Brokeback Mountain

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The major plot outline in both the short story and the movie

The central drama and point of conflict in any love story is the obstacle between the lovers. In the best known tragic love story in Western history, Romeo and Juliet, the obstacle is their feuding families; in the classic film Casablanca it's virtue and in Brief Encounter, it's the marriage of one of the lovers. This is a story of unfulfilled love in Wyoming. Ennis and Jack, a ranch hand and an aspiring rodeo rider, work together as sheep herders in the summer of 1963 on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming. When both drunk in one cold night, they raised their friendships to a new level of intimacy. They tried hard to hide their loves behind the social society because they wouldn’t be accepted in those conservative days. But their loves still were alive. They spent over 20 years stealing moments to affair. Brokeback Mountain becomes their dreams in their minds, which they never fulfilled in again.

Both the story and the film represent the concept of homosexuality, and the intertwined literary traditions of elegy and nostalgic discourse, which are so central to the depiction of sex love and passion. But Brokeback Mountain, film is much more complicated, as many other characters attempt to manipulate Ennis and Jack along their way. It involves a detailed subplot about Ennis relationship with Alma and Jack relationship with Lureen, and how she involves him with life. It is important to note that, while the film has the same premise as the story, the story focuses on men who have loved another man and lost him. Nostalgia and longing is hidden under the unaffected style of short story and film. That is why the works make such a strong impact on the Audince.

Foreshadowing

Heavy with foreshadowing, the film's climax is even more poignant because it's been set up time and time again throughout the script. From the moment Joe Aguirre warns the men to obey his rules and sleep with the sheep, we know that by ignoring his warning things will go wrong. Ennis communicates his fear of repeating his parents' mistake and driving off the curve in the road. His stumbling upon a bear in the woods spells the first signs of approaching danger. A second warning from nature comes in the form of the disembowelled sheep, lost to a predator, when Ennis and Jack break Aguirre's rules and spend a night away from the sheep.

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