Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 7860073 times)

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"R" is ruder
« Reply #16160 on: January 07, 2008, 09:38:57 am »
The screenwriters did not have to make the language any ruder to spice up the Brokeback Mountain.  Jack and Ennis use the same expressive language in the film that Annie Proulx gave them in the novella. 

In a language count, Crash was a ruder film than Brokeback Mountain.    Counting Cuss Words

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"S" is spoiled
« Reply #16161 on: January 07, 2008, 09:49:34 am »
The bikers spoiled the Fourth of July picnic for Ennis and his family when they made obscene comments like: "Wooeee...look at this crowd! There's bound to be lots of pussy on the hoof in a crowd like this."

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"T" is talkers
« Reply #16162 on: January 07, 2008, 10:03:59 am »
Jack and Ennis were equal-opportunity talkers of dirty words. 

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"U" is uncurbed
« Reply #16163 on: January 07, 2008, 10:12:11 am »
The language that Annie Proulx gave Jack and Ennis was uncurbed by the movie-making process.

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"V" is vile-talking
« Reply #16164 on: January 07, 2008, 10:28:39 am »
Ennis was roused to anger by the vile-talking bikers.

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"W" is whyn't
« Reply #16165 on: January 07, 2008, 11:27:33 am »
     A day or two later in the trailhead parking lot, horses loaded into the trailer, Ennis was ready to head back to Signal, Jack up to Lightning Flat to see the old man.  Ennis leaned into Jack's window, said what he'd been putting off the whole week, that likely he couldn't get away again until November after they'd shipped stock and before winter feeding started.     
     "November.  What in hell happened a August?  Tell you what, we said August, nine, ten days.  Christ, Ennis!  Whyn't you tell me this before?  You had a fuckin week to say some little word about it.  And why's it we're always in the friggin cold weather?  We ought a do somethin.  We ought a go south.  We ought a go to Mexico one day."


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"X" is xpressers
« Reply #16166 on: January 07, 2008, 11:55:09 am »
When it came to expletives Jack and Ennis were competent xpressers; but they couldn't  use that skill to express their feelings for each other at the end of summer 1963.


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Round 631 !
« Reply #16167 on: January 07, 2008, 12:09:00 pm »
Round Six Thirty One

Our Cussin' Ain't Done

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"A" is affectional
« Reply #16168 on: January 07, 2008, 12:12:10 pm »
Initially, Jack Fuckin' Twist was an affectional endearment; later it was said in disdain.

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"B" is bowdlerized
« Reply #16169 on: January 07, 2008, 12:31:20 pm »
Thanks to more lenient standards in modern films, the language in Brokeback Mountain was not bowdlerized.

Def:  To remove material that is considered offensive or objectionable from a book, for example (after Thomas Bowdler, English editor of an expurgated edition of Shakespeare).
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