『壹』 關於《斷背山》電影的翻譯問題。
Whatever how blazing the love is, the final eyewitness is only that Breakback Mountain of spectacularity and green.
『貳』 關於電影《斷背山》的資料。
眼前一亮
林奕華專欄
第六十三屆金球獎揭曉翌日,我到沙田一家中學給二百個中四學生講課,該校老師給我的范圍是「文化視野」,我便給他們帶去一座《斷背山》。當我問眼前這群約十五六歲的學生「是誰奪得金球獎最佳影片和導演」,一呼百諾傳來「李安」和「《斷背山》」。但李安是誰?《斷背山》是什麼?你對這出電影有興趣嗎?議論紛紛之中,我面前有個戴眼鏡的男生呶著嘴搖著頭:「沒興趣!」 ——因為說的是男同性戀。
我不是徒手帶同學們游《斷背山》。在一份參考資料里,詳列了李安導演生涯簡介和關於他的著作;《斷背山》原著安妮·普露的介紹;英文詞彙EPIC的解釋;原著小說選段;小說背景懷俄明州的圖文介紹,包括名勝黃石公園;有關懷俄明州地理環境和美國牛仔神話的千絲萬縷;以及在《斷背山》出版後一年,發生在懷俄明州的一件真人真事:一名懷俄明大學的同性戀學生馬修·雪帕在拉阿密(Laramie)被仇恨同性戀的凶徒綁在鐵絲網上毒打,之後幾天幾夜因沒人經過理會才死去。震動全美國的這宗事件,後來先後被搬上舞台和電視,命名《拉阿密計劃》(港譯:《少年同志殺人事件》)。舞台版本更經常在美國各中學巡迴演出,如台灣同志作家紀大偉說的:「化解仇恨,就要趁早」。所以,在參考資料里,我也把紀大偉寫的「什麼是sex,gender,與sexuality」放進去——同學們如能掌握上述資料,到了《斷背山》正式上映,他們便可以從不同角度看到更多相關議題,屆時,《斷背山》肯定不只是關於男同性戀,甚至不止於是可以發生在任何兩個人之間的「愛情故事」。
每當有人問我《斷背山》好不好看,我都會說我是先看原著,再看電影,因此,我會建議他不如看了電影再讀小說。這不是說電影沒有原著好,而是「情到濃時情轉薄」的心境,到底較易在紙上感動我們。電影中的兩個男主角都是高大俊朗,小說寫的,一個是「鷹鉤鼻與狹臉,肩膀前凸導致胸部稍微內凹如穴,瘦小上身搭建在犬尺形長腿上」;另一個是「滿頭鬈發,矮小身材,微笑時顯露暴牙,令人側目」。兩個版本有明顯差異,我只覺得原著借主角的外貌平凡凸顯了背景的貧瘠和身世的孤苦,致令二人的渺小身影更溶入無邊無垠的山野:「白天時,恩尼司往大山谷的另一方眺望,有時候會見到傑克,小小一點在高地草原上行走,狀若昆蟲在桌布上移動;晚上傑克待在帳篷里,將恩尼司視為夜火,是巨大黑色山影的一粒紅色火花。」
沒有對「隔離」(isolation)的不同狀況的細膩描寫,《斷背山》便不會有它的動人力量。地理的空曠和開闊造成人與人的疏離,但當兩個人在冰雹、風雪和杳無人煙的環境中找到靠背和取暖的對方,對同性戀的顧忌使他們先無法面對自己,再沒法面對彼此的關系。在他們還是小夥子時,他們對自己說「我(們)才不是同性戀」,二十年悠悠過去,傑克無法忍受分離的痛苦而對恩尼司咆吼:「二十年來,我們在一起的次數,你給我算算看。量一量你套在我身上的狗繩有多長……要是我知道怎樣戒掉你就好了。」李安讓恩尼司站在畫面中央,如一根柱子,我們要藉助鏡頭搖左搖右才看到在他身後的傑克,恍如說,無語那一位的痛苦只有更多而不會更少。
