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

[Meryl]

eartsore after leaving the love of his life on Brokeback, Jack spent the next few years as a rambler.

=aside=Paul
Thanks, bud! 

=aside=Sonia
Glad to be of assistance! 

[southendmd]

airdos all blondish, Lureen and Lashawn trade quips about their respective sororities.

[Sason]

aving been forced to witness an act of transgression to a homosexual man as a kid, Ennis is forever afraid to acknowledge his own sexuality.

[Fran]

ere's how Brokeback Mountain's TS1 was described by staff writers at the blog Film School Rejects:

One of the hottest things is when sexual attraction ignites out of nowhere. It rarely happens in real life, but it happens a lot in films -- one of the best examples is the spur-of-the-moment passion that’s shared between Ennis and Jack. Shoved together in a tent barely big enough for one person, the two are almost mid-coitus before realizing it. It’s raw, unthinking, and beautiful. It’s also filmed simply, with Ang Lee opting for the sound of rustling blue jeans and animalistic grunts filling the entire soundscape.

TS1 was deemed the 8th hottest sex scene on film.

Really Good Sex: The 10 Hottest Sex Scenes on Film

[memento]

(eath) Ledger's Ennis Del Mar is the quintessential Westerner of few words, and the words he says are not always audible: He speaks with a Wild West lockjaw that's sometimes annoying but also weirdly hypnotic. Ledger's performance is prime Oscar bait: He's ostentatiously immobile, with uncanny low tones—his voice is 50 fathoms deep. The whole performance is subtextual.

Lasso Me Tender by David Edelstein

[Fran]

Round 928!

We move along to the letter "I".

Each post will begin with a word
that starts with the letter "I" and,
as usual, include an unplayed word.

We're going to have one of Jack and Ennis's
Brokeback campfires assist us with this round,
so please be sure to include the following
symbol at the beginning of your post:

[southendmd]

n riding up to the sheep, Ennis and Cigar Butt were on auto-pilot:

The summer went on and they moved the herd to new pasture, shifted the camp; the distance between the sheep and the new camp was greater and the night ride longer. Ennis rode easy, sleeping with his eyes open, but the hours he was away from the sheep stretched out and out.

{short story}

[Fran]

"nterestingly, Brokeback Mountain is based on Annie Proulx's 1997 New Yorker short story. Screenwriters Larry McMultry (Lonesome Dove) and Diana Ossana handle the brilliantly bittersweet material with a contradictory stroke of stark firmness and tenderness. Consequently, Lee's visionary outlook for the serene script has a simmering explosiveness because this film never hesitates or apologizes for actually demonstrating the physicality and psychological needs for these self-inflicted cowboys to embrace their passion and pain. Effectively, Lee oversees the slow burn in these complex men as the ambivalence of their convenient arrangement manifests itself into a solid romance that's as rampant and reassuring as any other hand-holding narrative to date."

MovieEye.com

[memento]

n the light of the following day, Ennis crept out of the tent, trying to understand the events of the night before.

[Meryl]

immediately after Lureen Newsome's winning ride in the barrel race, Jack Twist was handing her her fallen red cowboy hat with a doff of his own and a charming smile.