He told Out that Brokeback proved to be the movie he needed to make next. My father had just passed away, and I was exhausted. Brokeback Mountain nurtured me back to filmmaking and as a person. It was meant to come out, to see the world, to affect people. I think everybody involved felt that way, like we were blessed. Following the success of the film, however, Proulx told the Los Angeles Times , that she receives an abundance of revisions and expansions of the story by fans who miss the point.
On his way home, Ennis' pickup truck is seen driving along a highway in the evening dusk, moving from left to right, in a mirror image of the opening scene. In the final scene, Ennis is living alone is a small, run-down trailer on the prairie. A year-old Alma Jr. She asks her father to give his blessing, and to attend the wedding. After asking if the young man indeed loves her he now being deeply aware of the importance of love , he is at first reluctant, saying his job won't let him attend.
Then, after seeing how disappointed Alma is, he changes his mind and agrees to go, and pours glasses of wine [7] for him and his daughter with which to celebrate. After Alma's departure, Ennis notices she has forgotten her sweater. Folding the sweater, he continues into his trailer bedroom, opening the closet door to put it away. On the inside of the door we see he has carefully hung those two shirts, still one inside the other, but now reversed his atop Jack's.
Alongside them is tacked a postcard of Brokeback Mountain. Ennis carefully fastens the top button of Jack's shirt, and with tears in his eyes mutters, "Jack, I swear As Ennis shuts the closet door, the focus of the shot is then shifted to an adjacent window, forcing our view onto sunlit fields and a dirt road in the distance. The music gets louder as the screen fades.
Template:Infobox movie certificates. While the movie is set in the Big Horn Mountains of eastern Wyoming , most of it was filmed in the Canadian Rockies in southern Alberta.
Ang Lee decided that Alberta would be an ideal place to shoot Brokeback Mountain because of its lush landscapes broadly similar to those in Wyoming, the lower production costs in Canada, and the willingness of the Alberta Film Development Corporation, an instrument of the Alberta provincial crown, to assist with funding. The "Brokeback Mountain" in the movie, named such because the mountain has the same swayback curve as a brokeback horse or mule, which is swaybacked or sagging in the spine, [8] is actually a composite of Mount Peter Lougheed south of the town of Canmore to Fortress and Moose Mountain in Kananaskis Country.
Other movie scenes were also filmed in Cowley and Fort Macleod. The movie was filmed during the summer of During filming it was reported Ledger almost broke Gyllenhaal's nose during a kissing scene, as the scene required that they pull each other close very quickly. Brokeback Mountain cost about U.
This was the highest per-showing average for any drama in film history. Over the Christmas weekend, it posted the highest per theater gross of any movie and was considered a box office success not only in urban centers such as New York City and Los Angeles , but also in suburban theaters near Portland , Chicago , Dallas , Denver , and Atlanta.
On January 6, , the movie expanded into theaters, and, on January 13, Focus Features , the movie's distributor, opened Brokeback in nearly North American cinemas as part of its ongoing expansion strategy for the movie. On January 20, the film opened in 1, theaters in North America; it opened in 1, theaters on January 27 and in 2, theaters on February 3, its widest release.
On January 11, Time Out London magazine reported that Brokeback was the number one movie in the city, a position it held for three weeks. The movie was released in France on January 18, in cinemas expanding into cinemas in the second week and into in the third week.
In its first week of release, Brokeback Mountain was in third place at the French box office, with , people viewing the movie, or an average of 1, people by cinema per week, the highest such figure for any film in France that week.
One month later, it reached more than one million viewers more than 1,, on March 18 , with still cinemas in the 10th week. Released in Italy on January 20, the film grossed more than , euros in only three days, and was the fourth highest-grossing film in the country in its first week of release. Brokeback Mountain was released in Australia on January 26, , where it landed in fourth place at the box office and earned an average per-screen gross three times higher than its nearest competitor during its first weekend despite being released in only 48 cinemas nationwide.
Most of the Australian critics praised the film. It premiered in Brazil on February 3 and quickly topped the charts with more than , viewers. The movie was released in India on March Brokeback Mountain was the highest-grossing movie in the U.
Indeed, the movie was one of the top five highest-grossing films in the U. The movie was released on January 20, in Taiwan , where director Ang Lee was born. It ran until April Professional film critics have heaped praise on Brokeback Mountain. The film received "circumspect" positive reviews from Christianity Today. He did not, however, place the film on his year end top 5 list. Most gay and lesbian cultural commentators have praised the film [ citation needed ] , although a few critics, such as David Ehrenstein , believe that the film's cultural impact is being overplayed at the expense of other groundbreaking films and the challenges that openly gay and lesbian actors still face.
A few other gay commentators have written disapprovingly about the fact that, in what has been widely hailed as a "breakthrough" film for gay cinema, neither the film's two lead actors, nor its director, nor its screenwriters are gay.
Template:Double image The film's significance is attributed to its portrayal of a same-sex relationship without any reference to the history of the gay civil rights movement. There was also disagreement among reviewers, critics, and even the cast and crew as to whether or not the two protagonists of the film were actually gay, bisexual , heterosexual, or under no sexual label at all.
Most often the film was referred to in the media as the "gay cowboy movie," but a number of reviewers wrote that Jack and Ennis were bisexual. Gyllenhaal himself took the opinion that Ennis and Jack were heterosexual men who "develop this love, this bond," also saying in a Details magazine interview: "I approached the story believing that these are actually two straight guys who fall in love.
Clarence Patton and Christopher Murray said in New York's Gay City News that Ennis and Jack's experiences were metaphors for "many men who do not identify as gay or even bisexual, but who nevertheless have sex with other men. Without Jack Twist, I don't know that he ever would have come out I think the whole point was that it was two souls that fell in love with each other. When Ledger and Gyllenhaal were asked about any fear of being cast in such controversial roles, Ledger responded that he was not afraid of the role, but rather he was concerned that he would not be mature enough as an actor to do the story justice.
Later, driving to the Twist home, he notes the abandoned ranches scattered over the plain. In the last line, another symbolic association becomes clear. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook.
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