因為他比傑克更不能面對他們的愛情。電影把他的內心恐懼在銀幕上放大:小時候見過被懷疑是同性戀的人活生生被打死。電影還有一場把恩尼司對愛人的猜疑拍成事實:傑克是真的寂寞難耐而到墨西哥尋找一夕歡娛。甚至,原著中恩尼司是在傑剋死後才從傑克父母中得悉他打算在離婚後帶一個夥伴回鄉整修農庄,恩尼司因此猜到傑克可能已經移情;電影則安排一場傑克夫妻與朋友飯聚的戲:飯後通過傑克跟妻子女友的丈夫對話的曖昧性,對我們發出他們兩個將走在一起的暗示。
而不承認自己是同性戀的恩尼司也不是沒有「外遇」,只不過對象「還」是女性。所以你可以說,即便是對愛人「不忠」,恩尼司還是沒有傑克般清楚自己在做什麼,想要什麼。而這,或許便是構成「斷背山既成泡影,斷背山也是全部」的矛盾所在——只有在沒有別人視線干預的斷背山上,恩尼司才能自由地做自己。
使人感觸的是,後來不管在什麼人眼裡,恩尼司卻是最「自由」的:離婚後沒有家庭,沒有負擔,連住的都是貨櫃屋,又隨時准備上路。然而我懷疑像他這般的孑然一身,有多少是出於他對自己性向的不能面對,不願抉擇?就像從前妻子多次央求從農場搬到市區而被他拒絕,在他心中的理由是「他比較喜歡這樣,因為想離開隨時可以」。
對於承擔(commitment)的恐懼,使他終於成為了斷背山,等待幾朵白雲偶爾的來訪。我很喜歡原著以恩尼司的夢境作為故事的始和終,尤其結尾的描寫:「傑克開始現身他的夢境,是他初見傑克的模樣……他會在傷心之餘清醒,有時則心懷舊有的喜樂與釋然:枕頭有時會濕,有時候濕的是床單。」
誰是你和我的斷背山
南方都市報 林奕華
每個人的心上都有一座斷背山。
近乎「一語成讖」的這句話,是我聽過、看過最有力量的宣傳語。又或者,作為一部電影的宣傳句子,它會叫人擔心短短一行,可能比電影還要好——尤其當它是部改編文學作品的電影,需要承受雙倍壓力。
尤其當這部小說沒有長篇累牘——Annie Proulx的敘事風格被認為是散文式的,兩個男主角發生肉體關系的過程,不過花了三句句子的筆墨。然而文字精簡不代表格局狹小,《斷背山》是橫跨二十年的「愛情故事」——括弧中四個字是導演李安再三強調的「本質」,因為看過與還沒看過電影的人都有可能被「同志牛仔片」的卷標引領到類型片的區域里。畢竟,這不是一部獨立製作,卻是由大片廠發行的荷里活電影。
負責為此片做中文字幕的邁克在看過試片後的第一個反應是:「西部《半生緣》!」我沒有多問細節,或是由於這部被我期待已久的電影,我已經知道得太多了。由情節到某些場面的安排,我總害怕會與預期太過近似——原因是?都怪「沒有遺憾就不是完美的愛情」這種觀念早在我們心上扎了根,才會教人老在別人的故事世界裡尋找、辨認自己一路走來的足印。
一定有人會問:為什麼這本只有數十頁,創作於1997年的小說里,竟有這些我(們)的影子呢?例如木訥寡言的情人/丈夫、不知道丈夫最愛是誰的妻子、共同組織了家庭卻埋葬了慾望的怨偶、以及「在每個人心上都有一座斷背山」,是不是都太似曾相識,太太耳熟能詳了?以前的人會把看了上文已知下理的橋段歸類「粵語長片」,今天形容老套,已改用「韓劇」。我不排除有人會把《斷背山》有「陳腔濫調」之嫌的責任歸咎在李安頭上——也只有中國導演懂得把說了上千百次的故事再說一遍,仍能催人淚下,因為中國人有「民間傳奇」。
就這一點,我反而深深同意女主角之一(飾演Heath Ledger妻子)的Michelle Williams在製作特輯所說的「每句陳腔濫調之下必埋藏著某種真相」——當然,你可以說連這句話也是cliché,但cliché之所以成為cliché,豈不正是因為它有永恆的、普遍的價值?
