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

[Meryl]

Her (Annie Proulx's) narration, with its echoes of Western genre fiction, is knobby and elliptical, driven by an engine as unpredictable as the one that runs Jack Twist's troublesome truck, with the result that it often backs into scenes that a more conventional writer would place front and center.     Men in Love - Is Brokeback Mountain a Gay Film?  by David Leavitt

[memento]

Jack went to great lengths in order to be with Ennis for their fishing trips - 14 hours of driving to be exact.

[Toast]

Cartman on South Park famously dismissed independent movies as "gay cowboys eating pudding." I have no idea where the pudding image came from, but I'm bound to say that Brokeback Mountain could use a little more of it—by which I mean more sweat and other bodily fluids. Ang Lee's formalism is so extreme that it's often laughable, and the sex is depicted as a holy union: Gay love has never been so sacred.   Lasso Me Tender

[Fran]

From an interview of Ang Lee by Stella Papamichael, BBC:

Q:  "Is the western setting vital to the nature of this love story, or could you have set it somewhere else?"

A:  "You could but it wouldn't be as poignant and poetic and elegiac in the way it was inherent in the literature provided by Annie Proulx.  I just don't see any other way....  I think that particular time she set it in really helped the privacy of their feelings and the uniqueness and therefore [it was] a pure way of telling a love story.  It's almost like the oldest love story, but you have the newest texture -- a newfound texture, so to speak -- and so I treasured that."

[memento]

Jack's on-the-fly approach to initiate sex with Ennis resulted in unbuckling belts and unzipping flies.

[Toast]

After Jack's on-the-fly approach, they become physical; and later Ennis and Jack both agree it's a one shot thing:
Ennis:  (flat) "I'm not no queer."
Jack:  (jumps in too quickly) "Me neither."
Ennis smokes.  Looks up at the stars.    [2003 screenplay]

[Fran]

The quick-reacting driver of the pickup truck braked sharply to keep from hitting Ennis.

[memento]

While they were on Brokeback, life was a bed of roses for Jack and Ennis, but after they came down, they started to notice the thorns.

[Toast]

Ennis:  (flat) "I'm not no queer."
Jack:  (jumps in too quickly) "Me neither."
Ennis smokes.  Looks up at the stars.    [2003 screenplay]

[Fran]

"When the Hi-Top folded, they moved to a small apartment in Riverton up over a laundry.  Ennis got on the highway crew, tolerating it but working weekends at the Rafter B in Exchange for keeping his horses out there."  [story]