Brokeback Mountain Movie Analysis
The 2005 movie Brokeback Mountain, directed by Ang Lee, is a screen adaptation of Annie Proulx’s short story of the same name. The movie is about the two American cowboys, Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar, work as two shepherds for a rancher, Joe Aguirre, in Wyoming. They fall in love with each other. Although Ennis gets married to a sweet girl, Alma, and Jack marries a beautiful tipster, Lureen, the two men keep up their illicit love affair for more than 20 years. After reading the story and watching the movie, people can recognize some certain scenes in the film, which are expressed differently in the book: the characters’ personalities, the ways the filmmaker uses cinematic languages and the Western symbolizes to express the two men’s struggling
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The differences from Proulx's story are some scenes that describe Jack and Ennis as two real men. Reading the book first, people can easily recognize that Proulx focuses on the growth of Ennis and Jack's relationship and the events between them both, not individual as what the movie does. First, Ennis’ relationship with a girlfriend, Cassie, after he divorces his first wife is further developed in the movie than the original story. For example, in the film, Lee develops Ennis’s life following the divorce by introducing Cassie. At first, Ennis is unwilling, but finally, after flirting and dancing, he dates her. Cassie meets Ennis's daughter. And the relationship ends when they stop communicating with her and Cassie dates a different man. Second, the viewer also sees Jack challenge his father-in-law at a Thanksgiving party. For example, in a depiction of a family scene in which his son does not listen to his wife and his father-in-law agrees with that, he shows his support to his wife’s wishes. He does the opposite things to his father-in-law and helps his wife discipline his son. Thus, the filmmaker focuses on some details into their personal relationships to show how they cover their homosexuality and that makes them more real and closer to the real
The differences from Proulx's story are some scenes that describe Jack and Ennis as two real men. Reading the book first, people can easily recognize that Proulx focuses on the growth of Ennis and Jack's relationship and the events between them both, not individual as what the movie does. First, Ennis’ relationship with a girlfriend, Cassie, after he divorces his first wife is further developed in the movie than the original story. For example, in the film, Lee develops Ennis’s life following the divorce by introducing Cassie. At first, Ennis is unwilling, but finally, after flirting and dancing, he dates her. Cassie meets Ennis's daughter. And the relationship ends when they stop communicating with her and Cassie dates a different man. Second, the viewer also sees Jack challenge his father-in-law at a Thanksgiving party. For example, in a depiction of a family scene in which his son does not listen to his wife and his father-in-law agrees with that, he shows his support to his wife’s wishes. He does the opposite things to his father-in-law and helps his wife discipline his son. Thus, the filmmaker focuses on some details into their personal relationships to show how they cover their homosexuality and that makes them more real and closer to the real