AAA review: Brokeback Mountain (2005), Romantic Same-Sex American Movie

The film is adapted from Annie Proulx's original novel. If anyone who has read the original novel, then you can find out that the adaptation of the film is successful, at least not much worse than the novel. The film perfectly inherits the essence of the novel, and the emotions and performances in the film. Even the language lens, are extremely restrained. It is hard to imagine the style of Ang Lee. According to the statement at the time, Ang Lee experienced several serious failures when he filmed the movie. He even had a bit of a disappointment, so he planned to take it seriously according to the script. As a result, there was a kind of inexplicable calm, which had to be said to be a kind of luck.

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The most popular thing about this movie "Brokeback Mountain" is that it creates an atmosphere with ubiquitous white space. It is very lonely, very beautiful and the love built on this loneliness is particularly attractive. There is a blank in the picture, and in the music. For example, the camera turns to the mountain, which is most suitable for the song called "Opening". Although this song is an opening prelude, it is still a favorite background music.

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Listening to this song, I think that Director Ang Lee said, "I like to break the sound in the mountains." This is probably the sound. The most worthy of the film is the protagonist Ennis Del Mar, "Broken Mountain", which won the award for the best screenplay of the Academy Awards. A lot of credit goes to this character rewrite. The novel originally had a peculiar rude and simple style. The two writers who adapted the screenplay tried to continue the simplicity of the original work. Ang Lee was a rather reserved and restrained person and the actor Heath Ledger was equally silent and delicate. This kind of factor was combined together.

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But in the original book, this character is actually not so complicated. Although there are not many words but still dare to express it. In the movie, the character becomes somewhat inferior and introverted. It's hard to fully understand this person, and this is an important reason why this movie is worth watching. In other words, if you don't understand this character, basically this movie is equivalent to white. Director Ang Lee once said that this character is very interesting. "The character of Ennis is actually the person with the most lines in the film, but the impression of the audience is a whispering role." Heath Ledger’s acting is too awesome.

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Movie URL: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/142-brokeback-mountain?language=en-US
Critic: AAA