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

[southendmd]

Egged on by Ennis's "Hey asshole" comment, the trucker outside the Black n' Blue Eagle bar proved himself a hard-boiled adversary.

=aside= Meryl
Ennis sure got a bit scrambled by that encounter!

[Meryl]

Ennis had egg on his face (along with some hard-earned bruises) after his inglorious defeat at the hands of the hard-boiled trucker.

=aside=Paul

Egg-zactly! 

[Fran]

Please do not miss a frame of these opening 45 or 50 minutes, because they are the most beautiful Lee has ever committed to film. Dreamlike and at the same time intensely realistic, they conjure an unlikely relationship -- unlikely both for the time and place of its action, and unlikely for issuing from mainstream Hollywood. You may already know Brokeback Mountain as "that gay cowboy movie", but it hardly does justice to the nuance of texture and feeling that Lee has lovingly finessed. Adapted from the Annie Proulx short story, it begins with two young farmhands, Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal), riding out to tend sheep for a summer on Brokeback Mountain, a job that mostly involves chowing down baked beans and avoiding each other's eyeline. Ennis is the more reticent of the two, Jack the jokier, more open personality, and for long stretches the modest, plangent chords of Gustavo Santaolalla's guitar soundtrack fill the silences between them.

Nothing seems to happen, yet in the laconic phrases of the script (by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana) and in Lee's patient control of mood and landscape everything is happening, or about to happen. By degrees the intimacy that has united the two men lurches one night into physical passion, and, in spite of the awkwardness the morning after, a flame is lit between them. It is love, in fact, only a love that dare not speak its name, even to themselves. "You know, I ain't queer," Ennis mutters. "Me neither," replies Jack. That's the sum of their relationship chat.

-- Anthony Quinn, The Independent   

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[Sason]

Many of the male characters in Brokeback Mountain are showing off their machismo in a very unpleasant way.

[southendmd]

Repeated viewings of this nuance-filled film certainly reward the viewer.

[Fran]

After overindulging in whiskey, Ennis became dizzy drunk and could hardly stand up.

[Sason]

 The two shirts were like a present, from Jack and Ma Twist both, to Ennis.

[memento]

Changing from a diet of beans to a diet of elk resulted in a reduction of fiber, but not necessarily roughage, in the boys' diet.

=aside= Fran
Thanks for the welcome back. It's nice to be missed.

[Meryl]

It took just a mite too long for the bikers to get it through their skulls that they should keep their slopbucket mouths shut.

[Fran]

Both Ennis and Jack were born in the thinly populated state of Wyoming.