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

[memento]

Ennis was initially taken aback when Jack took his hand and placed it on his crotch.

=aside= Toast
That's a beautiful picture.

[Fran]

"Ang Lee uses detail to make the story authentic, to help us know things without knowing we know them:  he alerts us to the inevitable ending from the beginning.  His film is fulfilling as a work of art; it unfolds organically, ends where it's meant to end.  We come away saddened but satisfied."

-- Andrew Hudson, White Crane Journal [link]

[Toast]

 Again the visuals (of Brokeback Mountain) are overwhelming in their attitude: family life, home life, breeder life as a gestalt of impoverishment and stark, comfortless angularity.     

[memento]

Brokeback was the winner of three Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score.

[Fran]

"Annie Proulx, the 70-year-old author of the story 'Brokeback Mountain,' confessed to being blown away by Ang Lee's film.  But the film made Ennis and Jack, the two ranch hands who fall in love, return to the forefront of her consciousness, a fact that doesn’t necessarily make her happy.

"'Put yourself in my place,' she says, 'an elderly, white, straight female, trying to write about two 19-year-old gay kids in 1963.  What kind of imaginative leap do you think was necessary?  Profound, extreme, large. To get into those guys' heads and actions took a lot of 16-hour days, and never thinking about anything else and living a zombie life.  That's what I had to do.  I really needed an xorcist to get rid of those characters.  And they roared back when I saw the film.'"

-- Softpedia News [Annie Proulx tells the story of "Brokeback Mountain"]

[Front-Ranger]

Ennis was taught to be respectful to his elders, saying "yes'm" and "no sir."

[Toast]

In his day-to-day conversations, Ennis made zoographical judgments such as the size of a coyote's balls and the startle point of a horse to describe the animals he dealt with.


 

[Toast]

Round 277 !!!!!!!

Wavin' to the girls in the stands!
He's kickin' me to high heaven!

[Fran]

Ennis "could hear Jack's mother downstairs running water, filling the kettle and setting it back on the stove, asking the old man a muffled question."  [story]

[ProwlAmongUs]

Ennis and Jack experience a four-year breach after their initial summer on Brokeback.

Def: a temporary gap in continuity : HIATUS