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

[Meryl]

The last thing Alma expected from Jack's visit to Riverton was that he would hijack her married happiness practically the first moment he appeared.

[memento]

Ennis and Jack seemed to agree that elk was an improvement to their dining options.

[southendmd]

While leaning against his truck Jack stared at Ennis in vampish languishment.

[Meryl]

After he met Jack, Ennis started a twenty-year process of serving the twin monuments of Love and Duty.

[Fran]

"There is no question that being together is impossible. Apart from the duty Ennis, especially, feels towards his family, there is the very real possibility that if the nature of their relationship were discovered it could get them killed. So they take what they can get, meeting a few times a year for fishing trips in the mountains while trying to maintain their respective lives and relationships. It is an arrangement that becomes progressively more painful as time passes and takes a terrible toll on the men and the women in their lives. The story's tragic outcome is both predictable and heartbreaking."

-- Nancy McDermott, 'They sure did dress nice'   

[southendmd]

There was much contemporary ornamentation in Jack and Lureen's house.

[memento]

After the jolly minister made the marriage pronouncement, he offered to kiss the bride if the groom didn't.

[Fran]

"Proulx's story summarizes large portions of the lives and relationships of Jack and Ennis, leaving much to the reader's imagination. In the screenplay, many of these incidents are spelled out in more detail. The men's marriages and relationships with their wives and wives' families, Jack's sojourns to Mexico, and other elements of their lives when they're not together are given more attention in the movie. Still, the screenplay stays on track with the story as Proulx presents it. Some details are extrapolated or added, but for the most part the screenplay expansion grows organically from the source material. Because Proulx leaves a clear road map for her characters, McMurtry and Ossana were able to fill in the details along that throughline, and did a compelling job of it."

-- Katriena Knight, "Book to Movie: Brokeback Mountain"   

[southendmd]

The boys depended on their weekly shipments of whiskey.

[memento]

Set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, the film tells the story of two young men—a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy—who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys, and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love. Early one morning in Signal, Wyoming, Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) meet while lining up for employment with local rancher Joe Aguirre (Randy Quaid). The world which Ennis and Jack have been born into is at once changing rapidly and yet scarcely evolving. Both young men seem certain of their set places in the heartland—obtaining steady work, marrying, and raising a family—and yet hunger for something beyond what they can articulate. When Aguirre dispatches them to work as sheepherders up on the majestic Brokeback Mountain, they gravitate towards camaraderie and then a deeper intimacy.

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