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

[Fran]

From the Brokeback Mountain review at Answers.com:

The American Humane Association raised concerns that animals were treated improperly during filming, alleging that sheep were handled roughly and that an elk appeared to have been "shot on cue," suggesting further that the animal was anesthetized for this purpose, violating standard guidelines for animal handling in the movie industry.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6U4XakchT0[/youtube]

=reply= stonebiscuit
Glad you found it interesting.

[stonebiscuit]

As hard as he tried, Ennis couldn't deny that Jack brought an injection of happiness into his life. This thing had got into his soul and he couldn't give it up.....

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYDemDKgsX8[/youtube]

[memento]

Jack spent half of the time, while he was rodeoing, fixing his lemon of a truck.

[youtube=425,350]

[/youtube]

[Fran]

From Answers.com:

In an article in American Sexuality Magazine, bisexual activist Amy Andre critiqued the media's avoidance of the use of the term "bisexual" in association with Brokeback Mountain:

"Brokeback Mountain is a not a movie about gay people, and there are no gay people in it. There. I said it. Despite what you may have read in the many reviews that have come out about this new cowboy feature film, Brokeback Mountain is a bisexual picture. Why can't film reviewers say the word 'bisexual' when they see lead characters with sexual and romantic relationships with both men and women? I am unaware of a single review of Brokeback calling the leads what they are -- a sad statement on the invisibility of bisexual experience and the level of biphobia in both the mainstream and gay media."

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

[stonebiscuit]

With everything that Alma witnessed you think she might have fled to a nunnery, instead she decided she'd had enough of those nasty boys and checked out with the grocery boy...

[youtube=425,350]

[/youtube]

[memento]

Alma was frightened by Ennis's overreaction at the Fourth of July picnic.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEHj8_mzSqk[/youtube]

[Fran]

"Left alone in a pastoral setting, the taciturn Ledger and the effusive Gyllenhaal form an unlikely friendship that develops into an awkward, passionate love, one they agree can't continue once they come down from the mountain."

-- Keith Phipps, A.V. Club   

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

Oh, sh*t, there's a bear,
Could you hand me that shotgun, buddy,
Also that chair....  LOL

=aside= Sandy
  Hey Sandy girl....

[southendmd]

Jack's offer of a sweet life with Ennis was revolutionary.

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

[memento]

Ennis had been a student, but had to drop out before his his sophomore year of high school because his truck broke down.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYTl-0Nx4Pk[/youtube]

=aside= Fran
 

[Fran]

Charles S. Houser's review of Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain:

The movie BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN has not come my town, but I've certainly cued into all the media buzz. So when I saw the little 55-page movie tie-in paperback with Ledger and Gyllenhaal on the cover I made an impulse purchase. In fact, I also bought Campbell Scott's audio CD recording of the story. Whether you experience this story through reading or by listening to Scott's thoughtful, nuanced performance, this is a powerful, poignant, and understated story.

This story about two ranch hands who find love, passion, and companionship while herding sheep one summer, begins in 1963 and continues intermittently for many years, following a predictable trajectory. But its predictability is not the result of inept writing on Proulx's part, but on the tragic nature of two men trapped in a specific time and place. Proulx describes their situation with compassion and is careful to show her readers that these reticient cowboys are not clueless oafs, unreflective and inured to their situation. The poignancy is heightened when we as readers reflect on how little seems to have changed since the time of the story -- not the threat of violence, not the public unwillingness to allow two men to live together as intimate life partners. Proulx speaks with expansive tenderness. This story seems to be her answer to THE LARAMIE PROJECT. "We're not all like that," she seems to be saying. She's an amazing [storyteller] with an astounding gift for poetry and for capturing the way people really speak.  

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjTB4kFrc5U[/youtube]