Posted on 02/06/2006 5:25:52 PM PST by doug from upland
Much of Brokeback Mountain is set in Riverton, Wyoming, gateway to the Wind River Range and Gannett Peak.
However according to the IMDB, the “gay cowboy flick” was made in the Canadian Rockies near Calgary, Albert; Fort Macleod in Alberta and La Mesilla, New Mexico.
The USGS Global Names Information System shows no Brokeback Mountain although there is a Brokenback Creek/Narrows/Reservoir about 100 miles northeast of Riverton.
Annie Proulx was quoted in Planet Jackson Hole:
Brokeback is not a real place. There is, on a map I once saw, a Break Back Mountain in Wyoming which I have never seen, but the name worked on several levels and replaced half a dozen more pedestrian names I had been trying out.
However a check of the USGS database showed now Break Back Mountains in Wyoming — although there are plenty of Breakneck features in Wyoming and elsewhere.
Brokeback would seem like a good name for a mountain but I could not easily find it via Google although there is a Brokenback mountain range in Australia.
According to the USGS there are only two summits which are similarly named
Brokenback Mountain, TN (Google Map, Topozone, USGS Decriptions)
Brokenback Mountain, Virginia (Google Map, Topozone, USGS Description)
Allthough there’s a lot of broken features out there include Broken Mountain (AK), Broken Finger (CA), Broken Hill (CA/NV), Broken Rib (CA), Broken Hand(CA/CO), Broken Crater (ID), Broken Top (ID), Broken Leg (MT), Broken Bone (ND), Broken Ground (NH), Broken Back Crater (NM), Broke Off (NM).
Riverton is depicted in the movie as a dreary wide spot in the road with a delapidated one-room post office — not a “booming” college town of 10,000 with an airport with commercial service. Although it’s a big town for Ennis Del Mar (the Heath Ledger character) who moves there from a ranch with his wife so they can be around other people.
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The only thing good about the Brokeback Mountain storyline is that while these two Rump Wranglers were getting down, the poor innocent sheep breathed a sigh of relief.
Anally
Inflicted
Death
Sentence.
Bon apetit fellas.
There are certainly lots of guys walking the streets of Boston wearing cowboy hats and hold hands.
I wish I knew how to quit you.
:-)
Here's an idea.
Let's all petiton Disney studios, now that they own Pixar Animations, to get Steven Spielberg, who just sold out his SKG Dreamworks company, and flopped with his last movie Munich, to direct an animated movie called "Brokeback Mountain 2."
It's a new twist on a cowboy movie where the mountain this time it is in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan where 2 muslim pedophiles , Osama Bin Hiden and Mohammed, put the humps in camels backs.
Speilberg is always trying to help the Jewish cause, here's another chance.
Hollywierd's been complaining box office sales are down, and I'd pay to support this. LOL
They could have a special Islamic version of Sheepdip.
As in, 'broke the camels back: mountain', or what Hollyweird wants to do to this Republic.
***Is There A Real Brokeback Mountain?***
I remember the reviews of Russ Meyer's VIXEN from 1968. It seems to fit here.
"All that beautiful scenery ruined by all that pornography."
***The only thing good about the Brokeback Mountain storyline is that while these two Rump Wranglers were getting down, the poor innocent sheep breathed a sigh of relief.***
But the RAMS were nervous!
(and no, I didn't pay money to see the film. But I did see it)
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January 5th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
Yes, there is somewhere out there…every one has their own mountain–a mountain that they need to discover on their own…by the way, I have seen so much reviews about this movie and some much to think about…even in comedy [with the vloggers out there] is interesting to see it and figure this all out…i.e. www.dimsix.com (movie review)
January 6th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
There is that “Brokenback Canyon” in Wyoming, but I’m sure there’s not one “Brokeback Mountain” that one could go to. Another site that shows it is here:
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=44.17111&lon=-107.35028
There is also the image used for the postcard Ennis keeps next to the shirts - if you could figure out where that was, you could pretend it was Brokeback Mountain.
January 6th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
I’d be curious to find out what mountain that postcard is of—maybe someplace in the Rockies?
