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

[Fran]

creenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana managed to provide additional narrative detail without straying from Annie Proulx's basic storyline.

[memento]

tarting Jack's broken-down pickup truck upon leaving Brokeback required Ennis's magic touch.

[Sason]

itting in the bar in Signal, Jack tells Ennis about the carnage among the sheep, caused by lightning last year on Brokeback.



=aside=Fran

I love the little bluebird! 

[Fran]

"ometimes it took weeks to get the right phrase or descriptor for particular characters."

-- Annie Proulx, in "Getting Movied," describing how Brokeback Mountain was a hard story to write     

=reply= Sonja
Me, too. 

[southendmd]

eeing Brokeback Mountain entitles viewers to complete the story in their own lives.


=aside= Sonja, Fran
I think it looks like a blue hummingbird!

[Sason]

uspicious Alma figured the reason for Ennis not using the fishing line in five years, wasn't just forgetfulness.




=aside= Paul
Hummingbird, schmummingbird. It's a bird,
it's blue, and it's cute.
That's enough for me!

[memento]

eeing Jack get rebuffed after trying to pick up Jimbo's tab, the bartender put in his two cents and tried to gave Jack a tip about calf-roping, resulting in Jack throwing down his money minus a gratuity.

[Fran]

ure enough, Jack, Ennis, and the Chileans had one heckuva time untangling the sheep.

[southendmd]

eeing Earl's dead body made Ennis intuit that ranching up with a man could lead to serious trouble.

[memento]

teve Persall wrote a review of Brokeback Mountain entitled: "Brokeback Mountain rises above hype - Ang Lee's film will be considered a social statement, but at heart it's a love story of whose beautifully woven fabric homosexuality is only a thread."

An excerpt follows: Jack contacts Ennis, requesting a Brokeback reunion. It's the first of several meetings over the years, ostensibly for fishing, although they never bait a hook. Alma's suspicions begin when she sees Jack and Ennis kissing but can't confront her husband about it. Lee's film becomes a western class saga on the order of George Stevens' Giant, recalling the hindsight homoeroticism of that film's stars, Rock Hudson and James Dean.

Much happens over the next two decades, some of it unsavory, as Jack's true colors are revealed and Ennis isolates himself from his family. The repercussions of their affair are smartly detailed in the screenplay based on Annie Proulx's short story, never sappy or campy as hesitant viewers may expect. Brokeback Mountain is so delicately layered that the homosexual angle becomes just another thread in an unshakable romantic tragedy.