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Film and Literature: Media, Gender, and Identity

1. Brokeback Mountain

Credits

Director: Ang Lee

Short story: Annie Proulx

Screenplay: Larry McMurtry

Cast and Character

Heath Ledger ...  Ennis Del Mar

Jake Gyllenhaal ...  Jack Twist

Randy Quaid ...  Joe Aguirre

Valerie Planche ...  Waitress

David Trimble ...  Basque

Michelle Williams ...  Alma

Anne Hathaway ...  Lureen Newsome

The Director: Ang Lee

Source: from wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang_Lee 

Many of Ang Lee films have focused on the interactions between modernity and tradition. Some of his films have also had a light-hearted comic tone which marks a break from the tragic historical realism which characterized Taiwanese filmmaking after the end of the martial law period in 1987. Lee's films also tend to draw on deep secrets and internal torment that come to the surface, such as in the gay-themed films The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Brokeback Mountain (2005), the martial arts epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director, and the comic book adaptation Hulk (2003).

The director's cut of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon premiered on the Ivy League campus of Dartmouth College in 2000. He received the Dartmouth Film Award in 2001, along with Meryl Streep. At Dartmouth, he also taught Kai Wong filmmaking.

Lee's film Brokeback Mountain (2005) won the Golden Lion (best film) award at the Venice International Film Festival and was named 2005's best film by the Los Angeles, New York, Boston, and London film critics. It also won best picture at the 2005 Broadcast Film Critics Association, Directors Guild of America, Writers Guild of America (Adapted Screenplay), Producers Guild of America and the Independent Spirit Awards as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture — Drama, with Lee winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Brokeback also won Best Film and Best Director at the 2006 British Academy Awards (BAFTA). In January 2006, Brokeback scored a leading eight Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Director, which Lee won. He is the first Asian director to do so.

Plot Summary from IMDb

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388795/synopsis

It's the summer of 1963. Two young men first meet when they find work sheep-herding on Brokeback Mountain, a fictional picturesque setting in Wyoming. Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) is nineteen, engaged to be married in the fall, and aspires to someday running his own ranch (following in the footsteps of his parents, who died in a car crash and left young Ennis and his brother and sister alone to fend for themselves.) Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhall) is about the same age and dreams of becoming the greatest rodeo cowboy alive. Both feel essentially alone in the world.

While sharing a cowboy's backbreaking work load, facing the toil and troubles of the weather, shortages of food and wild animal attacks, their working friendship eventually develops into something more... Breaking Joe Aguirre's (Randy Quaid) rule that one man must sleep with the sheep and one at the camp, on one night after an evening of heavy boozing and shooting the bull, they end up sharing the only tent, just to avoid freezing. The bitter cold leads to their sleeping spooned. Jack, who of the two seems more wired for attraction to other men, (and more conscious of his leanings,) initiates touching. Ennis, who is engaged to be married, seems truly naive with respect to Jack's intentions as well as his own responses, yet eventually responds to Jack, releasing his own loneliness, fear and pent-up rage into an almost violent physical passion. Over the summer the two increasingly give in to their passion for one another, building a life-long bond. Both men eventually come to acknowledge and understand the irrevocability of their bond, even if they do not both entirely accept it.

When the summer ends the men separate and continue with their lives. Ennis marries Alma (Michelle Williams) and has two daughters right off. Jack, by contrast, is still drawn to other men, and remains unmarried until he meets and has a son with feisty rodeo cowgirl Lureen Newsome (Anne Hathaway.) Lureen's father owns a bona fide money-making business selling farming machinery in Texas, but Jack is never accepted by Lureen's family. Searching for acceptance, approval, and unconditional love, Jack writes to Ennis. It has been four years since they met. They arrange to meet again.

When they finally do reunite in Wyoming, Ennis and Jack are overcome with emotion and passionately kiss. Ennis makes a weak attempt to be discreet, but the kiss is seen by Alma, who becomes sickened by it. The men and Alma are all piteous. From this point on Ennis and Jack's relationship rebuilds and develops ever more deeply. Alma becomes increasingly suspicious about the men's "fishing trips" up Brokeback Mountain (more stunning scenery,) and eventually Alma and Ennis divorce, with Alma getting custody of the children.

