Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post) (Read 5598177 times)

Fran · « **Reply #7740 on:** October 13, 2006, 03:23:01 pm »

"Given that this is pre-Stonewall and the fact that Jack and Ennis both envision themselves as descendents of prototypical masculine American archetypes working the land, they are largely unaware of any physical and, importantly, emotional desire for each other. Yet, when they first meet, they are clearly cruising each other with stolen glances and awkward posturing, even if they don't know it."

-- James Kendrick, QNetwork Film Desk

memento · « **Reply #7741 on:** October 13, 2006, 07:58:48 pm »

Travel Alberta gives the locations of many of the places where the film was shot. In the section on Fort Macleod they say: "Bunking down at the Red Coat Inn the cast shot several scenes in this southern town that until now has been most famous for its Empress Theatre and proximity to the UNESCO site of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump." Link

Toast · « **Reply #7742 on:** October 13, 2006, 08:28:56 pm »

Fran · « **Reply #7743 on:** October 13, 2006, 08:57:20 pm »

"There were only the two of them on the mountain flying in the euphoric, bitter air, looking down on the hawk's back and the crawling lights of vehicles on the plain below, suspended above ordinary affairs and distant from tame ranch dogs barking in the dark hours." [story]

memento · « **Reply #7744 on:** October 13, 2006, 09:10:50 pm »

Jack and Ennis made up for lost time by heading directly to the motel after not seeing each other for four years.

Toast · « **Reply #7745 on:** October 13, 2006, 09:34:19 pm »

Annie Proulx has varied her nom de plume over the years.

E. A. Proulx - while writing articles for a men's magazine (at the suggestion of her editor).
E. Annie Proulx - the name under which she won a Pulitzer Prize for The Shipping News in 1993.
Annie Proulx - which is how she published Brokeback Mountain in the New Yorker 1997, and how she is credited for the paperback edition of The Shipping News and her later books.

She was born as Edna Annie Proulx.

Fran · « **Reply #7746 on:** October 13, 2006, 09:46:47 pm »

"During the promotion of the film of Brokeback Mountain, [Annie] Proulx spoke about the origins and development of her story. In a FAQ posted on her website, www.annieproulx.com, she wrote that 'Brokeback began as an examination of country homophobia in the land of the Great Pure Noble Cowboy. Years of accumulated observation went into the story.'"

-- Wikipedia

memento · « **Reply #7747 on:** October 13, 2006, 10:38:09 pm »

Cassie wasn't pussyfooting around when she put her feet in Ennis' lap and asked for a foot rub.

Toast · « **Reply #7748 on:** October 13, 2006, 10:52:20 pm »

Some will likely decry Brokeback Mountain for “queering” an ostensibly masculine and unquestionable cornerstone of American mythology, but all one need do is watch the gun comparison sequence in Red River (1948) to see just how easily the latent homosexual connotations of the Western can come to the surface."

QNetwork James Kendrick Film Desk

Fran · « **Reply #7749 on:** October 13, 2006, 11:11:15 pm »

"Ennis rode easy, sleeping with his eyes open, but the hours he was away from the sheep stretched out and out." [story]

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Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post) (Read 5598177 times)

Fran

"I" is importantly

memento

"J" is Jump

Toast

"K" is keywords

Fran

"L" is lights

memento

"M" is made

Toast

"N" is nom

Fran

"O" is origins

memento

"P" is pussyfooting

Toast

"Q" is queering

Fran

"R" is rode