January 10th, 2006 at 11:02 am
The mountains depicted are of the Grand Tetons, located near Jackson Hole, Wy. I find it surprising that the film didn’t use the real Riverton, but such is theatrical license.
January 10th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
Broken Back Mountain is in the Big Horn Mountains between Hyattville and Tensleep. I grew up in that area and the residents are not very happy with the movie. The first thing is that these guys were hearding sheep. They are NOT cowboys; they are sheepherders. The worst thing you and do is to call a real cowboy a sheepherder. The next worst thing is to call him gay.
January 10th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
i thought this was such a beautiful movie which promotes further understanding that its not the color or who u love but that love is love and there are still people that act as if we are still living in the middle dark ages about different people, why cant people just let people be theyre not hurting anyone but the people that are insecure about people they dont even know are the ones always comitting violent acts of crime and murder grow up people
January 11th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
I, as a child , lived on a sheep ranch, in the Big Horn range, of Wyoming. I rode a horse to a log cabin school with no plumbing or electricity. There were 3 students, then 4 , when a basque boy arrived.
The ranch was 22,000 acres, with double the amount of government leased Bureau of Land Management mountain pasture. In the spring, when the ewes were lambing– we drove them up the mountain- accompanied by pack mules with supplies. Why? Because there was more water and grass on the mountain. And because we did not have access to semi trucks in the 50s. as they did in Brokeback Mountain.
The shepherds stayed upon the mountain for 3 months. Each in a territory, with highly trained dogs to care for the sheep. The people who best stood this isolatin were American Indians, and Basque. We had some people , from the county jail, who had a choice of staying in the jail, or going up the mountain with the sheep. I remember a post card from Alabama- stateing “I could now stand being alone, and hitchhiked out of there to home” going up the mountain- and finding sheep cared for by a noble dog. The only way I can understand the duel camp in Bareback Mountain is that some grass was being stolen. The heros in the movie must have been running sheep on the BLM land of the Basques– which is why the herds got mixed..Alll this is just technical–
What the movie did catch is that people are affected by the sense of isolation- and being different. Each of us needs to be loved. Ennis, and Jack Twist , both had backgrounds where they were deemed a piece of crap. They each denied this– by finding value in each other. There is a beautiful message herein —-let us find the good in each other- and embrace and support each other.
January 12th, 2006 at 2:37 am
That was a beautiful last paragraph — and as many times as I’ve seen this movie and read the story, I’ve never thought of the idea of finding value in yourself through finding value in another. It is not a “gay” movie despite the sexual and romantic nature of the characters…it’s just too well- and too universally expressed for that.
January 12th, 2006 at 9:52 am
I, for one, found this movie to be a wonderful love story. So many people are focusing on the fact that this love is between two men and missing the entire point. Or even worse, choosing not to even see it because of the societal forbidding of such love. Also, many states and theatres have censored the film. Are we going to start burning books again? People in this country need to grow up and realize that (like joyeik said above) each of us does indeed need to be loved. And many people don’t even realize that they DESERVE to be loved. I am in a wonderful and incredibly difficult relationship. Why wonderful? She is simply my soulmate. Why difficult? I have a wife and she has a husband. I know that we are meant to be together, and perhaps one day we will, but the eyes of society once again look down on this relationship, much like they do the relatioship in Brokeback Mountain. You can’t control who you love. Love is love no matter who you share it with, and to deny it lessens a large part of what could be a wonderful and amazingly fulfilling part of your life. If you haven’t seen Brokeback, I urge you to see it. If you have seen it, then I urge you to see it again.
January 12th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
this movie is it gay? because if it is they should let the movie watchers no so no one will be ofended by it.
January 12th, 2006 at 4:26 pm
Saw the movie last night. Very well done. Had a hard time leaving my seat when it was over. Now, how did Jack really die? Did he get killed because he was caught with the husband of his wife’s girl friend? Why didn’t Jack’s mother put his ashes in that brown paper bag with the shirt she gave Ennis so that he could spread Jack’s ashes? They missed a better ending than we got!
