



 

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

=aside= Paul
Thanks for the duet. It's lovely.

=aside= Meryl
I own Black and White Night and never get tired of watching it.  All the band members seemed to have idolized Roy. They also play it on PBS quite often.

[southendmd]

When Alma Jr. visited Ennis, she interrupted his lonelihood.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFxbIYF6cmw[/youtube]
(Is that intro in Finnish?  Just a guess.)

[Meryl]

Jack wanted more than anything to map out his and Ennis's future along the lines of a sweet life together, but Ennis always came back with "you can't do that."

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlW3SolhcIo[/youtube]

[memento]

Jack and Ennis had already celebrated their nineteenth birthdays when they met on Brokeback.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vMCDJi-_Po&feature=related[/youtube]

[Fran]

In a published article entitled "A Touch of Brokeback Mountain in All Men," San Francisco author, sex therapist, and psychologist David Ortmann asks, "If cowboys are the rugged, archetypal pioneers steeped in old Western folklore, how fitting is it that a movie about two cowboys and their life-long love for each other is one of the most pioneering works on the film landscape today?"

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7-10JylGZ8[/youtube]

[southendmd]

After observing Ennis and the reunion kiss, Alma wondered whether she had to police every breath he took.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rygpvh5bV4[/youtube]

[memento]

Ennis was extremely responsive to Jack's advances during those summer nights on Brokeback.

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

=aside= Paul
Love your stinging wit.

[Fran]

The meadow stones glowed white-green and a flinty wind worked over the meadow, scraped the fire low, then ruffled it into yellow silk sashes.

[story]

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

Look at the stars, look how they shine for you
And all the things you do, yeah, they were all yellow....

[southendmd]

When Ennis is on the mountain, the boundaries are blurred, and there's no other way but to give in to his passion.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2_IwvA6pY8[/youtube]