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

[memento]

Ang Lee decided that the Signal Gas Station Scene was unworthy of inclusion in the film.

[southendmd]

Carseland had a well-situated gas station with a Quonset building, according to findingbrokeback.com

[southendmd]

Round 834!

The Deleted Rifle Scene

http://www.findingbrokeback.com/Deleted_Scenes/_Deleted_Scenes_Frame.html

[Meryl]

Ennis has to refuse Jack's expensive gift, telling him it's out of the question, what with Alma worried about affording nice things for the girls:

You don’t get it. Alma sees this ... You just don’t get it. Alma, me and my shit jobs, then struttin’ home with this in my hands, with her goin’ on about this an’ that we can’t afford for the girls.

[Fran]

In this deleted scene, Jack bestows Ennis with a limited-edition, custom-finished hunting rifle, which Ennis says he cannot accept.

=aside=
These deleted scenes make for interesting themes. 
(Thank heaven for FindingBrokeback.com!)

[southendmd]

JACK

I got somethin’ for you too. I was gonna wait till our last morning.

He gets up, opens a duffle bag, finds a package, a long box.

JACK

C’mon.

ENNIS looks tentative. Then opens the box. It’s a spectacular, custom-finished hunting rifle.

{script}

=aside=
This scene was filmed in Seebe (pronounced "see-bee"), same place as the reunion cliffs.
Unfortunately, one cannot visit there any more--the gate is locked and covered in barbed wire.

[memento]

In this deleted scene, Jack gave Ennis a gift which he thought had great desirability - a custom-finished hunting rifle - but Ennis turned it down.

[Fran]

JACK

I got somethin’ for you too. I was gonna wait till our last morning.

He gets up, opens a duffle bag, finds a package, a long box.

JACK

C’mon.

ENNIS looks tentative. Then opens the box. It’s a spectacular, custom finished hunting rifle.

JACK

That’s gold plate on the back there. See the engraving. Limited edition.

[script]

[southendmd]

The deleted Rifle Scene actually contains a fart joke:

JACK

Beans.

ENNIS

And I’m gonna fix ’em just the way you like ’em, spoon ’em cold straight from the can.

JACK smiles.

JACK

I’ll eat ’em from your hand, if you’re willin’ to breath the consequences after that tent gets zippered up tonight.

[memento]

FindingBrokeback.com commented on the exchange of gifts in the Rifle Scene:  Jack brought a flashy rifle and Ennis brought beans, reviving one of the film’s most memorable symbols. In a meeting of the extraordinary and the plain, confidence encounters fear. Jack suggests, Ennis rejects.