January 12th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
I love the fact that people are fired up and interacting again! We need controversy, discovery and discussion in this country. Our individual authenticity is being suffocated.We have become fat and ignorant like the sheep in Brokeback Mountain. This story launched me to read more stories of Annie Proulx. Her command and genius of literary description
is a gift to all that read. Bravo!
January 13th, 2006 at 6:23 pm
I think what Denny said is very true, we need controversy, but there is to many people out there that wont this movie playing.
The movie isnt even playing in which the story takes place, which is surprising considering the Matthew Shepard incident.
Having grown in Laramie I think people need to see something new, but the people in power arent letting them.
January 14th, 2006 at 5:47 am
They should call it Arch back mountain. I dont know I wll like Cowboys anymore. Tramatized,
Lisa
January 14th, 2006 at 5:16 pm
What a closeted comment, Lisa. Watch out and stay indoors, your neighbors, the mailman, the man who pumps your gas - they could all be gay!
January 15th, 2006 at 11:48 pm
I grew up in Worland, Wyo and went to school in Riverton, Wyo. The moment I saw the mountains I knew it was not shot in the Big Horns. Riverton, Wyoming is much bigger (and not a slum) like it was depicted in the movie. Also…camping in the summer (even in July) means lots of long johns and down sleeping bags…one couldn’t get naked that fast. One never swims in a lake in the Big Horns (ever) ….way too cold. Too bad the movie didn’t show the joys of fishing in the Big Horns. I knew lots of ranchers in the Big Horns…in the early 70’s. Sheepherders were toothless, smelly, and old. Like in the movie….sorta ….sheepherders were of Basque descent. Also..for 1,000 sheep…takes more than one dog and two herders! But loved the story…just not done in Wyoming!
January 16th, 2006 at 12:02 am
Maybe there will no breakback mountain,but there will be a real mountains in the two cowboys.No one can deny the reality the love they were worshiping.No matter how long the time goes.
January 16th, 2006 at 1:00 am
Echo’s of my own “Brokeback Mountain”….
January 16th, 2006 at 6:45 am
America really is a fantastic country. You get filmmaking like this that makes you think but leaves you with a bittersweet taste in your mouth long after it’s gone. Lisa’s comments are that of many people who have seen it, they’re left traumatized. People are traumatized by the love although forbidden it was all they got. People are a lot less traumatized by hate crimes, like Matthew S who was left for dead like a scarecrow in Laramie. I am writing from Brazil to thank America for its art that sometimes leave us in complete awe. and as for you Lisa, i hope you look well into your traumas.
PS Jane reply if you found out how Jack really die and why ?
January 16th, 2006 at 11:43 am
Those who wonder about how Jack died should read the story. It was first published in The New Yorker in 1997 and is included in Proulx’s collection Close Range: Wyoming Stories.
It is a beautiful piece of work, and the movie is very faithful to the text. In the text, Lureen tells Ennis in “a level voice” the bit about changing the tire, but Ennis thinks “they got him with the tire iron.” Later, when Ennis visits Jack’s parents, and the father tells the part about Jack talking about a different man (besides Ennis) to live with on the homestead after he leaves his wife. “So now he [Ennis] knew it had been the tire iron.” The movie scene with the Jack and Lurleen and the other couple where the man suggests that he and Jack go fishing or camping together is not in the story.
The URL I gave is to my travel blog. I visited Wyoming in June 2005, making a loop around the Wind River range. The Riverton portrayed in the movie is certainly not the town that stands today, and according to what I’ve read it was a bigger, more properous town even in the 1960s. What you see in the movie is more like Moran or Daniel or Dubois.
Brokeback Mountain was the most beautiful movie I have seen in a long long time. It’s not a “message” movie, and seeing it will not change the minds of people who hate and fear homosexuality. Nor will it change the minds of people who don’t hat or fear homosexuals but nevertheless find homosexuality morally repugnant. It’s not supposed to. It’s a character-driven story that does what it is supposed to do — show us two people who don’t represent anything other than themselves.
