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

[memento]

With each repeated “It’s alright,” that followed, something inside both of them began to heal, and without voicing it, they gave each other permission to explore forbidden thoughts.
With shuddering hands they embraced, knowing that the unfeeling animal sex they’d had last night was the only thing that was “a one shot deal.” As their lips met for the first time, hesitant at first, they became locked in breathless passion.

Brokeback Mountain Takes MTV's "Best Movie Kiss" Award

[Sason]

After Ennis crawled into the tent and fell asleep, Jack took his hand and placed it on his own woody.

[Fran]

Round 893!

The "ABCs of Brokeback Mountain" game continues.

[Fran]

Gustavo Santaolalla's Oscar-winning guitar score beautifully compliments the action, softly evoking the slow-burning affection at the film's start before gradually amplifying as love takes over. Ang Lee, one of the great directors currently at work, never allows the emotional content to tip over into melodrama -- the affecting moment when Alma discovers the affair is a masterclass in understatement. Lee's direction of his actors is particularly impressive, never less so than when Ledger delivers the film's last, enigmatic line: "Jack, I swear..."

-- Alex Davidson, MovieMail    

[memento]

In 1963, in a blistered butt-end fork in the road called Signal, Wyo., second-rate rodeo cowpoke Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and dirt-poor ranch hand Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) sign on to spend the summer at an isolated campsite on Brokeback Mountain herding sheep and living on canned beans. They are men of few words, hardened by the West and emotionally calloused by miserable childhoods. But as the summer drags into autumn, and the cruel climate, the dull routine of chopping wood for the campfire, and the job of protecting the flock from wolves and coyotes breed loneliness and boredom, the two young men open up to each other—cautiously at first, then with growing trust and friendship. Strangers and loners, isolated geographically and emotionally from the rest of the world, they learn to bond as soul mates. One night in the sub-zero cold, huddled together for warmth under a horse blanket, they also find each other physically, and the emotional impact of their first sexual encounter opens a floodgate of need, release, desire, shame and violence that haunts them for the next two decades.

Brokeback Merits Box-Office Boom by Rex Reed

[Meryl]

In 1963, in a blistered butt-end fork in the road called Signal, Wyo., second-rate rodeo cowpoke Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and dirt-poor ranch hand Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) sign on to spend the summer at an isolated campsite on Brokeback Mountain herding sheep and living on canned beans. They are men of few words, hardened by the West and emotionally calloused by miserable childhoods. But as the summer drags into autumn, and the cruel climate, the dull routine of chopping wood for the campfire, and the job of protecting the flock from wolves and coyotes breed loneliness and boredom, the two young men open up to each other—cautiously at first, then with growing trust and friendship. Strangers and loners, isolated geographically and emotionally from the rest of the world, they learn to bond as soul mates. One night in the sub-zero cold, huddled together for warmth under a horse blanket, they also find each other physically, and the emotional impact of their first sexual encounter opens a floodgate of need, release, desire, shame and violence that haunts them for the next two decades.

Brokeback Merits Box-Office Boom by Rex Reed

=aside=Sandy
Thanks 

[southendmd]

Gustavo Santaolalla's Oscar-winning guitar score beautifully compliments the action, softly evoking the slow-burning affection at the film's start before gradually amplifying as love takes over. Ang Lee, one of the great directors currently at work, never allows the emotional content to tip over into melodrama -- the affecting moment when Alma discovers the affair is a masterclass in understatement. Lee's direction of his actors is particularly impressive, never less so than when Ledger delivers the film's last, enigmatic line: "Jack, I swear..."

-- Alex Davidson, MovieMail    

=thanks= Fran

[Fran]

Gustavo Santaolalla's Oscar-winning guitar score beautifully compliments the action, softly evoking the slow-burning affection at the film's start before gradually amplifying as love takes over. Ang Lee, one of the great directors currently at work, never allows the emotional content to tip over into melodrama -- the affecting moment when Alma discovers the affair is a masterclass in understatement. Lee's direction of his actors is particularly impressive, never less so than when Ledger delivers the film's last, enigmatic line: "Jack, I swear..."

-- Alex Davidson, MovieMail     

[Meryl]

In 1963, in a blistered butt-end fork in the road called Signal, Wyo., second-rate rodeo cowpoke Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and dirt-poor ranch hand Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) sign on to spend the summer at an isolated campsite on Brokeback Mountain herding sheep and living on canned beans. They are men of few words, hardened by the West and emotionally calloused by miserable childhoods. But as the summer drags into autumn, and the cruel climate, the dull routine of chopping wood for the campfire, and the job of protecting the flock from wolves and coyotes breed loneliness and boredom, the two young men open up to each other—cautiously at first, then with growing trust and friendship. Strangers and loners, isolated geographically and emotionally from the rest of the world, they learn to bond as soul mates. One night in the sub-zero cold, huddled together for warmth under a horse blanket, they also find each other physically, and the emotional impact of their first sexual encounter opens a floodgate of need, release, desire, shame and violence that haunts them for the next two decades.

Brokeback Merits Box-Office Boom by Rex Reed

=aside=Sandy
Thanks again 

[memento]

Jack gleefully sings along to "King of the Road" on his way to see post-divorce Ennis.

=aside= Meryl
It was nothing.