Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar are two ranch hands – ‘drop out country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered, rough-spoken’ – glad to have found each other’s company where none had been expected. Hard, lonely lives in unforgiving country. The cold air sweetened, banded pebbles and crumbs of soil cast sudden pencil-long shadows, and the rearing lodgepole pines below them massed in slabs of somber malachite.’īrokeback Mountain is set in the beautiful, wild landscape of Wyoming thirty years ago where cowboys lived much as they had done for generations.
The sooty bulk of the mountain paled slowly until it was the same color as the smoke from Ennis’s breakfast fire. The characters belong to me by law.‘Dawn came glassy-orange, stained from below by a gelatinous band of pale green. And they all begin the same way-I’m not gay, but . . . The implication is that because they’re men they understand much better than I how these people would have behaved.
I can’t tell you how many of these things have been sent to me as though they’re expecting me to say, Oh great, if only I’d had the sense to write it that way. It’s about homophobia it’s about a social situation it’s about a place and a particular mindset and morality. They can’t understand that the story isn’t about Jack and Ennis. So they rewrite the story, including all kinds of boyfriends and new lovers and so forth after Jack is killed. They can’t bear the way it ends-they just can’t stand it. And one of the reasons we keep the gates locked here is that a lot of men have decided that the story should have had a happy ending. I think it’s important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience, but unfortunately the audience that “Brokeback” reached most strongly have powerful fantasy lives. So many people have completely misunderstood the story.
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