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  • Essay / Film Analysis: Brokeback Mountain - 581

    Final Project: Brokeback MountainThe film discussed in this project is Brokeback Mountain, directed by Ang Lee. This film was released in 2005. The film tells the story of two young men, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, who get a job tending sheep during the summer on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming. Ennis is engaged to Alma. They get married in the fall. Ennis wants to have his own ranch one day. Jack wants to become the greatest rodeo cowboy in the world. Ennis and Jack become friends and later start dating. At the end of the summer, both continue on their own paths. Ennis married Alma and they have two daughters. Jack has a son with a cowgirl named Lureen whose father is rich because he owns a company that sells machinery to farmers. Later, Ennis and Jack reconnect and they begin going on "fishing trips." Alma sees Ennis and Jack kissing the first time Jack returns to Wyoming and visits Ennis. She is wary of the trips and later realizes the truth about the fishing trips. Alma and Ennis divorce and Ennis can only see his daughter...