I need a summary of the movie story,I can't find a copy of this movie!I am interested because one of the answerers told me that my story is related or similar to this movie!Thanks guys!
2006-09-09 05:25:58 · 13 answers · asked by gabriel s 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
In 1963,two young men hire on as ranch hands in the Wyoming mountains.During the long months of isolation,an unusual bond starts to develop between them, one which they are only vaguely aware of--until one night when it rises to the surface in a passionate encounter.When the season ends,they part ways,only to realize the true depth of their feelings.Thus begins a decades-long affair that the two of them desperately try to hide from those around them--one which will prove simultaneously beautiful and devastating.
Summary:
Brokeback Mountain is the story of Ennis del Mar (Ledger) and Jack Twist (Gyllenhaal), two young men who meet and fall in love in 1963 on a shepherding job on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming. The film documents their complex relationship over the next twenty years.
When the two men first begin work on Brokeback Mountain, Ennis is stationed at the base camp while Jack watches after the sheep higher on the mountain. They initially meet only for meals at the base camp, where they gradually become friends. After a time they switch roles, with Jack taking over duties at base camp and Ennis tending the flock. One night, after the two share a bottle of whiskey, Ennis decides to remain at the base camp overnight instead of returning up the mountain. Ennis is at first reluctant to even sleep in the same tent as Jack, but late that night the men share a brief, intense sexual encounter. Over the remainder of the summer their sexual and emotional relationship deepens further.
After the two part ways at the end of their job, Ennis marries his long-term fiancée Alma Beers (Williams), and starts a family. Jack moves to Texas, where he meets and marries rodeo princess Lureen Newsome (Hathaway). The couple soon have a son.
Four years later, Ennis receives a postcard from Jack asking if he wants to meet when Jack passes through the area. The men reunite, and their passion immediately rekindles. Jack broaches the subject of creating a life together on a small ranch. Ennis, haunted by a childhood memory of the torture and murder of a gay couple in his hometown, fears that such an arrangement can only end in tragedy. He is also unwilling to leave his family. Unable to be open about their relationship, Ennis and Jack settle for infrequent meetings on camping trips in the mountains.
As the years pass, Ennis's marriage deteriorates. Unknown to him, the relationship was discovered by Alma who eventually divorces him and takes custody of their two daughters. Jack hopes that Ennis's divorce will allow them to live together at last, but Ennis refuses to move away from his children. Meanwhile, his oldest daughter, Alma Junior, visits Ennis on a periodic basis, and Ennis meets and dates a waitress. On another trip with Jack in the mountains, in '83, Ennis insists, to keep his job, he cannot meet with Jack again before November. Ennis and Jack's frustrations finally erupt into a bitter argument and a struggle becoming a desperate embrace. However, the two men part upset.
Months later, a postcard Ennis sent to Jack, about meeting in November, is returned in the mail, stamped "deceased". In a strained telephone conversation, Jack's wife Lureen tells Ennis that Jack died in an accident. As she explains, a brief scene of Jack being beaten to death, by three men, illustrates Ennis' fears that Jack's death was not accidental. Lureen tells Ennis that Jack wished to have his ashes scattered on Brokeback Mountain. She suggests that Ennis contact Jack's parents about this.
Ennis visits Jack's parents and offers to take Jack's ashes to Brokeback Mountain. Jack's father refuses, insisting that Jack's remains be buried in the family plot. Jack's mother is more welcoming, and allows Ennis to see Jack's boyhood bedroom. Ennis discovers in this room, two old shirts hidden in the back of the closet. The shirts, hung one inside the other on the same hanger, are the ones the two men were wearing on their last day on Brokeback Mountain in 1963.
Shortly after Ennis meets Jack's parents, his daughter visits him at his home. Now 19 years old, she's getting ready to marry a boy, and asks for her father's consent in giving her away at the wedding. Ennis seems initially reluctant, citing that he might have to work, but decides against it and pours two glasses of wine for him and his daughter with which to celebrate. Ennis asks if her fiance loves her, and she affirms that he does.