Jack shows up in Wyoming as soon as he hears the divorce is final, hoping to now be able to live a life ranching with Ennis. Ennis is torn, as he too longs for the idyllic life Jack describes, but he explains that if they live together they will be killed for being "queer." This leads to an arrangement whereby Jack drives from Texas to Wyoming three or four times a year, each meeting leading to another emotional separation. With Ennis struggling to make ends meet and becoming briefly involved with a pretty waitress, Ennis is able to meet less frequently. Jack visits Mexico looking to satisfy his physical needs. When he taunts Ennis with this information in an effort to make him jealous, Ennis replies " I wish I could quit you."

Ennis gets a postcard he'd sent to Jack returned with "deceased" marked across it. Jack is dead. He was thirty-nine years old. When Ennis contacts Jack's wife, Lureen, she lies about Jack's death, telling Ennis he was accidentally killed by a tire iron while changing a flat, when in fact Jack was killed for being "queer,"( just as Ennis had always said they would be if they lived together.) Lureen also tells Ennis that Jack wanted his ashes spread at his favourite place, Brokeback Mountain.

Ennis goes to visit Jack's childhood home, where Jack's father insists that Jack's ashes will be placed in the family burial plot. At Jack's mother's invitation Ennis visits Jack's room and sees two shirts, his and one of Jack's, worn by the two young men in the summer of 1963, and smeared with blood from a fight they'd had right before leaving Brokeback. The shirts hang together, tenderly spooned into one another on the same hanger - symbolically united in perpetuity. Ennis takes the shirts when he leaves.

After Jack's death, Ennis moves out of town into a small trailer - alone. The place is low, bare and poorly furnished. Ennis has nothing and no one. A visit from his daughter brings happy news and a sense of hope, as she is to be married. Ennis wants only to know if her boyfriend "really" loves her. She says he does, invites Ennis to the wedding and leaves. Ennis sits, beaten down by years of hard work and alcohol - weathered and aged, heart broken. With him - his and Jack's shirts, still entwined, and a postcard with a picture of Brokeback Mountain.

Tempting as it is to look at this film as a universal example of the repression of homosexual love , anti-gay sentiment in "macho" cowboy culture, or American culture in general, this story manages to transcend the stereotyping it naturally invites. This story is personal. It is, if nothing else, a unique story about a unique love (as all loves are:) about how love is limited by our attempts to define it; about choices and imperatives; and about the ineffable and indefinable forces which drive human beings to seek out and connect with one another... as well as the very real and irrevocable consequences of satisfying that yearning.

Top Contributors: straightmen, dean_peachey, Normski3

Script by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana

Scene

Description and Quotes

1

EXT: SIGNAL, WYOMING: TRAILER: DAY: CONTINUOUS: 1963

: The door to the trailer slams shut behind them.  JACK walks down the three steps outside the trailer. ENNIS stops, stands on the lowest step of the trailer, looks around at the bleak surroundings.  JACK smiles, sticks out his hand.

Jack

JACK Twist.

ENNIS

(shakes hands) Ennis.

A beat.

JACK

Your folks just stop at Ennis?

ENNIS

(after a moment) Del Mar.

JACK

Nice to know you, Ennis del Mar.

JACK

My second year up here.  Last year one storm the lightnin' kilt 42 sheep.

(shakes his head) Thought I'd asphyxiate from the smell. Aguirre got all over my ass like I'm supposed to control the weather.

(drinks) But beats workin' for my old man. Can't please my old man, no way.  That's why I took to rodeoin'.

(proudly knocks his rodeo belt buckle) Ever rodeo?

ENNIS

(reserved)

You know...I mean, once in a I got the entry fee in my pocket.

JACK

Yeah.

You from ranch people?

ENNIS

I was.

