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Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 5659361 times)

Offline Fran

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"V" is victims
« Reply #8060 on: October 30, 2006, 05:08:00 pm »
"Much of the power in the film emanates from the standout performances from Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams, who plays his wife Alma, as they collapse under internalized anxiety.  Both of them are, in their own way, victims." 
-- Nicholas Tam, The Gateway
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"W" is wore
« Reply #8061 on: October 30, 2006, 05:29:42 pm »
According to the New Yorker version of Brokeback Mountain,
Jack became more Texan and "wore Texas suits and a tall white hat." 
This phrase was later replaced with "and to finish the job grew a heavy mustache."
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"X" is xcised
« Reply #8062 on: October 30, 2006, 05:33:36 pm »
The aforementioned "Texas suits and a tall white hat" were xcised from the story to make room for Jack's heavy mustache.
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"Y" is Yoshino
« Reply #8063 on: October 30, 2006, 06:22:08 pm »
"Brokeback Mountain, which spans two decades beginning in 1963, depicts cowboys trapped in the first two generations of gay history.  The emotionally frozen Ennis can never fully embrace his love for Jack because he has been subjected to a particularly terrifying form of conversion therapy.  When he was nine, his father took him to see a man who had been beaten to death for having 'ranched up' with another man.  The heterosexual imperative reflected in that murder drives both Ennis and Jack to marry women.  But Jack believes a different life is possible — he tries to persuade Ennis that they can inhabit a closet built for two.  The tragedy of the film is that Jack is too far ahead of his time — it is the less courageous Ennis who survives." 
--  an excerpt from the book Covering:  The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights,
by Kenji Yoshino 

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"Z" is 'zine's
« Reply #8064 on: October 30, 2006, 06:34:15 pm »
Joe Aguirre flipped his 'zine's pages and said "ain't got no work for you" when Jack Twist revisited his trailer in 1964.

def - slang for magazine
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Round 291!
« Reply #8065 on: October 30, 2006, 06:40:16 pm »
           


           

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"A" is aphoristically
« Reply #8066 on: October 30, 2006, 06:50:31 pm »
Ennis aphoristically said, "Ain't got nothin', don't need nothin'."
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"B" is blankets
« Reply #8067 on: October 30, 2006, 07:08:55 pm »
"A few weeks later on the Saturday, [Ennis] threw all Stoutamire's [or the Coffeepot's, depending on which version of the story you're reading] dirty horse blankets into the back of his pickup and took them down to the Quik Stop Car Wash to turn the high-pressure spray on them."  [story]
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"C" is civilization
« Reply #8068 on: October 30, 2006, 07:35:39 pm »
Jack and Ennis avoid civilization because it is too dangerous.

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"D" is downplay
« Reply #8069 on: October 30, 2006, 08:06:19 pm »
Ennis tried to downplay his feelings about Tent Scene I, by saying to Jack "It's a one-shot thing."
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