January 16th, 2006 at 10:13 pm
I normally plan my day around 2 or 3 movies and Friday 13th was planned the same way. It was Brokeback first and then two others. I even bought the tickets at the same time. This movie, this story was amazing, the feelings it evoked about beauty and love and the need for acceptance that everyone must feel at some point in their life. I was spellbound. At the end I wanted it to continue… I wanted more…
I realized as I walked out of the theatre that I couldn’t see the other 2 movies that day because my mind was still on the first, I returned the other tickets.
January 17th, 2006 at 8:23 am
If you are skimming through these comments and missed Joyeik’s - go back and read it - if you have read it read it again. Bravo Joyeik!
I am disappointed that we attach the word “controversial” to a masterpiece that is truely representative of all of our lives. I believe we are setting our children up for failure when we only speak of love and make movies about love that comes from a prince or princess that will sweep us of our feet, rescue us and give us a house with a white picket fence - a narrowly defined myth that creates a lot ov controversy in my opinion.
I appluad the theaters that are showing this film. I enjoyed this movie with a sold out theater of diverse people. Thank you Asheville for showing the film.
January 17th, 2006 at 11:59 am
I have not seen this movie yet because I live in China. I am one of those who studied and worked in US and then returned. Let’s leave the topic of being controversial aside, at least you are making it, showing it, and thinking about it. It touches many thoughts, including those young people, who live in a more isolated world, spiritually.
I have been to Asheville, NC, it is a beautiful place
January 17th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
I went to see Brokeback Mountain twice. First time was to enjoy the movie, and the second time to understand it. It was one of the best movies I have ever seen in my life and I have seen plenty. Brokeback Mountain, despite what others say, is a “good” movie.
It is “good” because the story goes into the core of one’s being and makes him/her reasses his/her own stories of love, needs, angers, pains, guilts, shame and blame. It is a “good” movie because it confronts you, the audience, with 150-feet screen reality-check of your own successes and failures, joys and sorrows, misfortunes and misgivings in life. it is a “good” movie because there is a part of us in every scene in Ennis’ and Jack’s life, even minute and remote they may be. It was simply a “good” movie because it reminded me how sometimes life can be good when one is loved and accepted. And how life can be bad when those needs are denied.
Brokeback Mountain is not a tragic love story. It is a love story “period”. Tragedy happens when one fails to love and be loved, and when the audience leaves the theatre unmoved and untouched by the misfortune of love.
Brokeback Mountain is my, yours, someone else’s story. Somebody out there, reading this, browsing the book, watching the movie or listening to the soundtrack is reliving their own stories where they were broken, and perhaps where they too have died internally. Jack and Ennnis redemption and future together will not be realized in that movie or any sequel to come. But it can be if those who were moved and touched by their story will give themselves a chance to love truly, trust honestly and dream every possibility. Jack and Ennnis didn’t had the chance, perhaps in our own mountains, we will.
January 18th, 2006 at 12:37 pm
the sequal to the movie will probally unrequited love between a man and his ewe. from the comments ive seen on this site most are half way there.
January 19th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
I still have a lump in my throat from yesterday when I
saw Brokeback Mountain. Wastofmoney’s comment proves there is still
much bigotry in this country that causes the tragedy depicted in the
movie. God, why can’t the human race let people live the way they are created? This movie is the best I have ever seen that addresses such
injustices. The performances were flawless!
January 20th, 2006 at 9:19 am
The ideas and sensiblities this film conveyed could have been expressed between two charecters of a different race, religion or class. Anywhere a society supresses authentic human response to real human feelings. That was the real message of this film. I hope those who are stuck on thinking this was a “gay” love story will on day be able to see past their on nose.
January 21st, 2006 at 3:29 pm
I loved the movie and I too wonder how Jack died. I am 77 years of age and am not offended by the movie it is just a beautiful love story. Do not want my name published.
January 22nd, 2006 at 4:39 pm
I saw this movie on Friday 1/20 (the first day of its showing in my town). Today is Sunday and I haven’t been able to get it out of my mind all weekend. It is such a beautiful, tragic love story. I fell in love with both characters, Ennis and Jack. I went to the movie by myself because I knew I wouldn’t be able to get my husband to go with me. My teenage son found out I was going and had a fit. They have been teasing me all weekend. I wish people would stop calling this a gay cowboy movie - it is a love story. Love can be complicated.