像一個人對真我的追尋。像在追尋中所遇上的荊棘。像責任和自由該如何取捨。
在《卧虎藏龍》和《綠巨人》之後,李安是藉《斷背山》回到平凡人的世界。我可以肯定在地球這一端上演時,不少觀眾會為它淌下感動的眼淚——平凡人為了生存所受的委屈、難堪,如果不能找到合適的發泄,最怕的不是崩潰,而是鬱郁而終。但《斷背山》的兩個男主角中有一個還是承繼了李安近年作品裡的「叛逆」:是他的結局,讓另一個男主角從噩耗中驚醒:妥協不就是遺憾的源頭嗎?
由《喜宴》的「為傳統(別人)而活」到《斷背山》的「該為誰而活?」在我眼中李安真是走了好長一段路。《斷背山》或許是個驛站,但真要走過李安從1992年至今天的心路歷程,《斷背山》的原著要看,他的自傳《十年一覺電影夢》更要看。在這本張靚蓓編著的書中,讀者也許不能完全辨認在他心上的斷背山是什麼,但對於觀看李安的最新作品,一定會多添角度和深度。
李安對時間的體悟一向纖細而敏感,就像孔子看著奔流不息的河水喟嘆,「逝者如斯夫,不舍晝夜」,縈繞在李安心頭的悵然若失,從古老的文化中逶迤而來,在《理智與情感》中綻放,在《斷背山》中得到延續,一股纏綿悱惻的愛情暗流與一種隱而不露的性靈情思交匯其中,不經意間,我們的心扉被悄然觸動。
李安的影片都是關於倫理的,所有的視角都充滿了二元對立,《推手》中「致虛極、守靜篤」的中國父親與美國兒媳之間存在文化上不解與矛盾,延伸到《喜宴》里,中西文化隔閡在上下兩代人中得到了重新的審視,而《理智與情感》則是尋找理智與感性二元對立世界的平衡點,埃莉諾的冷靜克制和瑪麗安的熱情奔放代表著兩種情感表達和處世之道,相互對照而制衡。這種對立世界交接給《卧虎藏龍》,它變為了李慕白、俞秀蓮與玉蛟龍、羅小虎的對立,前者隱忍、剋制與理性,而後者年輕、張揚與不羈。如果說《理智與情感》、《卧虎藏龍》中的理智與感性還分處於兩類並行的人物當中,那麼《斷背山》無疑將理智與感性放置在擁有愛情的兩個人身上,愛情沾染了這兩種氣息後彌漫出恬淡而持久的氣質,藕斷絲連的愛情已經徹底摒棄了性別、形式以及倫理的束縛,兩個人的斷背山在衣櫥一隅凄美而雋永。
《斷背山》的前三十分鍾營造出一個美輪美奐的原始世界,羊群穿過溪澗、山巒,精緻的牛仔帽像是美國西部跳動的顏色,西部絢爛的流雲和遼闊寂靜的森林都給影片前半部分抹上了浪漫色彩,再配合間歇流淌的吉他和弦,感情在行雲流水間得到積累,有種默默無聲的力量。其實,渲染斷背山這自然風光的美並不只為賞心悅目,導演從西部旖旎的風光中抽象出寄棲於每個人內心深處的美,從而為而後的難割難舍做了最為美妙的鋪陳。就像李安所言,「每個人都有自己的斷背山」,那是對純凈、恣意、自由生活的眷戀和緬懷,而這種托物寄情的手法也讓兩個男人的情感跨越自然、順暢。
傑克和恩里斯愛情的產生於與世隔絕的斷背山之中,這就彷彿是讓生靈陷入一種困境,而後他們通過愛情獲得一種安頓。而這種來源於自然的困境使得人物在精神上無所依託,傑克就曾有這樣的抱怨生活的單調乏味,「黃色煤油燈也只能消磨一小段夜色」(摘自《斷背山》原著),於是兩人精神上的投靠有了某種不期而遇的意味,那些心領神會的瞬間也得以變為突如其來的愛情。而他們的相愛則有一種隱秘的匯合,它會在兩人心裡彼此溫暖,並在一種精神的取向上相依為命。在大自然的困境中,愛情成為一種不可或缺的飛翔,它的意義在斷背山之中,這也是隨後日子裡兩人依戀這塊土地的根本意義所在。
