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

[Fran]

[Toast]

American Rousseauism, with its worship of open plains and its dread of civic constraint, is nothing new. The erotic strain of it that unfurls in “Brokeback Mountain” may seem unprecedented, although, considering that womanless men, bedecked in denim, rivets, and distressed leather, have been pitching camp in the wilderness since movies began, it doesn’t take much of a nudge for the subtext to rise to the surface. There is little in Lee’s film that would have rattled the spurs of Montgomery Clift in “Red River.”     

Anthony Lane 

[memento]

"Based on a 1997 Annie Proulx short story - whose bare bones have been fleshed out by screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana - Brokeback is both a biblical cautionary tale and a frontier saga."
-- Men in love, and in anguish by Carrie Rickey    

[Fran]

Joe Aguirre:  "Forest Service got designated campsites on the allotments.  Them camps can be three, four miles from where we pasture the woollies.  Bad predator loss if there's nobody lookin' after 'em at night.  (pause)  Now what I want (looks at Ennis) is a camp tender in the main camp where the Forest Service says, but the herder... (points at Jack) ...pitch a pup tent on the Q.T. with the sheep, and he's going to sleep there.  Eat your supper, breakfast in camp, but you sleep with the sheep, hundred percent, no fire, don't leave no sign.  You roll up that tent every mornin' case Forest Service snoops around."  [screenplay]

[Toast]

(John C. Twist) cares less about his son's life than his death; his one issue is that the boy's ashes not be scattered on Brokeback Mountain, as Jack had wished, but that he be buried in the family plot, that he be hypocritically reclaimed for something called the name of decency.   

[ProwlAmongUs]

Ennis meant everything to Jack.

[Fran]

"Ennis's breath came slow and quiet, he hummed, rocked a little in the sparklight and Jack learned against the steady heartbeat, the vibrations of the humming like faint electricity and, standing, he fell into sleep that was not sleep but something else drowsy and tranced until Ennis, dredging up a rusty but still useable phrase from the childhood time before his mother died, said, 'Time to hit the hay, cowboy.  I got a go.  Come on, you're sleepin' on your feet like a horse,' and gave Jack a shake, a push, and went off in the darkness."  [story]

[Toast]

Annie Proulx wrote that in May of 1983 on a boneless blue day Ennis and Jack come on a black bear. They safely watch as the bear gallops away.

[memento]

During the summer they spent on Brokeback, Ennis and Jack were able to relax and let it all hang out.

[southendmd]

Ennis insinuated he was a virgin when he said he hadn't yet had the opportunity to sin.