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Brokeback Mountain Comparison

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In the film Brokeback Mountain, Jake Gyllenhaal’s character Jack Twist says in the film, “Brokeback got us good, don’t it?” This story and the motion picture tells us viewers about the importance of following your heart and that true love can be forbidden according to certain circumstances. Both the film and the story have similar yet different transformations throughout the whole story on how both characters develop and also the importance of the setting of the Brokeback Mountain and how it was the place that brought the two men together always.
To start off, first what the story is about. Set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, the film tells the story of two young men, a ranch-hand Ennis Del Mar, played by the late actor Heath Ledger and a rodeo cowboy Jack Twist, where in the film is played by actor Jake Gylllenhaal, who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys, and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love. Both men were hired to work as sheepherders in the Wyoming Mountains. As both became co-workers and in the film it is seen how days go by as they work and as both men become closer, their feelings towards one another develop more …show more content…

Ennis and his wife end up having two children and Jack and his wife end up with one child. Despite both men being happily married, viewers see both characters grow more and more unhappy in their marriage. About four years after both being married to women, Ennis receives a postcard from Jack asking to meet up and “go fishing” in Brokeback Mountain. Ennis agrees to meet up with Jack. As Jack arrives to pick up Ennis from his home, both men hug and eventually kiss “privately”. The emotion that moment showed the viewers how much the men had truly missed each other. It is important also to realize the author’s work on narration in the

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