前半段的自然困境其實隱含著道德困境,恩里斯是為了暫時逃避被生活束縛而來到杳無人煙的斷背山,而傑克也想跟百無聊賴的生活作一個了斷,他們的暫時逃脫是從一種困境跳入另一種困境,或許,它是庸碌生活的解放。然而,道德困境則是兩個男人必須面臨的現實,他們之間有道難以逾越的牆,阻隔了兩人心靈的交流。《冰風暴》中也有這樣的隱喻,少男少女模仿成人擁抱接吻,鏡頭搖起,一個俯拍盡現人物與環境的關系,原來他們處於一個完全封閉的廢建築之中,壓抑而孤獨。從這個角度出發,我們發現影片後半段人物無疑於被放逐在倫理與道德的困境中,這與《推手》和《飲食男女》里中國文化遭遇西方文明的尷尬與困境如出一轍。《斷背山》中道德的捆綁同樣也主要來源於社會的價值觀,影片中社會對同性之愛的看法雖然沒有直接提及,但恩里斯幼時所見的同性戀被打致死、面目全非,一直成為他童年的夢魘。也正是恩里斯的處世態度導致了這段愛情的無疾而終。
在兩人的愛情之間,傑克一直處於主導位置,甚至可以說,他更放肆一些。影片伊始,傑克驅車來到僱主門前得岔口,他神形中流露出自由、張揚和率直,而恩里斯則安靜的站在遠處,不時偷窺傑克幾眼。而這種關系也得到了延續,是傑克第一次寄來明信片,促成四年後的再會;是傑克在恩里斯離婚後興沖沖的趕來,提出廝守終身的願望;也是傑克將兩人血跡斑斑的襯衣珍藏在壁櫥深處,惦念終身。所以說傑克更感性、更率直、也更理想主義,而恩里斯則更理智、更隱忍、也更現實主義。寧為玉碎,不為瓦全的傑克是這段凄美愛情的犧牲品,他註定是《卧虎藏龍》中的玉蛟龍,但恩里斯不會是羅小虎,他的含蓄和剋制凝而不發,積蓄在影片最後一個鏡頭,一種悲愴油然而生。
《斷背山》中,李安這個深受中國傳統文化熏陶的華人,成功演繹出美國西部風情的倫理片,是中西合璧的典範。他將一部戲劇式的故事嵌套於散文化的敘事之中,淡化戲劇沖突的外部形式,注重呈現生活的自然形態、展現人物的內心世界,一種獨特而豐富的情感逐漸充盈於影像之中,它是來自於李安對傷感體驗的敦厚把握,一個東方人特有的內斂的情緒表達:中庸有度、含而不露。同時,影片構建出時間軌跡中凄美的斷片,當它所依存的世界一去不返後,斷片或是殘骸都是對某種美好事物的追憶,於是有了結尾雙層的襯衣,以及Bob Dylan那首「He Was a Friend of Mine」,愛被小心翼翼包裹於其中,形成了有著哲學和美學意義上的美感。而這種美感的抒發卻來自於導演客觀、冷靜的旁觀者姿態,我們看到影片的敘述者成為了中性的、透明的,大幕上的呈現就是世界本身:一個男人為另一個男人守候一生,因為有愛。
『叄』 急求斷背山的英文版劇情簡介
In 1963,two young men hire on as ranch hands in the Wyoming mountains.During the long months of isolation,an unusual bond starts to develop between them, one which they are only vaguely aware of--until one night when it rises to the surface in a passionate encounter.When the season ends,they part ways,only to realize the true depth of their feelings.Thus begins a decades-long affair that the two of them desperately try to hide from those around them--one which will prove simultaneously beautiful and devastating.
