History Film / BrokebackMountain

* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: Jack dies while "fixing a flat."

* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: [[spoiler:Jack]] while "fixing a flat."

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Excuse me... [[SandInMyEyes I have something in my eye]].]]

* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Jack is killed in what is said to be an accident, but Ennis suspects otherwise. Somewhat justified due to the setting and time period. A key reason Ennis keeps his feelings close to the chest is because as a child he literally saw what became of a gay man who didn't hide his orientation (and doesn't even discount the possibility his own father helped kill the man); this is why when he is told of the accident that killed Jack, he sees in his mind a similar killing as what really happened.]]

* {{Gayngst}}

* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Basically their entire cultural background demanded it as an absolute.

* LongDistanceRelationship

* ManlyGay

* NewOldWest

* StraightGay

'''''Brokeback Mountain''''' originated as a 1997 short story by Annie Proulx but became a household name by way of a faithful 2005 film adaptation.

* [[spoiler:BuryYourGays: Jack is killed in what is said to be an accident, but Ennis suspects otherwise. Somewhat justified due to the setting and time period. A key reason Ennis keeps his feelings close to the chest is because as a child he literally saw what became of a gay man who didn't hide his orientation (and doesn't even discount the possibility his own father helped kill the man); this is why when he is told of the accident that killed Jack, he sees in his mind a similar killing as what really happened.]]

* [[spoiler: DownerEnding]]: Excuse me... [[SandInMyEyes I have something in my eye]].

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler:Jack. He never cared about money and just wanted to live in a cabin with Ennis.]]

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: With regards to their relationship, Jack is closer to the idealistic side, believing that he and Ennis could have a happy life together as a couple. Ennis is more cynical, due in part to his greater awareness of societal prejudice.

* NoBisexuals: Some people are annoyed that this is referred to as they gay cowboy movie and Jack and Ennis are commonly called gay, when in fact they may well be bisexual. Bisexual activists have used this movie as an example of 'bisexual erasure'.

* IKEAErotica: The tent scene. Anyone who tries anal sex like that is in for a world of hurt.

* UnreliableVoiceover: When Lureen tells Ennis [[spoiler: how Jack died]], we see the (probably) real story, but WordOfGod says that it was left "deliberately ambiguous".

* {{Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder}}: Jack and Ennis start new families after leaving Brokeback Mountain; however, they soon return, despite only much later seperating (legally and emotionally) from their wives.

The film adaptation, directed by Creator/AngLee and starring Creator/HeathLedger and Creator/JakeGyllenhaal as Ennis and Jack, got a lot of attention before it premiered simply for the premise; soon it was widely known as "the gay cowboy movie".[[labelnote:*]]Even though they were shepherds, not cowboys[[/labelnote]] Between praise from many film critics and massive controversy thanks to MoralGuardians, the modestly-budgeted film became a profitable box-office success. Fitting many facets of the RuleAbidingRebel trope, it evoked some HypeBacklash and inspired '''many''' spoofs, but it also touched a lot of hearts. At the end of the day, the film won Oscars for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score. Arguably it was remembered even more fondly following Heath Ledger's death.

* EnforcedMethodActing: In order to get into character and really show Alma's anguish over Ennis's infidelity with Jack, MichelleWilliams asked HeathLedger, who she was dating at the time, and JakeGyllenhaal to make out behind the camera so her emotional anguish would be realistic. When they weren't passionate enough, she yelled at them.

* IfItsYouItsOkay: Possible explanation of Ennis's feelings for Jack.

The film adaptation, directed by Creator/AngLee and starring Creator/HeathLedger and Creator/JakeGyllenhaal as Ennis and Jack, got a lot of attention before it premiered simply for the premise; soon it was widely known as "the gay cowboy movie". (Even though they were shepherds, not cowboys.) Between praise from many film critics and massive controversy thanks to MoralGuardians, the modestly-budgeted film became a profitable box-office success. Fitting many facets of the RuleAbidingRebel trope (a story more conventional than it initially sounds, commentators and critics jumping all over it, etc.), it evoked some HypeBacklash and inspired '''many''' spoofs, but it also touched a lot of hearts. At the end of the day, the film won Oscars for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score. Arguably it was remembered even more fondly following Heath Ledger's death.

* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: Judging by Ennis's sexual position with Elma.

''Brokeback Mountain'' originated as a 1997 short story by Annie Proulx but became a household name by way of a faithful 2005 film adaptation.

* {{Abusive Parents}}: In the story, upon visiting Jack's parent's [[spoiler:after his death,]] and meeting his father, Ennis remembers one particularly chilling story about how his dad punished him for his inability to get the hang of using the bathroom.
"...He had been about three or four, he said, always late getting to the toilet, struggling with buttons, the seat, the height of the thing and often as not left the surroundings sprinkled down. The old man blew up about it and this one time worked into a crazy rage. “Christ, he licked the stuffin out a me, knocked me down on the bathroom floor, whipped me with his belt. I thought he was killin me. Then he says, ‘You want a know what it’s like with piss all over the place? I’ll learn you,’ and he pulls it out and lets go all over me, soaked me, then he throws a towel at me and makes me mop up the floor, take my clothes off and warsh them in the bathtub, warsh out the towel, I’m bawlin and blubberin. But while he was hosin me down I seen he had some extra material that I was missin. I seen they’d cut me different like you’d crop a ear or scorch a brand. No way to get it right with him after that.”"

* Abusive Parents: In the story, upon visiting Jack's parent's after his death, and meeting his father, Ennis remembers one particularly chilling story about how his dad punished him for his inability to get the hang of using the bathroom.
"...He had been about three or four, he said, always late getting to the toilet, struggling with buttons, the seat, the height of the thing and often as not left the surroundings sprinkled down. The old man blew up about it and this one time worked into a crazy rage. “Christ, he licked the stuffin out a me, knocked me down on the bathroom floor, whipped me with his belt. I thought he was killin me. Then he says, ‘You want a know what it’s like with piss all over the place? I’ll learn you,’ and he pulls it out and lets go all over me, soaked me, then he throws a towel at me and makes me mop up the floor, take my clothes off and warsh them in the bathtub, warsh out the towel, I’m bawlin and blubberin. But while he was hosin me down I seen he had some extra material that I was missin. I seen they’d cut me different like you’d crop a ear or scorch a brand. No way to get it right with him after that.”"<

The film adaptation, directed by Ang Lee and starring HeathLedger and Jake Gyllenhaal as Ennis and Jack, got a lot of attention before it premiered simply for the premise; soon it was widely known as "the gay cowboy movie". (Even though they were shepherds, not cowboys.) Between praise from many film critics and massive controversy thanks to MoralGuardians, the modestly-budgeted film became a profitable box-office success. Fitting many facets of the RuleAbidingRebel trope (a story more conventional than it initially sounds, commentators and critics jumping all over it, etc.), it evoked some HypeBacklash and inspired '''many''' spoofs, but it also touched a lot of hearts. At the end of the day, the film won Oscars for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score. Arguably it was remembered even more fondly following Heath Ledger's death.

** Yes, but this troper is still astounded they couldn't control themselves until they could go somewhere more private. No wonder Alma saw them.

* EverythingsWorseWithBears: As Ennis can attest.

* PlayingAgainstType: AnneHathaway as Lureen; this was one of several roles that moved her away from the ContractualPurity reputation she had at the time.

The film adaptation, directed by Ang Lee and starring HeathLedger and Jake Gyllenhaal as Ennis and Jack, got a lot of attention before it premiered simply for the premise; soon it was widely known as "the gay cowboy movie." (Even though they were shepherds, not cowboys.) Between praise from many film critics and massive controversy thanks to MoralGuardians, the modestly-budgeted film became a profitable box-office success. Fitting many facets of the RuleAbidingRebel trope (a story more conventional than it initially sounds, commentators and critics jumping all over it, etc.), it evoked some HypeBacklash and inspired '''many''' spoofs, but it also touched a lot of hearts. At the end of the day, the film won Oscars for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score. Arguably it was remembered even more fondly following Heath Ledger's death.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: The way people talk about this movie, you'd think it consists solely of Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal having sex in a tent, plus a part with Anne Hathaway topless.

* EveryoneRemembersTheStripper: The way people talk about this movie, you'd think it consists solely of Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal having sex in a tent, plus a part with Anne Hathaway topless.