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

[Fran]

Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx's no-holds-barred 1997 short story about two young men who meet in the summer of 1963 and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, is an exceptional work of art.

[southendmd]

When Ennis said to Alma, "Once burned..." he fomented trouble.

[memento]

Brokeback Mountain is the story of two young men, one who gambled on love and the other who was afraid to.

[Fran]

Alma thought attending the church social might be more fun than spending yet another humdrum Saturday night in the little apartment over the laundromat.

[southendmd]

In her story, Annie conveys the immense power that the mountain had over Ennis and Jack.

[memento]

Dan Kuzmenko is listed in the credits as key location production assistant.

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[Fran]

While heading up to Jack's boyhood bedroom, Ennis recalled one of Jack's stories detailing the physical maltreatment he had suffered at the hands of his father when he was just three or four years old.

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[southendmd]

As for Ennis, nomen est omen; that is, his name, "island in the sea" is fitting.

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Happy New Year!

[Sason]

When Alma opened the front door to the apartment over the laundromat, she saw her husband kissing another man. That was not okey in Alma's world view.

[Fran]

An excerpt from William Leung's "So Queer Yet So Straight:  Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet and Brokeback Mountain":

Alma (Jr.) is both puzzled and amused by her dad's preoccupation with Troy and Kurt. But the reason for Ennis's preoccupation, which perhaps even Ennis himself only registers subconsciously, is his bewilderment that two young people who have known each other for "about a year" should marry at their choosing, while two old people who had loved each other for twenty years should have nothing to show for their love except two shirts in a closet. Ennis's last question, "does he love you?" leaves another question unasked: why is love good enough for Alma and Kurt, when it was not good enough for Ennis and Jack? The film is full of moments like this: they're gone in a blink. But if this conversation is supposed to be a political statement about same-sex marriage, then the statement is so neutral and understated as to have no punch at all, being an expression of Ennis's internal struggle to make sense of his life; yet it is all the more affecting for being so naturalistically and unobtrusively integrated into the narrative.

=aside= Paul
Congrats on passing 9,000!