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In the Summer of 1963 Wyoming, two young men, Ennis a ranch hand and Jack an aspiring rodeo bull rider, are sent to work together herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain, and what had otherwise been anticipated to be a rather uneventful venture, will soon turn into an affair of love, of lust, and complications that will spand through 19 years of their lives. Through marriage, through children, and through the mighty grip of societal confines and the expectations of what it is to be a man.
兩個版本的,可以嗎?
『肆』 誰有電影斷背山的故事簡介
斷臂山 (2005)
(Brokeback Mountain)
其他片名:
斷背山
導演:
· 李安(Ang Lee)
編劇:
· Diana Ossana
· 拉里·麥克默特里(Larry McMurtry)
· E. Annie Proulx
演員:
· 傑克·吉倫希爾(Jake Gyllenhaal)
· 海斯·雷吉(Heath Ledger)
· 米歇爾·威廉姆斯(Michelle Williams)
· 安妮·海瑟薇(Anne Hathaway)
· 蘭迪·奎德(Randy Quaid)
(更多)
該部電影已經被 99 位用戶收藏入收藏夾。
語 言: 英語(English) (更多)
播映時間: 134分鍾
類 型: 劇情(Drama) / 愛情(Romance) (更多)
分級級別: ETGO 0 級
總 點 擊: 11706
國家/地區: 美國(United States) (更多)
上映日期: 2005年09月03日
製作公司: Good Machine
發行公司: Focus Features
宣 傳 語: Love Is A Force Of Nature
官方網站: http://www.brokebackmountain.com/
收錄時間: 2006-02-25 11:11:09
影片描述
1963年的燦爛夏日,懷俄明西部,年輕的牛仔傑克·特維斯特(傑克·吉倫哈爾飾)與恩尼斯·德爾瑪(希斯·萊吉爾飾)因同為牧場主喬·阿桂爾(蘭迪·奎德飾)打工而相識,傑克比較健談,且騎術高超,恩尼斯自幼小父母雙亡,性格內向寡語。人跡罕至的斷臂山深處,高山牧場的放羊工作單調而艱苦,隨時有遭遇野獸襲擊的可能,供傑克與恩尼斯棲身的帳篷狹小得只能睡下一人,另一人不得不睡在露天篝火旁,起初二人各自放羊,少有交流。直到有一天,二人晚飯時喝多了酒,是夜又分外寒冷,於是傑克與恩尼斯同帳共裘而眠,在酒精與荷爾蒙的作用下,他們之間發生了「不該發生的事」,空虛寂寥讓讓兩個19歲的青年彼此相愛了,一個人做飯,另一個放羊,篝火邊長談,帳篷內歡愛,同性間的純美真愛伴隨二人度過了人生中最美好的一段夏日時光。
季節性放牧工作結束後,迫於世俗的壓力,傑克與恩尼斯依依不捨地踏上了各自的生活旅程,傑克憑著精湛的騎術成為了德州的競技牛仔,依靠著妻子露琳(安妮·海瑟薇 飾)家族的扶植而事業蒸蒸日上;留在牧場的恩尼斯迎娶了自幼相識的阿爾瑪(米歇爾·威廉姆斯 飾),每日為嗷嗷待哺的女兒奔忙,過著平凡清苦的日子。彈指間四年過去了,飽受相思之苦的傑克給恩尼斯寄去賀卡,說自己做生意外出時要路過懷俄明,希望能見上一面。重逢後的傑克與恩尼斯深情擁吻,時光的流失並未沖淡二人心中熾熱的情感,在隨後的十幾年中,傑克與恩尼斯都定期約會釣魚。表面上的婚姻讓阿爾瑪的內心苦楚不堪,她知道丈夫每年消失在斷臂山中與老友傑克釣魚的真正原因,而傑克與恩尼斯也經受著同性戀所招致的巨大偏見和世俗壓力。最終,廝守一生的願望因傑克的意外身亡而落空。在傑克去世後,恩尼斯來到了傑克父母的農場,想把傑克的骨灰帶回到二人初識的斷臂山。在傑克的房間里,他發現了一個秘密:初識時他們各自穿過的襯衫被整齊地套在了同一個衣掛上。這個秘密讓恩尼斯潸然淚下,他意識到傑克是多麼愛他,自己又多麼深愛傑克。但無論愛是怎樣的濃烈,最終見證它的只有那座壯美蒼郁的斷臂山。
『伍』 李安《斷背山》的故事梗概..