I hope Heath Ledger gets an Academy Award for his performance. I will be seeing the movie again this week (and again, and again). I cannot remember a movie or story that has affected me so much.
January 22nd, 2006 at 7:21 pm
I saw Brokeback Mountain tonight with my partner. Was totally blown away by the acting and the intensity of the acting. Still, a few hours later, its still in my mind. I hope this film get loads of Academy Awards and is promoted all over the world.
It is a story that everyone should see. Love between 2 men is possible and it is great the men are not sterotyped as frivilous gay/bi men. People will be surprised if they knew what their brothers, fathers, husbands have got up to and do get up to…..its only love though. Love is nothing to be frightened of.
January 22nd, 2006 at 8:39 pm
I stumbled upon this blog and I must say, it’s pretty cool. I think blogs like this are everything and more that was intended by the blogosphere’s original creators.
On the subject of Brokeback Mountain: I’ve seen this movie twice - once in San Francisco, and the other time in the California Central Valley. Both times I saw it, though the crowd demographic was completely different, their reaction was basically the same. I think this movie has touched almost everyone I know who has seen it; some people get angry, some get very sad.
That’s the cool thing about movies; they can really affect you in a big way.
But beyond the story of the movie, I was drawn to the scenery of it. The landscape, the mountains, the creeks and rivers, the long empty valleys: I think they were almost as powerful as the story.
Definitely there are many levels to this movie. I just hope the Land doesn’t get forgotten in the intense sadness of Ennis and Jack’s unrequited love.
January 22nd, 2006 at 9:01 pm
I saw the movie on Saturday night and was filled with awe. I had read the short story in advance, so I knew about the scene near the end with the shirts. But actually seeing the two shirts hung together, Jack’s on the outside cradling Ennis’ on the inside, was so intensely powerful. And then the scene at the very end (that is not in the original story) where Ennis opens his closet door and there are the shirts, hanging on the door, only this time Ennis’ shirt is on the outside cradling Jack’s on the inside, filled me with an undescribable feeling of tenderness. For all the roughness of these two characters and the story/movie as a whole, the aspect that emerges above it all is the tenderness these two men feel for one another.
January 23rd, 2006 at 12:34 pm
Brokeback Mountain finally came to my town this weekend, and I’m glad I went to see it. I thought it would be a movie about two straight men who unexpectedly discover a certain affection for each other — but I was wrong! It really is a classic love story: two people, forbidden by their culture to be together, and the lives that are affected along the way. Romeo and Juliet had a very similar problem but with more tragic consequences. It’s a beautifully-told tale, and it’s OK if each person brings away something different from the experience.
January 23rd, 2006 at 5:10 pm
That was why Matthew Shepard got killed in Wyoming. All these people live there who don’t accept the reality.
January 24th, 2006 at 10:55 am
unrequited love???. I maybe didn’t ‘get’ what the other person meant by that . I did re-read comments by joyeik and I agree 100%.
I think this film is also about choices we make when we are young.
It’s sad to live with the saddness and lonliness related to the road we chose in our younger days . Sometimes we question them a, othertimes we just accept them . When we are young , gay or straight, we don’t want our lives to end up full of regrets . But the way I rember it is that we were in situations where we asked ourselves if we should we go for it and experience love regarless of the obstacles .
The kicker is that we truly don’t know how long and deep our choices may haunt us . This had to be portrayed as a gay relationship because their choice was : 1. no choice; 2. bad ; 3. bad also.
Go for it (extremely dangerous and not really a choice in the 60’s )
Be careful and hide it or,
Try to deny it .
Not the choices most of face. We all want to pursue love, life, and happiness even knowing there are no guarantees but to give it the best shot we can. Maybe the pain could have be shorter lived if they walked away at the beginning. But if Jack and Ennis could have had hope, who knows what it could have been. Should they have walked away? They had no idea how much it would consume their lives forever and the course it would take them . They were young .
