Brokeback Mountain断背山.pptx

张彤彤 王越颖 Brokeback Mountain Brokeback Mountain is the story of ranch hand Ennis del Mar (Ledger) and rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Gyllenhaal),two young men who meet and fall in love in 1963 on a sheepherding job on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming.The film documents their complex relationship over the next twenty years. The film opens in the summer of 1963.After sunrise,Ennis del Mar,traveling with only a brown paper bag in hand,is dropped off by a truck driver in a rural town.Waiting outside a trailer office to seek employment,he sees Jack Twist arrive,also looking for work.Ennis and Jack are hired by Joe Aguirre (Randy Quaid),a gruff rancher in Signal,Wyoming,to herd sheep on nearby Brokeback Mountain. After one night of heavy drinking,a tipsy Ennis decides to stay at the base camp and sleep fireside.During the cold early morning hours,with campfire out,audibly shivering Ennis is invited by Jack to sleep in the tent.After a while,Jack initiates intimate touching,action which,after Ennis initial confusion and resistance,results in a brief sexual encounter.They both insist the next day that they aint queer; however,over the remainder of the summer their emotional and physical relationship deepens.On the last day of their job,their frustrations over leaving each other manifest in a playful fight that turns into a scuffle.Jack clips Ennis in the nose causing him to bleed,and Ennis punches Jack in the face. After the two part ways at the end of their job, Ennis, as planned, marries his long-time fiancée Alma Beers (Williams), and they soon after have two daughters, Alma Jr. and Jenny, the family living above a laundromat in a small Wyoming town. Jack ends up in Texas, where he meets and marries rodeo princess Lureen Newsome (Hathaway), the daughter of a farm equipment magnate. The couple have a son, Bobby. Jack goes to work for Lureens father at his ranch equipment dealership. Four years later, Ennis receives a postcard from Jack saying he will be passing through the area,