Brokeback Mountain (2005)

 

From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ang Lee comes an epic American love story, based on the short story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx and adapted for the screen by the team of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. Set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, the film tells the story of two young men - a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy - who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love.

Early one morning in Signal, Wyoming, Ennis del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) meet while lining up for employment with local rancher Joe Aguirre (Randy Quaid). The world which Ennis and Jack have been born into is at once changing rapidly and yet scarcely evolving. Both young men seem certain of their set places in the heartland - obtaining steady work, marrying and raising a family - and yet hunger for something beyond what they can articulate. When Aguirre dispatches them to work as sheepherders up on the majestic Brokeback Mountain, they gravitate towards camaraderie and then a deeper intimacy.

At summer's end, the two must come down from Brokeback and part ways. Remaining in Wyoming, Ennis weds his sweetheart Alma (Michelle Williams), with whom he will have two daughters as he ekes out a living. Jack, in Texas, catches the eye of a rodeo queen Lureen Newsome (Anne Hathaway). Their courtship and marriage result in a son, as well as jobs in her father's business.

Four years pass. One day, Alma brings Ennis a postcard from Jack, who is en route to visit Wyoming. Ennis waits expectantly for his friend, and when Jack at last arrives, in just one moment it is clear that the passage of time has only strengthened the men's attachment. In the years that follow, Ennis and Jack struggle to keep their secret bond alive. They meet up several times annually. Even when they are apart, they face the eternal questions of fidelity, commitment and trust. Ultimately, the one constant in their lives is a force of nature - love.

 

 

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Brokeback Mountain Cast - Oprah 2006

Heath Ledger - Ellen DeGeneres Show

 

 

 

 

 

 

Soundtrack

Traditional - "The Cowboy's Lament"
Ken Strange, Randy Pugh and Ron Guffnett - "Jukebox"
The Raven Shadows featuring Tim Ferguson - "Trust in Lies"
Traditional performed by Casey Smith, Darrell Croft, Lloyd Pollock, Peter Orr and Ken Hart - "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
Gustavo Santaolalla - "I Won't Let You Go"
Gustavo Santaolalla - "Angel Went Up in Flames"
Mary McBride - "No One's Gonna Love You Like Me"
The Raven Shadows - "All Night Blues"
Kevin Trainor - "I Love Doing Texas With You"
Roger Miller - "King of the Road"
Emmylou Harris - "A Love That Will Never Grow Old"
Rick Garcia - "Quizas, Quizas, Quizas"
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov performed by Philharmonica Slavonica - "Capriccio Espagnol, op. 34"
Jeff Wilson - "Mason Dixon Line"
Jeff Wilson - "Eyes of Green"
Steve Earle - "Devil's Right Hand"
Linda Ronstadt - "It's So Easy"
Teddy Thompson - "I Don't Want to Say Goodbye"
Tammy Wynette - "D-I-V-O-R-C-E"
The Allman Brothers Band - "Melissa"
Terry Gadsden and Fred Kinck-Petersen - "I'll Be Gone"
Merle Haggard - "I'm Always on a Mountain When I Fall"
Willie Nelson - "He Was a Friend of Mine"
Rufus Wainwright - "Maker Makes"