Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 5489083 times)

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"C" is convenience
« Reply #6640 on: August 26, 2006, 11:13:53 am »
In the screenplay, Ennis orders and picks up his postcard from Linda Higgins at the gas station / convenience store, across the street from the Quik Stop Car Wash.
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"D" is denizens
« Reply #6641 on: August 26, 2006, 11:15:20 am »
Jack’s mom and dad were denizens of Lightning Flat.   
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"E" is everybody
« Reply #6642 on: August 26, 2006, 11:18:52 am »
"Again the ranch is on the market and they've shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, 'Give 'em to the real estate shark, I'm out a here,' dropping the keys in Ennis's hand.  He might have to stay with his married daughter until he picks up another job, yet he is suffused with a sense of pleasure because Jack Twist was in his dream."  [story]
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"F" is figured
« Reply #6643 on: August 26, 2006, 11:22:18 am »
Ennis:  "Yeah, you're a real thinker, there.
     Goddam.  Jack fuckin' Twist.
     Got it all figured out, ain't ya?"

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"G" is gallop
« Reply #6644 on: August 26, 2006, 11:23:59 am »
When Ennis spotted the dead sheep, he spurred his horse into a gallop.
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"H" is hands-on
« Reply #6645 on: August 26, 2006, 11:24:35 am »
Jack took a hands-on approach to initiate sex with Ennis.

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"I" is ineffective
« Reply #6646 on: August 26, 2006, 11:33:01 am »
"Rodeo rider Jack and itinerant ranch hand Ennis are constricted not just by society’s lethal hatred but by self-destruction.  Ennis’s anxiety over a more permanent commitment to Jack is both real and imaginary.  He is a hurt animal prone to violence as an ineffective cure for his sexual desires.  It is rational self-defense, and a wholly human response, yet it will doom him to purgatory."
-- Matthew Kennedy, Bright Lights Film Journal  http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/51/brokebackmatt.htm
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"J" is jocund
« Reply #6647 on: August 26, 2006, 11:37:43 am »
Ennis had jocund evenings with his buddy; Jack danced and sang, and all was well in that place and time. 

def:  Full of or showing high-spirited merriment.

    A poet could not but be gay,
    in such a jocund company
                  - Wordsworth.      

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"K" is knock-down
« Reply #6648 on: August 26, 2006, 12:05:30 pm »
Jack accidentally gave Ennis a knock-down blow when they were getting ready to leave Brokeback.

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"L" is late
« Reply #6649 on: August 26, 2006, 12:18:07 pm »
"Jack came lagging in late one afternoon, drank his two bottles of beer cooled in a wet sack on the shady side of the tent, ate two bowls of stew, four of Ennis's stone biscuits, a can of peaches, rolled a smoke, watched the sun drop."  [story]