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Film Segmentation and Analysis: Brokeback Mountain

I chose the film, Brokeback Mountain, by Asian Director, Ang Lee. The film is based on author Annie Proulx’s Pulitzer Prize winning short story. The film won three Oscars. One for Best Director by Ang Lee, Best Screenplay and Best Musical Score. The film had few digital, computerized special effects. The costumes were simple, everyday western apparel and dialogue between the characters was sparse, yet the film was brilliant. Ang Lee took a chance at a film with a strong social stigma and masterfully portrayed characters, Jack and Ennis’s controversial love affair. Brokeback Mountain was Jack and Ennis’s safe haven, where they could enjoy their love relationship out of sight from the criticism, scrutiny and public disapproval of homosexuality in the early 1960’s. I had not seen this movie in the theatre when it came out in 2005. I watched the film by chance, as the movie plot and genre would not have been a film I would have sought to view. Ang Lee masterfully captures the beauty and scenery of the mountains and valleys in Wyoming, lends to the feeling that this their paradise. A beautiful, serene, melodic, musical motif is repeated throughout the film when Jack and Ennis share their sacred time together on the mountain. This film is a truly, heartbreaking story of two American cowboys with a strong emotional bond and how their future together never comes to fruition. The film actually brought tears to my eyes at the end. If you have not seen this film, I highly recommend watching it. …show more content…
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