January 24th, 2006 at 4:12 pm
Things You Shouldn’t Hear In A Western Movie ….
“Guns? We don’t need no stinking guns!”
“Hey, Buck, do these chaps make my ass look big?”
“Injuns! Quick, pull the wagons into an irregular dodecagon!”
“Let’s see … hardtack and pemmican … that’s three grams of
fat, seven grams of protein, and two starches.”
“Gentlemen, rather than get caught up in mindless reaction, let’s
draw upon our feminine selves for a more intuitive solution.”
“Can we postpone this duel till 12:05? I gotta use the little
boys’ room.”
“It’s like I keep tellin’ ya, Earl: men is from Tombstone, women
is from Dodge.”
“HANG HIM HIGH, BOYS!! …Okay, now a little to the left…
Oooh! Stop right there. Perfect!”
“That’s him! That’s the yella-bellied varmint who shot my
therapist!”
“Y’know, Badlands Pete… a roaring campfire, good coffee, nice
prairie breeze, just you ‘n’ me … what say we put on the
rhinestone gowns and dance a jig or two?”
“I reckon I’ll have me a half-caf double latte with a twist. IN A
DIRTY MUG!”
You ‘n’ Slim round up them strays, and I’ll tell Cookie to get
started on the gazpacho and the fondue.”
“He was a strong man, a good marshal, and I reckon he had a keen
eye for interior decoration.”
January 26th, 2006 at 11:56 am
I grew up in Wyoming and I find this movie an affront to my homeland. I am so tired of people with alternative lifestyles shoving their issues in my face. So you’re gay, who cares. Get over it and keep it to yourself. You don’t see heterosexuals yelling out their sexuality and forcing others do deal with it. Now, here is a movie that has no basis in reality and it was based in a state with ultra-conservative values. These are values that are important to Wyomingites and they are important to me. I like those values. Why does hollywood have to poke at this image? Just keep your preferences to yourself and don’t mess with other people’s homes.
January 26th, 2006 at 1:48 pm
I am a 37 year old gay guy in Australia and was just so overwhelmed by this movie. When I was 16 I fell in love with an older supposed straight 22 yr old man and when people suspected something was going on between us being a small town he ran away to another State and married an older woman and had several children. I have often wondered to this day 21 years later if he would still be married or found the love we should have shared with another man years later. I don’t think I have ever loved anyone the way I loved him and perhaps someday we will meet again.
Part of me is in love with a cowboy hopefully sometime in my future, I too will never look at cowboys the same, but in a special way. I read all the comments here and most have been positive and its true that the story is about any love that is forbidden or frowned upon in our world. I think hate crimes are evil and anyone who thinks its ok to murder someone for being different to them should be locked up for life. I know that lots of men are bi sexual and some are trapped due to their families and surroundings into living a double life and its tragic for them and their girlfriends and wifes too. Its not funny but I bet a lot of women will think differently about their husbands weekends away with the boys fishing and might even tie a note to the end of the rod. Everyone has their own ideas of how things should be but no one on this earth has the right to stop you from loving whomever you want to and thats the message, for me its a love story and a gay love story, for anyone who is not gay its a message to love whomever you want to and let nothing take that away from you. I will be seeing it again and waiting with bated breath for the DVD with lots of extras.
January 27th, 2006 at 4:08 am
this was a great love story. I have read the story and watched the movie three times, still have not had enough of it. In my opinion people, who have posted their thought in this website, are not attacking to anyone, Terry. Besides heterosexuality is not something that is drawing any attention or anything, because it is a human nature. So is homosexuality, just has been forbidden, and that makes the gay love so much challanging and tastful and paradox.
January 27th, 2006 at 8:06 am
Terry, I am from Europe and I visited the US quite a few times, either East or West Coast or the Rockies. I went to Wyoming and I really enjoyed this place. I do not think we should try and paste a clichee to Wyoming through the movie, just get it as a beautiful human being story, no matter they are gay or straight or whatever. It’s not the point. It was only about love, feelings, loneliness i.e. stuff that have an impact on every human being, but it’s not about any sexual identity promotion.