影片信息
·英文片名:Brokeback Mountain
·中文譯名:斷背山 又譯:斷臂山
·導 演:李安 Ang Lee
·級 別:R級(色情/裸露/暴力語言)
·片 長:134分鍾
·獲獎情況:第62屆威尼斯電影節最佳影片
·獲獎情況:63屆金球獎最佳影片/最佳導演
·獲獎情況:BAFTA最佳電影/導演/劇本/男配
·主演: 傑克·吉倫希爾 希斯·萊吉爾
·主演: 米歇爾·威廉姆斯 安妮·海瑟薇
1963年夏天的一個清晨,美國懷俄明州的西部,為同一個牧場主打工的年輕農夫傑克與牛仔恩尼斯邂逅於人跡罕至的斷背山深處的牧場。高山牧場的工作單調而艱苦,隨時有遭遇野獸襲擊的可能。每晚輪班的兩人起初各自放羊,少有交流,然而久而久之,健談的傑克和少言寡語的恩尼斯卻有了難言的默契。
一個特別寒冷的夜裡,同帳共裘而眠的兩人,在酒精與荷爾蒙的作用下,發生了「不該發生的事」。寂寞讓兩個19歲的青年彼此相愛了,在斷背山中,兩人度過了人生中最美好的夏日時光。季節性放牧結束了,迫於世俗,傑克和恩尼斯依依不捨地分離。留在牧場的恩尼斯迎娶了自幼相識的阿爾瑪,有了兩個可愛的女兒;傑克到了德州,在妻子露琳家族的扶植下事業蒸蒸日上,還有了個兒子。
彈指四年過去,飽受相思之苦的傑克終於給恩尼斯寄去賀卡,重逢後的兩人意識到心中熾熱的情感,於是在隨後的十幾年中,都定期約會釣魚。知情的阿爾瑪痛苦不堪,而傑克與恩尼斯也經受著巨大偏見和世俗壓力。最終,廝守一生的願望因傑克的意外身亡而落空,帶走傑克骨灰的恩尼斯在傑克的房間里,發現了一個秘密,他潸然淚下……
『陸』 有誰知道美國電影【斷臂山】的英文名字
Brokeback Mountain
2005年的《斷臂山》(Brokeback Mountain)是台灣著名大導演李安作品,根據美國作家安妮·普勞克絲的短篇小說改編,背景是美國懷俄明州。講述了兩個美國牛仔相愛,卻迫於社會壓力結婚生子,他們從年輕演到中年,彼此的感情牽扯長達20多年,部分娛樂媒體更直接以「西部同性戀史詩」稱呼本片。導演李安不贊成把《斷臂山》歸為同性戀電影,因為影片描寫的是愛情;廣泛意義上的愛情,不應局限於男人或女人。影片也在今年第78屆奧斯卡最佳導演、最佳改編劇本、最佳配樂三項大獎。
『柒』 有沒有電影<<斷背山>>的英文簡介
Brokeback Mountain is the story of ranch hand Ennis del Mar (Ledger) and rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Gyllenhaal), two young men who meet and fall in love in 1963 on a sheepherding job on "Brokeback Mountain" in Wyoming. The film documents their complex relationship over the next twenty years.
