Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 5399391 times)

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"H" is harpies
« Reply #20090 on: July 09, 2009, 11:33:47 pm »
"A lesser filmmaker might have painted the women as nags or harpies, but Ang allows Ennis’s wife Alma (Michelle Williams) in particular a great deal of poignancy and doesn’t avoid showing the pain that Ennis’s betrayal causes her as well as the children. Jack’s wife Lureen (Anne Hathaway), a rodeo princess and heavy-equipment heiress, is likewise appealing and sympathetic, though less developed as a character and lacking a satisfying character arc."


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"I" is ickier
« Reply #20091 on: July 10, 2009, 10:37:29 am »
Annie Proulx's short story provides a richer, though perhaps ickier impression of the room at the Siesta Motel than does the close-up shot of Ennis and Jack in the film:  "The room stank of semen and smoke and sweat and whiskey, of old carpet and sour hay, saddle leather, shit and cheap soap."

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"L" is lamer
« Reply #20092 on: July 10, 2009, 11:36:07 am »
Ennis's "He's from Texas" excuse was lamer than most of his excuses.

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"M" is mellower
« Reply #20093 on: July 10, 2009, 03:33:42 pm »
In one of Ennis's mellower moments, he embraced Jack from behind, in what came to be known as the "dozy embrace."

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"N" is NFL's
« Reply #20094 on: July 13, 2009, 05:24:05 pm »
An excerpt from a letter written by Diana Ossana in response to Jim Buzinski's article "Why NFL Said No to Brokeback":

"She left the impression that the NFL was anti-gay and didn't want the footage in the movie," a producer who attended the breakfast told Outsports, on the condition of anonymity."
 
The above quote says far more about the anonymous producer's viewpoint regarding the NFL's refusal to grant us rights to their footage than it does about mine -- particularly since the producer chose to remain anonymous…


 

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"O" is odder
« Reply #20095 on: July 13, 2009, 09:05:25 pm »
Earl and Rich's living arrangement seemed odder than it should to some homophobic residents of Sage, Wyoming.
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"P" is pickier
« Reply #20096 on: July 13, 2009, 10:07:34 pm »
Jack tended to be pickier than Ennis.

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"R" is redder
« Reply #20097 on: July 13, 2009, 10:13:40 pm »
In the "Jack Nasty" scene, Ennis's face got redder and redder.

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"S" is sustained
« Reply #20098 on: July 13, 2009, 10:16:06 pm »
They had a high-time supper by the fire, a can of beans each, fried potatoes and a quart of whiskey on shares, sat with their backs against a log, boot soles and copper jeans rivets hot, swapping the bottle while the lavender sky emptied of color and the chill air drained down, drinking, smoking cigarettes, getting up every now and then to piss, firelight throwing a sparkle in the arched stream, tossing sticks on the fire to keep the talk going, talking horses and rodeo, roughstock events, wrecks and injuries sustained, the submarine Thresher lost two months earlier with all hands and how it must have been in the last doomed minutes, dogs each had owned and known, the draft, Jack's home ranch where his father and mother held on, Ennis's family place folded years ago after his folks died, the older brother in Signal and a married sister in Casper.

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"T" is tearier
« Reply #20099 on: July 13, 2009, 11:22:32 pm »
Cassie got tearier as the bus station scene progressed.

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