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Conventions Of Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain is a western genre story and film that expresses a relationship between two male characters. Within this short story the reader sees the development of this relationship, while the movie is able to express emotions through expressions. The short story differs from the film in many ways, especially through emotions and relationships. There are significant changes between the short story and the movie that are shown through emotion and relationships that refer back to the idea of the western genre. The Western seems to be a flexible genre because it incorporates romance, action and also comedy. Western is a genre that is seen throughout stories, films, and even televisions shows. An important part of this genre is the atmosphere, …show more content…
Within untamed frontiers, this genre often includes a conflict between the good guys and the bad guys. Many times, good guys are distinguished by their white hats, and the bad guys by their black or darker colored hats. Western genre also includes cowboys. These cowboys are usually seen wearing their hats, boots, denim and jeans. Both the story and film of Brokeback Mountain have introduced many of these ideas throughout their story making it a Western genre. In the short story, “Brokeback Mountain” by Annie Proulx, Ennis and Jack share a deep friendship together. This friendship was developed more throughout the short story, rather than the film. In the beginning of the story, Proulx focused more on the times that were shared between these two men, while the film Brokeback Mountain, seemed to rush through this. Earlier in the short story, when Jack and Ennis leave each other for the first time after since Brokeback Mountain, Ennis felt sick. Proulx described the way Ennis felt by saying, “He stopped at the side of the road and, in the whirling new snow, tried to puke but nothing came up. He felt about as bad as he ever had and it took a long time for the feeling to wear off” (Proulx 8). The movie however, was able to show how emotional Ennis was after this departure. Then as the story
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