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

[Fran]

"Playing a man prone to downward gazes and half-mumbled sentiments, Ledger seems as afraid of his own desires as he is ashamed of them. His quietness and gift for repression allow him to drift into a conventional American life, and it's a credit to his acting talent that his past work has previously only suggested that he connects the specifics of his character's life to a more iconic image of stoic American manhood: They aren't all gay cowboys, but the world is full of uncomplaining men whose lives fall short of the ones they'd imagined for themselves."

-- Keith Phipps, A.V. Club    

[youtube=425,350][youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m34xyw8E-Qs&feature=fvw[/youtube][/youtube]

[memento]

Tired of being a lonesome traveler, Jack decided to improve his living situation by settling down and marrying Lureen.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5ywcLXv-SA[/youtube]

[southendmd]

Jack finally expressed his lament:  "we coulda had a good life together, a real good life".

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

[Fran]

"Brokeback Mountain isn’t a film about the politics of morality or the religious implications of homosexuality; it’s a film about love; a condition that can be as forbidden and foreboding for a man and woman of different ethnic backgrounds or social classes in 2009, as it was for two cowboys struggling with their sexuality in the early 1960s."

-- Ben Williams, at Blu-ray.com  

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CLGtgovIqc[/youtube]

[memento]

What she saw at the four-year reunion along with Ennis's fishing trips niggled away at Alma until she decided it was time for movin' out.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UBpt1dya60[/youtube]

[Meryl]

Optometrists have a legitimate bone to pick with Ang Lee over Brokeback Mountain, as spectacles are scarce as hen's teeth in the film.

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

[Fran]

From an opinion piece at the Los Angeles Times:

For all their monosyllabism, Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis (Heath Ledger) are fonts of emotion. Sure, they're prone to the usual male-pattern drinking, fighting and marrying women without knowing quite what they're doing, but when it comes to their love for each other, their hearts aren't just on their sleeves, they're pinned to their foreheads.

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

[memento]

Ennis sat at the kitchen table with Jack's father. Jack's mother, stout and careful in her movements as though recovering from an operation, said, "Want some coffee, don't you? Piece a cherry cake?"

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gHhne5cUCE&feature=related[/youtube]

[southendmd]

Lureen, according to Jack: she's good at making hard deals in the machinery business.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gbz-Lau5tc[/youtube]

[Meryl]

Ennis accused Jack of trampy behavior in Mexico: "I heard about what they got in Mexico for boys like you."

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