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Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 7881679 times)

Offline southendmd

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"P" is plenteous
« Reply #16870 on: March 19, 2008, 08:16:22 pm »
Alma had plenteous reasons to be angry that Thanksgiving.
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"R" is righteous
« Reply #16871 on: March 19, 2008, 08:23:42 pm »
Alma was righteous in her indignation, as she ran through the list of Ennis's transgressions and sins.
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« Reply #16872 on: March 19, 2008, 08:47:41 pm »
     "You still go fishin with that Jack Twist?"
     "Some."  He thought she'd take the pattern off the plate with the scraping.
     "You know," she said, and from her tone he knew something was coming, "I used to wonder how come you never brought any trouts home.  Always said you caught plenty.  So one time I got your creel case open the night before you went on one a your little trips -- price tag still on it after five years -- and I tied a note on the end of the line.  It said, hello Ennis, bring some fish home, love, Alma.  And then you come back and said you'd caught a bunch a browns and ate them up.  Remember?  I looked in the case when I got a chance and there was my note still tied there and that line hadn't touched water in its life."  As though the word "water" had called out its domestic cousin, she twisted the faucet, sluiced the plates.
     "That doen't mean nothin."
     "Don't lie, don't try to fool me, Ennis.  I know what it means.  Jack Twist?  Jack Nasty.  You and him --"
     She'd overstepped his line.  He seized her wrist; tears sprang and rolled, a dish clattered.

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« Reply #16873 on: March 19, 2008, 09:13:31 pm »
After being outed by Alma in the kitchen, Ennis was thunderously mad, and went out into the snow for a quick, dirty fight.
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« Reply #16874 on: March 19, 2008, 09:24:38 pm »
Alma uniformly cataloged Ennis's sins: the fishing trips, time with Jack Nasty, the creel case--as Ennis's anger mounted.
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« Reply #16875 on: March 19, 2008, 09:59:41 pm »
The wrath of Jack at the lake when Ennis broke the news that he wouldn't be able to meet in August was rapidly followed by the even greater wrath of Ennis at Jack's admission that he'd been to Mexico.
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Round 664!
« Reply #16876 on: March 19, 2008, 10:30:40 pm »
Round 664!
He Stormed Out That Door!!


More Bitterness, Wrath, and Anger
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« Reply #16877 on: March 19, 2008, 10:31:32 pm »
The wrath of Jack at the lake when Ennis broke the news that he wouldn't be able to meet in August was rapidly followed by the even greater wrath of Ennis at Jack's admission that he'd been to Mexico.

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"B" is berate
« Reply #16878 on: March 19, 2008, 11:45:06 pm »
Jack wasn't going to just stand there and let Ennis berate him for making trips to Mexico or for needing something that he didn't hardly ever get.
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« Reply #16879 on: March 20, 2008, 03:05:21 am »
From the Screenplay:

Jack's mother has just invited Ennis to go up to Jack's room which she kept like it was when he was a boy.

...ENNIS sees the closet. Gets up, walks over to it.

A shallow cavity with a wooden rod braced across it, a faded cretonne curtain on a string half-open, closing the closet off from the rest of the room. ....
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