JACK

Your folks run you off?

ENNIS (Stiff)

No.  They run themselves off.  One curve in the road in 43 miles, and they miss it.  Killed 'em both.

Bank took the ranch. Brother and sister raised me, mostly.

JACK

Shit. That's hard.

 

 

2

EXT: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, WYOMING: CAMP: NIGHT: 1963:


The campfire light flickers on JACK'S face.  Looks around the surrounding forest.  Knows ENNIS wouldn't lag...is clearly worried.  Takes a swig out of a whiskey bottle.

JACK looks up.
WE SEE ENNIS ride into camp obscured by the darkness.

JACK is more worried than angry, tries concern with indignation.


JACK

Where the hell you been?  Up with the sheep all day, I get down here, hungry as hell and all I find is beans....


Silent, ENNIS walks towards the tent, fire illuminating his face.  He sits on a log by the fire.  WE SEE the cut on his forehead, gaping now, dried blood covering the whole side of his face.

JACK is startled by the sight of blood all over ENNIS'S cheek.


JACK  (CONT'D)

what hell happened, Ennis?

ENNIS

(exhausted)

Come on a bear.

(motions to his horse)

Goddamn horse spooked, the mules took off. Scattered food everywhere.

ENNIS (CONT'D)

(beat)

Beans 'bout all we got left.

JACK hands a canteen to ENNIS, who slaps it away.

ENNIS (CONT'D)

Whiskey.

JACK picks up the whiskey bottle and hands it to ENNIS.
ENNIS grabs the bottle, takes a swig.

JACK removes the bandanna from around his neck, wads it up, takes the whiskey from ENNIS, and pours some into the bandanna.  Raises the bandanna to ENNIS'S forehead.

JACK hesitates...awkward...hands the bandanna to ENNIS.

ENNIS takes the bandanna and slowly dabs it at the cut on his own temple.  Winces.


JACK winces, too.

JACK

Well, we got to do somethin’ ‘bout this food situation. Maybe I’ll shoot one of the sheep.

ENNIS

What if Aguirre finds out? We’re supposed to guard the sheep, not eat ‘em.

JACK

What’s the matter with you? There’s a thousand of ‘em.

ENNIS

I’ll stick with beans.

JACK

Well, I won’t.

 

3

EXT: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, WYOMING: ENNIS'S CAMP: LATE EVENING: 1963:

 

ENNIS sits, supper finished, his back against a log, boot soles to the fire, two empty bean cans with spoons in them nearby, a few leftover fried potatoes.

JACK has just taken a piss, is buttoning his jeans.

ENNIS smokes.  Takes a deep swig from a whiskey bottle

JACK walks up, flicks his rodeo belt buckle with his fingers.

Sits down across from ENNIS.

A creek gurgles nearby.

ENNIS

Don’t rodeo much myself. What's the point of ridin' some piece of stock for eight seconds?

JACK

Money’s a good point.

JACK finally fixes his buckle, again sits down next to ENNIS and grabs the whiskey bottle. JACK takes a swig.

ENNIS

(laughs for the first time since they’ve met) Ture enough, if you don’t get stomped winnin’ it.

JACK

My ol’ man was a bullrider, pretty well knowed in his day, though he kept his secrets to himself. Never taught me a thing. Never once come to see me ride.

JACK reaches over for a bean can.  Begins to scrape the last beans out of the bottom.

JACK  (CONT'D)(eats)

Your brother and sister do right by you?

Throws the empty can on the fire.

ENNIS

Did the best they could after my folks was gone, considerin' they didn't leave us nothin' but $24 in a coffee can.

ENNIS'S tongue loosens suddenly.

ENNIS (CONT’D)

Got me a year a high school before the transmission went on the pickup. My sisleft, married a roughneck, moved to Casper. Me and my brother got work on a ranch up near Worland until I was nineteen. He got married last month. No room for me. That’s how come me to end up here.

Silence.

JACK looks over at ENNIS, smiles.

ENNIS (CONT'D)

…What?

