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Brokeback Mountain (2005): Ang Lee
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Brokeback Mountain is an exquisite story about two cowboys who fall in love. It is based on a short story written by Wyoming resident E. Annie Proulx, who won the Pulitzer prize for The Shipping News. First published in The New Yorker in 1997, it ... appeared in the book Close Range: Wyoming Stories. The screenplay was adapted by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, and the film was brilliantly directed by Ang Lee, director of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Sense and Sensibility. The score was created by Gustavo Santaolla (Motorcycle Diaries) and contains excerpts from Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, and Rufus Wainwright. Poetic visual images of the Western landscape iconography were created by Rodrigo Prieto.
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Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain is without a doubt a culturally significant motion picture. The same-sex romantic drama has won numerous awards, has been discussed all over the media, and has been labeled "groundbreaking" by numerous film critics. Of course, the fact that those critics’ knowledge of film history only goes as far back as Revenge of the Sith should not be held against Lee’s film. Yet, except for a few touching moments in its second half Brokeback Mountain fails to involve chiefly because the central relationship between a Wyoming ranch hand and a second-rate rodeo cowboy remains stubbornly underdeveloped.
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Brokeback Mountain is an acclaimed and controversial Academy Award-winning 2005 film that depicts a complex emotional, sexual, and romantic relationship between two men in the American West from 1963 to 1983. The film is directed by Taiwanese-American director Ang Lee from a screenplay by Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry, which they adapted from t
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The film, about two men who fall in love on Brokeback Mountain, and then find it impossible to ever recapture that moment of fleeting joy is a masterclass in filmmaking. From Lee's sensitive and unobtrusive directing through the actors' beautifully nuanced performances to the stately cinematography the film has all the hallmarks expected of great cinema.
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Professional film critics have heaped praise on Brokeback Mountain.[26] The film won four Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture-Drama, and was nominated for seven, leading all other films in the 2005 awards. It has won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival, as well as the title Best Picture from the Boston Society of Film Critics, the Dallas Fort Worth Film Critics Association, the Florida Film Critics Circle, the Las Vegas Film Critics Society, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the New York Film Critics Circle, the San Francisco Film Critics Circle, the Southeastern Film Critics Association, the Utah Film Critics Society, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (the BAFTAs).
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As one of the two quietly suffering wives in Ang Lee's acclaimed Brokeback Mountain, Hathaway exhibited an irrepressible rodeo-girl spirit broken down over the course of a sham marriage. As the co-star of the chick-lit adaptation The Devil Wears Prada in 2006, she entered the world of contemporary, high-fashion power players, suffering the slings and arrows of a deliciously evil (and Oscar-nominated) Meryl Streep.
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