Open on: the only countryside, early in the morning. It is still a modest shot when a soft guitar melody starts to build. If it is your first time to look, you don’t know how quickly Gustavo Santaolalla’s simplistic moving score will be one of the things that will quietly surprise you when a brokeback mountain progresses. Director Ang Lee gives the enormous space room to breathe, so that the wide open airs and whimsical mountain tops are put on characters. We are immediately immersed in the freedom that the West promises, but it is also shown that that freedom is limited if you are not what society expects you are.
The adaptation of the short story of Annie Proulx heat in the Cinemas for the first time in December 2005, but Focus Features runs this weekend in America to celebrate his 20th birthday (although you can also watch it at home on Prime Video in the United Kingdom and us). Even those years later, the seriousness of this film remains in -depth.
We are thrown in the unexpected romance between two shepherds (yes, no cowboys at all) on a summer on Brokeback Mountain. Part of what this film does work was Jake Gyllenhaal’s (Jack Twist) and the dedication of the late Heath Ledger (Ennis del Mar) to their role – especially, ledger, given the stoicism and preference of Ennis to convey emotions by actions instead of words. Gyllenhaal brings Vivacity to Jack, a clear definition between these two men and how they occur to the world.
It is clear that Brokeback is their own kind of paradise. In addition, they can do what they want without being ashamed. While he lets himself fall in love, we start to see a more tender side to Ennis. It is clear that he wants it to take place, and perhaps in a different timeline it did that. That kind of complicated “what as” possibility is part of what makes this film so attractive to the public, even if the years pass.
It is difficult to play down the impact that Brokeback Mountain not only had to the audience, but on the cinema as a whole. At a time when Queer Media was still a clou, Lee took a chance for a script that had been bouncing around Hollywood for years because nobody wanted to be the ones who wanted to make the ‘gay cowboy film’. What people didn’t see then was that it was more than that. The sexuality is secondary and it is not the clou of a joke.
I was twelve when Brokeback Mountain came out. I remember that I defended it passionately if people would call it ‘the gay cowboy film’, even went so far that there is a fight with adults. I also remember that I asked my mother that if I got good grades, the semester came out on DVD she would buy it for me, and she did. To this day, I don’t think she understands what it means to me. Proulx has since become one of my inspirations.
This is one of those films that I have lost how often I have viewed it. It is terribly beautiful and quiet powerful. In the core it is about one thing: love and the different ways in which love can take shape. It also shows us that love is unpredictable and sometimes scary; It is logical, really that the slogan of the film is “Love is a power of nature”.
It is difficult to play down the impact that Brokeback Mountain not only had to the audience, but on the cinema as a whole
No matter how much this film is a romance, that romance is only a part of it. What Jack and Ennis get are drops in a bucket as the decades pass. Society forces them in marriages who are just as rough for their wives, because neither is ever really present. What they are looking forward to are those weekends together, often under the guise of fish trips. It would be easy to make those female villains in themselves, but Brokeback goes to the utmost to avoid that. Lureen (Anne Hathaway) and Alma (Michelle Williams) are quietly torn in their performances as women who are aware, or at least suspect, in the case of Lureen. Hathaway and Williams themselves deliver powerful versions, stand against their male Costars for as long.
To this day, people are still watching this film for the first time and they write to thinking about how much it has influenced them. Even now there are countless articles about it Why Brokeback Mountain is so important. It changed the cinema as a whole and opened a door for people to see that queer stories were not just punchlines. It could be said that the landscape of LGBTQ+ Cinema would not be today what it is without Brokeback clearing the way.
Ennis and Jack are simply two characters who stay with you. It was men who deserved love and who should not have hidden themselves. It is so easy to introduce you a happier life for them at that ranch that Jack had left. Just like the open skies of Wyoming, the script and the story itself give so much room for us to be immersed, even if there is no dialogue. If you know the short story, those holes are still devastating in how well they are expressed on the screen without the story.
There is a accurate way to let me cry, I have always told people: “Just say,” Jack, I swear. “
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