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

[Fran]

At the end of the summer, Joe Aguirre examines the herd and has unflattering words for Ennis and Jack:

"Some of these never went up there with you. The count ain't what I'd hoped for, neither. You ranch stiffs ain't never no good."

[memento]

"Peering down through the years at the power of that Brokeback Mountain summer on the lives of Ennis and Jack, Lee delivers a virtually forensic vision of desire, denial and emotional cost. The depth of Ennis and Jack's attachment to one another gives their lives meaning and drains all other meaning out of them, rendering the men both enriched and destitute emotionally. If Brokeback Mountain  never shies away from the sexual truth of that attachment, it doesn't settle for the merely explicit either. It's a great love story, pure and simple. And simultaneously the story of a great love that's broken and warped in the torture chamber of a society's intolerance and threats, an individual's fear and repression."

-- B Ruby Rich, The Guardian   

[Fran]

Round 906!

In honor of tonight's Oscars, hosted by
James Franco and BBM's Anne Hathaway, I bring you

The Oscar Round

Each post will contain an unplayed word as well
as a word (or words) containing the letters
"os" or "car" or, better yet, the word "Oscar."

[southendmd]

A.M.P.A.S, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, gave Oscar nominations to three of the four principal BBM actors in 2006.  Anne got her revenge by co-hosting in 2011.

[Fran]

While mangling his way through a Carl Perkins song, Jack bawled "what I say-ay-ay."

[memento]

Eating beans every day provided a good source of protein and carbohydrates for Jack and Ennis.

[Meryl]

In a shabby Riverton courtroom in 1975, Alma divorces Ennis, cutting her losses and looking to another man to carry the burdens of raising two girls.

[Fran]

To enrich the context of the Brokeback Mountain screenplay, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana rounded out the short story's existing characters, created new scenes, and fleshed out existing ones.

[memento]

As a poignant portrayal of homosexual love, director Ang Lee delivered a small arthouse film that went on to win 4 Golden Globe® awards, 4 BAFTA® awards and 3 Academy® awards including the Academy® Award for Best Director. And yet it equally marked the first occasion in which a film that had won the noted Writer's Guild, Producer's Guild and Director's Guild of America awards did not go on to receive the Academy® Award for Best Picture.

That said, the string of major awards that Brokeback Mountain did receive, are remarkable. Then again, this should be of no surprise, given this is but an ode to human feelings, one that tugs at the heartstrings by contrasting true love against prejudice and outright homophobia. And whilst a gay love story; albeit one told in an almost laconic style, this also became a film that crossed over to mainstream cinema by tapping into the universal plight of two people who simply can't live without each other, but must do so for their very survival. In doing so, this feature made genuine homosexual love and not the candy floss variant of such that Hollywood so often delivers, finally arrive at a multiplex near you! Frankly this deeply emotional work deserved every award it got and one inparticular that it didn't receive. Yet it also proved what a great loss to the acting fraternity the tragic death of Heath Ledger marked; a fine actor who had so much more to give and who here brilliantly captures the very essence of and in the words of the song itself, a love that will never grow old.

gaycelluloid.com

[southendmd]

Ennis scoffed at the grandiosity of Jack's sweet-life plan.