At the end of the movie, Ennis opens his own closet to reveal that he has hung the two shirts reversed, with his plaid shirt hugging Jack's blue shirt, inside the door beneath a postcard of Brokeback Mountain. Ennis carefully fastens the top button of Jack's shirt. With tears in his eyes, Ennis mutters, "Jack, I swear . . . ." , and then, he slowly, carefully straightens the postcard of Brokeback Mountain and closes the door. As the door closes on the closet, it opens a long view to the outside, through the window, to the green and yellow fields and the dirt road outside.
2006-09-09 05:28:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Two men who both work as ranch hands go out during the summer to a remote area to watch a herd of sheep. They become very good friends, but also both marry women and move away. During this time they begin to act on their romantic urges and start to act as homosexuals when they are together, but then return to their heterosexual lives when they leave Brokeback Mountain. One of the men becomes comfortable with being a homosexual and invites the other to leave his life and come live with him. The other never becomes comfortable and eventually tells him that they cannot see each other anymore. The comfortable one is then killed by a group of men because he was openly gay, which causes the remaining lover to grieve. I saw it a few months ago and this is a very basic outline, try Wikipedia "brokeback mountain" I am sure they have a much better summary.
2006-09-09 05:32:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
A love story with a twist of two men in 60's who work on ranch and see an attraction for each other. They fall in love and yes they have sex but it is done with taste. They return to there former lives only to reunite and have a relationship.
The Religious Right condemned the movie for fear it would spread more ideas of gays and AIDS. Lot of st8r's watch the movie and there were no hidden messages to change ones sexuality.
2006-09-09 12:45:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a love story of uncommon depth. It reveals the pathos common to good tragedy, shows the heights and depths that love can lead us to, and how we, as humans, can reject what would give us peace, life, and love. It is a very sad story, and unfortunately played out daily in life. Two men, taken by the surprise of the emotions they didn't know they had, are swept into a world that they have been taught to hate. One cannot move forward, the other must move in any direction, but becasue of the other, is led to an untimely death. The sad part of the story is that they both could have found peace had the one who lived considered the other's request. No one in the story wins. The story has threads that are common to so many of us...denial, passion, rejection, and overwhelming passion that cannot be denied, no matter what is done. Good luck
2006-09-09 05:31:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Since others have already explained what it's about, I thought I'd just give a little advice: be prepared for an emotional ride, and have tissues handy. Brokeback Mountain is one of those movies that I really enjoyed, but probably won't watch again any time soon just because of the way it made me sob.
2006-09-09 07:42:32 · answer #5 · answered by ChiChi 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I haven't seen it either but I think they took that story line from my life when I was younger LOL
Here's what I found on it:
In the Summer of 1963 Wyoming, two young men, Ennis a ranch hand and Jack an aspiring rodeo bull rider, are sent to work together herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain, and what had otherwise been anticipated to be a rather uneventful venture, will soon turn into an affair of love, of lust, and complications that will spand through 19 years of their lives. Through marriage, through children, and through the mighty grip of societal confines and the expectations of what it is to be a man.
2006-09-09 05:33:14 · answer #6 · answered by Super 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I love scary movies BQ: Best Scary Movie: The Omen Worst Scary Movie: Paranormal Activity
2016-03-27 04:05:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you asking us what about the movie, or are you saying you wonder if your own story is the same?
the story, as I understand, is about the long term relationship and struggles of two gay men in the wild culture of the west, in the 80- 90's and the issues they face, being buck cowboys where there is NO homosexuatity, it shows the violence and hatred they lived with.
-As we all know, homosexualtity only goes as far west as chicago, and as far south as the Bronx, ny.
there are no gay peoplpe living ANYWHERE else but the northeast corner of this country, huh??? right.
2006-09-09 05:33:54 · answer #8 · answered by tally m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
UM, my first question is where do you live. If you have a wal - mart or other store like that close by they should have it.
It is a classic love story..but to the two main characters are men.
2006-09-09 05:48:15 · answer #9 · answered by Brad B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's about the love between 2 men and noone likes it.
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2006-09-09 06:25:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well its a story about 2 cowboys who struggle with their love for each other
2006-09-09 05:30:21 · answer #11 · answered by ☺Everybody still loves Chris!♥▼© 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