JACK

Friend, that’s more words than you’ve spoke in the past two weeks.

ENNIS, smiles, for the first time.

ENNIS

Hell, it's the most I've spoke in a year.

(remembers)

My dad now, he was a fine roper.  Didn't rodeo much, though.  Thought rodeo cowboys was all fuck-ups.

JACK

The hell they are!

JACK gets up, does a pretend bull ride around the campfire, bucking and twisting.

JACK (CONT'D)

Yee-haw! Yee-haw! I'm spurrin' his guts out! Wavin' to the girls in the stands! He's kickin" to high heaven, but he can't dashboard me! No way! Yee-haw!

Finally throws himself, collapses in a heap among the saddles.

ENNIS

I think my dad was right.

Both laugh so hard, they almost cry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4

MOUNTAIN, WYOMING: CAMP: TENT: DARK, JUST BEFORE DAWN: 1963:

 

 

Both are warm inside JACK'S bedroll.

JACK is wide awake now.  ENNIS, on his back, is half-asleep. JACK, tentative, takes one of ENNIS'S big hands from outside the bedroll and guides it inside, down toward his own groin.

ENNIS, coming full awake, realizes where his hand is...jerks it away as if he’s touched fire.

ENNIS

What're you doin'?

JACK moves towards him.  Takes off his jacket, unbuckles his pants.

Then ENNIS flips JACK around.  Unbuckles his belt, shoves his pants down with one hand, uses the other to haul JACK up on all fours.

JACK doesn't resist.

ENNIS spits in the palm of his hand, puts it on himself.

They go at it in silence, except for a few sharp intakes of breath.

ENNIS shudders.

Then out, down, as both fall asleep.

 

 

 

5

EXT: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, WYOMING: CAMP: MORNING: 1963:

 

Their tent is struck, camp gear piled high: they have packed to leave.

JACK is tightening his saddle.  Looks up.

ENNIS sits up on a hill, alone.

JACK takes his lariat, heads up the hill towards ENNIS.

JACK

Time to get goin', cowboy.

JACK starts horsing around with his lariat rope, pretends he’s trying to heel ENNIS by throwing a loop at his feet—nearly trips him.

ENNIS.

Hey now, this ain’t no rodeo.

JACK retrieves his lariat, but throws anther loop—this time, he gets ENNIS by the foot, pulls ENNIS’S foot out from under him.  He falls.

JACK laughs.

ENNIS grabs the rope and yanks hard—JACK is pulled towards ENNIS and falls, and they start to wrestle. ENNIS is only half-playing—tense.

JACK is not quite fighting, either, but the mood quickly darkens, when ENNIS slips, trying to avoid a hold, and JACK accidentally knees him in the nose.  Blood pours, getting on both of them.  ENNIS jumps to his feet.  JACK immediately gets up, tries to stanch the blood coming from ENNIS'S nose with his own shirt sleeve, and ENNIS reflexively cold-cocks him hard in the jaw, causing JACK to stagger back and fall on his ass.

JACK looks up at ENNIS, rubbing his jaw, too stunned to say anything.

ENNIS looks down at him, wiping his bloody nose on his denim sleeve, furious and despairing all at once, more emotion stirring in him than he can handle.

Staggers off.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6

EXT: RIVERTON, WYOMING: OUTSIDE DEL MAR AFTERNOON: LANDING: LATE AFTERNOON: CONTINUOUS: 1967:

ENNIS has stepped out of his apartment onto a small landing at the top of the back stairs outside, closes the door behind him, as he sees JACK.

ENNIS hurries down the stairs, taking them two at a time.

Seize each other by the shoulders, hug mightily, squeezing the breath out of each other, saying sonofabitch, sonofabitch.

Then ENNIS looks around. Pulls JACK over to a small gangway. Shoves him up against the wall.

Then, as easily as the right key turns the lock tumblers, their mouths come together.

INT: DEL MAR APARTMANT: RIVERTON: LATE AFTERNOON: CONTINUOUS: 1967:

 

 

 

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