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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.

 

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