January 28th, 2006 at 4:42 pm
hello! I’m writing from barcelona, spain. I’ve seen the movie last friday and I really enjoyed ! i felt so identified with it, althought the story is based in a location so different from my city. I quit the cinema a liitle depressed, but anyway it was great.
those mobby locations are fantastic, i dont know where they must be, somewhere in alberta i’ve heard..who knows if someday I’m visitng that mountain and surprisingly i find Jak Twist there, ehhe
SALUDOS VAQUEROS !!!
January 29th, 2006 at 5:47 pm
My wife and I grew up in Riverton, Wyo during the 60’s and 70’s. We were absolutely shocked at how it was depicted in the movie. Riverton was a great little town to grow up in (where the heck did they get the “Riverton” post office) …not the desolate, poverty stricken, one stop light town (I think we had 5) shown in the movie.
We love being from Riverton. We wish Mr. Ang would have portrayed it as it was or at a minimum change the location to a fictitous/and or community (and there are many) that would have been more appropriate to what the movie was trying to represent.
January 30th, 2006 at 2:20 am
Just saw the movie……we spread my best friends ashes this weekend on his “mountain” while he left behind so many hearts behind who were filled with so much love by his presence in their life. Terry, you missed the plot….whether it was in Wyoming or Canada or Australia or Spain, the movie was located in a beautiful setting to reflect a beautiful moments in two peoples lives who had to secretly hide their love for each other in vast and secret dwellings of one mountain.
You are tired of seeing the gay lifestyle being paraded and flaunted in front of you?
why go to the movie then? Try going to the movies as a gay person and watching YOUR lifestyle being forced in front upon the screen with open love scenes adn lifestyle depicted. What movies have you been going to that you missed this that you feel that gays are the ones flaunting their lifestyles in front of you. Gays have grown up with it and supported it. Surely you don’t believe that your lifestyle is the only one that are the most interesting to watch and understand. You were fortunate enough to have the wonderful values you love so much in Wyoming and not have had to fight for your them or your self expression. Many have done exactly what you preach and kept it to themselves and as the movie demonstrated……led secrete existences that many lived in denial of and suffered dramatically from……is this really true happiness for anyone involved? This is what the movie was trying to demonstrate. You missed the plot! PS> Don’t worry….the “hills are alive” in Alberta Canada and all are welcome to partake in the beautiful scenery our country provides……straight, or gay. What happenned to “America, land of the free?”
January 30th, 2006 at 7:52 am
EJM-
What a beautiful post. I could not have said it any better. I am a straight male, but I am so embarrassed that too many of my fellow people from our “free” country here in the US still do not get it. I apologize for them. I endured a twenty year marriage to the wrong woman because I did not know how to get out of it. Now I feel 100% peace within and I believe every human being deserves to feel the same way. Thanks for your words. Peace.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:55 pm
There is in fact a “Brokenback Mountain” in the Big Horn Mountains above
Tensleep. If you look closely enough at a topo map, you’ll find a ridge, denoted by a triangle, with an elevation of 9335′. This ridge is called Brokenback. See for yourself http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=13&n=4896678&e=319171&size=s&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25
January 31st, 2006 at 8:58 pm
ACCORDING TO THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE,ANNIE BASED HER BOOK FROM VISITING THE REAL BROKENBACK MOUNTAIN IN THE BASIN OF THE BIG HORN MOUNTAINS OF WYOMING, NEAR THE TOWN OF TENSLEEP, WHERE REAL COWBOYS AND REAL MEN ARE. THE BOOK IS FICTIONAL AS SHE STATES, EVERYONE NEEDS TO CHILL, ITS JUST A MOVIE.
February 3rd, 2006 at 2:45 pm
I live in Alberta and I find it surprising the level of reaction here in my Province which is very Conservative. There still some anger over the same-sex mariage bill that passed but yet the movie theatres are sold out all the time for this Movie so by this I think we can conclude that people see this as a love story and not a “Gay cowboy” Movie. When I saw it for the first time I felt nauscous at the ending with the death of Jack that puts this into a whole different catagory of love story. Where most end in happy endings, This shows reality. I hope this gets many Oscars.