Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 7855201 times)

Offline memento

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"H" is hesitant
« Reply #5730 on: August 07, 2006, 11:40:01 am »
Ennis' facial expressions include a nicely modulated series of grimaces and hesitant smiles.

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"I" is imprisoned
« Reply #5731 on: August 07, 2006, 11:49:22 am »
Brokeback Mountain has been described by People's Weekly World Newspaper as "A heartbreaking story of working-class people, men and women, trying to make a living, trying to do the right thing, imprisoned by limited options, prejudice and fear."     PWW.org
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"J" is jeering
« Reply #5732 on: August 07, 2006, 11:56:23 am »
The bikers made the mistake of jeering at Ennis when he asked them to keep it down in front of his two little girls.
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"K" is know-nothings
« Reply #5733 on: August 07, 2006, 12:01:19 pm »
The bikers were examples of know-nothings, by both definitions of an ignoramus and an anti-intellectual.
"chewing gum and duct tape"

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"L" is loss
« Reply #5734 on: August 07, 2006, 12:06:57 pm »
Brokeback is a tale of love and loss, of unrealized dreams, and of lives wasted by denying passion and accepting convention.

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"M" is mistakenly
« Reply #5735 on: August 07, 2006, 12:15:26 pm »
Jack mistakenly thought that Ennis and Alma's divorce meant that he and Ennis could finally be together.

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"N" is nod
« Reply #5736 on: August 07, 2006, 12:36:17 pm »
In the screenplay, the Malones nod when Jack asks:  "You two bound for the big party up in Childress?"
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"O" is oodles
« Reply #5737 on: August 07, 2006, 01:14:50 pm »
Jack's father-in-law had oodles of money.
« Last Edit: August 07, 2006, 01:54:15 pm by Mikaela »

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"P" is possessed
« Reply #5738 on: August 07, 2006, 01:56:56 pm »
Here's a description of Ennis from the screenplay:  "Tall, raw-boned, lanky, possessed of a muscular, supple body made for the horse and for fighting."

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"Q" is questing
« Reply #5739 on: August 07, 2006, 01:59:49 pm »
According to Annie Proulx, Jack and Ennis spent their questing days in the:
Big Horns,
Medicine Bows,
Gallatins,
Absarokas,
Granites,
Owl Creeks,
Bridger-Teton Range,
Freezeouts,
Shirleys,
Ferrises,
Rattlesnakes,
Salt River Range,
Wind Rivers,
Sierra Madres,
Gros Ventres,
Washakies,
Laramies,
Hail Strew River;
but never returning to Brokeback.