The film opens in the summer of 1963. After sunrise, Ennis del Mar, traveling with only a brown paper bag in hand, is dropped off by a truck driver in a rural town. Waiting outside a trailer office to seek employment, he sees Jack Twist arrive, also looking for work. Ennis and Jack are hired by Joe Aguirre (Randy Quaid), a gruff rancher in Signal, Wyoming, to herd sheep on nearby Brokeback Mountain.
Aguirre explains their ties: Both tend and herd the sheep, but at night one of the men sleeps at a base camp, preparing meals and watching over supplies, while the other sleeps in a pup tent in the pasture near the sheep to protect them from local predators, with no fire or any sign of being there the following morning, as such a set-up would violate Forestry Service regulations.
They meet only for meals at the base camp, where they graally become friends as the meals turn into long talks over whiskey. After one night of heavy drinking, a tipsy Ennis decides to stay at the base camp and sleep fireside. During the cold early morning hours, with campfire out, audibly shivering Ennis is invited by Jack to sleep in the tent. After a while, Jack initiates intimate touching, action which, after Ennis' initial confusion and resistance, results in a brief sexual encounter. They both insist the next day that they "ain't queer"; however, over the remainder of the summer their emotional and physical relationship deepens. Meanwhile, certain ominous events take place ring the season: the sheep are mixed in with another foreign herd; one sheep is disemboweled by wolves; while checking on the two men, the sheep rancher witnesses a playful wrestling game (which he later mentions); a violent thunderstorm comes quickly upon the two men; and a sudden snowfall near the end of August signals an earlier than expected end of summer. On the last day of their job, their frustrations over leaving each other manifest in a playful fight that turns into a scuffle. Jack clips Ennis in the nose causing him to bleed, and Ennis punches Jack in the face.
After the two part ways at the end of their job, Ennis, as planned, marries his long-time fiancée Alma Beers (Williams), and they soon after have two daughters, Alma Jr. and Jenny, the family living above a laundromat in a small Wyoming town. Jack ends up in Texas, where he meets and marries rodeo princess Lureen Newsome (Hathaway), the daughter of a farm equipment magnate. The couple have a son, Bobby. Jack goes to work for Lureen's father at his ranch equipment dealership.
Four years later, Ennis receives a postcard from Jack saying he will be passing through the area, and asking if Ennis wants to meet him. When Jack arrives, their passions for each other quickly rekindle, and Alma accidentally witnesses the two men passionately kissing at the stairwell. They go to a motel, where, after sex, Jack broaches the subject of creating a life together on a small ranch. Ennis, haunted by a painful childhood memory of the torture and murder of a man suspected as being gay in his hometown, fears that such an arrangement can only end in tragedy. He is also unwilling to abandon his wife and daughters. Unable to be open about their relationship, Ennis and Jack then settle for infrequent meetings on fishing trips in the mountains.
As the years pass, Ennis and Alma's marriage deteriorates. Although Ennis hadn't realized it, Alma has been aware of the real nature of his "fishing trips" with Jack, creating a strain on the couple's relationship. Prior to having sex one night, Alma insists that Ennis use protection, which leads to an argument, wherein Alma says she is the one who is supporting the family. Soon after, their marriage ends in divorce and Ennis is ordered to pay child support of $125 per month per child. He moves into a rundown house outside of town. Jack, upon hearing the news of the divorce, drives to Wyoming in hopes that they can live together at last, but Ennis refuses to move away from his children and is still fearful of possible repercussions if they live together. Jack, heartbroken and frustrated, seeks out a male prostitute in Mexico.
On another camping trip in the mountains in 1983 the two men talk about their lives since they last met: Ennis has been dating a waitress named Cassie Cartwright (Linda Cardellini), while Jack says he's been seeing the wife of a ranch foreman (however, we were shown in an earlier scene that Jack was actually involved with the foreman himself). The emotional climax between the two men takes place as they pack up their gear, when Ennis tells Jack that because of his job he has to cancel their next planned outing. Jack's frustration of seeing so little of Ennis finally erupts into an argument in which he accuses Ennis of keeping him "on a short leash". In return, Ennis blames Jack for "making me the way I am" and for being the cause of his conflicted feelings. Ennis then laments that these emotions have trapped him and ruined his life and begins to cry. When Jack attempts to hold him, there is a brief struggle as Ennis tries to push Jack away, but they end up locked in an embrace. The two men again part, still upset and conflicted about their situation.
