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

[ProwlAmongUs]

Jack stopped to see Aguirre (the summer after he met Ennis) looking for work, and was promptly notified Aguirre had nothing for him.

[Fran]

"To reduce the latest picture from director Ang Lee to a taxonomic designation — 'gay cowboy movie,' for instance — would grossly oversimplify a bittersweet tale that delights with its already simple presentation and vast emotional depth."

-- Nicholas Tam, The Gateway 

[southendmd]

The English version of "Quizas" is "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" and was the theme song of the British version of "Coupling".  Perhaps if Ennis had said "yes", Jack would never have gone to Mexico.

Here are the lyrics (made famous by Doris Day, God help us):


You won't admit you love me.
And so how am I ever to know?
You always tell me
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

A million times I have asked you,
And then I ask you over again.
You only answer
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

If you can't make your mind up,
We'll never get started.
And I don't wanna wind up
Being parted, broken-hearted.
So if you really love me,
Say yes.
But if you don't, dear, confess.
And please don't tell me
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps .

If you can't make your mind up,
We'll never get started.
And I don't wanna wind up
Being parted, broken-hearted.
So if you really love me,
Say yes.
But if you don't, dear, confess.
And please don't tell me
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps,
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps,
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps,
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

[Toast]

Quebec's rating for Brokeback Mountain was 13+; meaning that younger people could more easily see the film in Quebec than in the rest of Canada (14A), or in the United States(R).

[Fran]

"Years on years they worked their way through the high meadows and mountain drainages, horse-packing into the Big Horns, Medicine Bows, south end of the Gallatins, Absarokas, Granites, Owl Creeks, the Bridger-Teton Range, the Freezeouts and the Shirleys, Ferrises and the Rattlesnakes, Salt River Range, into the Wind Rivers over and again, the Sierra Madres, Gros Ventres, the Washakies, Laramies, but never returning to Brokeback."  [story]

[memento]

Ennis was much more straight-laced in his outlook on life than Jack.

[Toast]

In the movie, Ennis mounted the postcard to the closet door with one thumbtack.
In the screenplay he used more than one thumbtack to attach the postcard to the wall of the trailer room, beside the shirts.

[Fran]

"Here is a movie that takes the extramarital affairs of two men, which in this case happen to be the same affair, and portrays it as a necessary escape from an unfulfilling life that is itself inescapable."

-- Nicholas Tam, The Gateway 

[Ellemeno]

Somehow, Jack manages to make the phrase, "Pretty good with a can opener" sound like a vaunt.

1. [n] - extravagant self-praise

[Toast]

We can never know which it was that ended the life of Jack Twist:  the tire rim or the tire iron.