Months later, a postcard Ennis sent to Jack about their upcoming meeting in November is returned to Ennis in the mail stamped "Deceased". In a strained telephone conversation, Jack's wife Lureen tells a stunned Ennis that Jack died in an accident while changing a tire that exploded. Her explanation of the injuries that were inflicted, however, is overlaid with images of Jack being beaten to death by a gang of homophobic men; it is possible to interpret this as either Ennis's fear of what actually happened (inspired by his experience of the homophobic murder in his childhood) or a portrayal of what Lureen knows to be Jack's real fate, the account she relates to Ennis being a well-rehearsed, sanitized version of her husband's demise. Lureen tells Ennis that Jack had wished to have his ashes scattered on Brokeback Mountain, but she didn't know where that was. She tells Ennis that half of Jack's ashes were interred in Texas and that she sent the other half to Jack's parents. Ennis explains to Lureen that Brokeback Mountain was where the two of them had met when they pastured sheep together one summer. She then suggests that Ennis contact Jack's parents about carrying out Jack's wishes.
Ennis travels to see Jack's mother and father in Lightning Flat, where he offers to take Jack's ashes to Brokeback Mountain, but Jack's father insists that they be buried in the family plot. Jack's mother is more welcoming, and she asks Ennis if he would like to see Jack's childhood bedroom before he leaves. In this room, Ennis discovers what had happened to his old blood-stained shirt that he had left on Brokeback Mountain in 1963. Jack had kept it on a hanger underneath his own blue shirt, hidden in a narrow space to the side of his open closet. Ennis holds the shirts up to his face breathing in the scent and silently weeps. Jack's mother allows Ennis to take the shirts and invites him to return any time he wishes to.
In the final scene, Ennis is discovered sticking address numbers on the mail box of his small, run-down trailer in a trailer park on the prairie. A 19-year-old Alma Jr. drives up in her fiancé's sports car with the news that she's engaged. She asks her father to "give his blessings" on and attend the wedding. Ennis asks her pointedly if this man really loves her since he now is finally aware of the importance of love in a relationship and marriage. At first he is reluctant to commit to attending the wedding e to a conflict with his work. Alma's evident disappointment moves him to commit to attending the upcoming wedding and celebrate Alma's engagement with two glasses of wine. His missed opportunity of seeing Jack again for what would have been the last time e to a conflict with his job was a hard lesson. After Alma's departure, Ennis notices she has forgotten her sweater. Folding the sweater, he puts it into his bedroom area closet. In opening the door the two shirts are again seen one inside the other with Ennis's shirt over Jacks, on a hanger hanging on a nail pounded into the closet door with the postcard of Brokeback Mountain alongside. Ennis carefully fastens the top button of Jack's shirt, and with tears in his eyes mutters, "Jack, I swear....", while slowly straightening the postcard.
『捌』 請問有人有《斷背山》的英文影評嗎
《斷背山》英文影評,可以參考下內容:)~~
"Brokeback Mountain",it is a gay love story, I like it.I was deeply moved by the sincere love between the two and besides,the heros are handsome,especiallly Jack who has clearn blue eyes and red sexy lips.:) The question "will that matter so much wether you love a person of the same or opposite sex with you if you love sincerely" has been asked.Personally,i really admire their love.In this complex world to find a person who you care very much is a difficult thing.
During the day Ennis looked across a great gulf and sometimes saw Jack, a small dot moving across a high meadow as an insect moves across a tablecloth; Jack, in his dark camp, saw Ennis as night fire, a red spark on the huge black mass of mountain.
In the land where horses are horses and men are cowboys... this film is creating quite a stir but I imagine it's nothing compared to the US where horses are horses and men are NOT gay, no, no sir, never, no no, the good lord would not allow it.