"Shit!" "If you pair of deuces lookin' for work" "I suggest you get your scrawny asses in here, pronto" "Now, up on Brokeback... the Forest Service has got designated campsites... on the allotments" "Them camps can be 3 or 4 miles from where we pasture the woollies" "Bad predator loss, if there's nobody lookin' after 'em at night" "Now, what I want... is... a camp tender" "to stay at the main camp where the Forest Service says" "But the herder... he's gonna pitch a pup tent on the Q.T. with the sheep and he's gonna sleep there" "You eat your supper and breakfast at camp... but you sleep with the sheep" "A hundred percent" "No fire..." "Don't leave no sign..." "You roll up that tent every morning in case Forest Service snoops around" "Yeah?" "No" "Not on your fuckin' life!" "You got your dogs, your 30-30." "You sleep there" "Last summer I had a goddam near 25% loss." "I don't want that again" "You... fridays at noon, be down at the bridge... with a grocery list and mules... and somebody with supplies... will be there at the pick-up" "Tomorrow morning we'll truck you up to the jump off" "Jack Twist" "Ennis" "Your folks just stop at Ennis?" "Del Mar" "Nice to know you, Ennis Del Mar" "My second year up here" "Last year, one storm, the lightning killed 42 sheep" "Thought I'd asphyxiate from the smell" "Aguirre got all over my ass, like I was supposed to control the weather" "But... beats working for my old man" "Can't please my old man, no way..." "That's why I took the rodeo" "You ever rodeo?" "You know... well..." "I mean once in a while" "When I got the entry fee in my pocket" "Yeah" "Are you from ranch people?" "Yeah, I was..." "Your folks run you off?" "No, they run themselves off" "There was, uh, one curve in the road in 43 miles... and they missed it" "So, uh... the bank took the ranch and my brother and sister, they raised me mostly" "Shit!" "That's hard..." "Can I?" "Thank you" "Only thing... don't ever order soup" "Them soup boxes are hard to pack" "I don't eat soup" "Well, watch it there" "That horse has a low startle point" "Doubt there's a filly that could throw me" "Let's git, unless you wanna sit around tying' knots all day" "Oh, shit..." "Can't wait till I get my own spread and I won't have to put up with Joe Aguirre's crap no more" "I'm savin' for a place myself" "Alma and me, we're gonna get married when I come down off this mountain" "Shit..." "That stay with the sheep... no fire bullshit..." "Aguirre got no right makin' us do somethin' against the rules" "No more beans" "Damm..." "Shit!" "I don't know..." "Something wrong?" "Yeah, so what..." "Why didn't we get the powdered milk and the spuds?" "It's all we got" "Well, here's next week's" "Thought you didn't eat soup" "Yeah, well, I'm sick of beans" "Too early in the summer to be sick of beans" "Come on" "Come on..." "Come on..." "Whoa there, whoa, whoa!" "Shit!" "Whoa!" "Come back, here!" "Whoa there, whoa" "All right." "Fuck it!" "Okay, you bastard..." "Where the hell you been?" "Been up with the sheep all day" "I get down here hungry as hell... and all I find is beans" "What in the hell happened, Ennis?" "I come on a bear, is what happened..." "Goddam horse spooked and the mules took off and scattered food everywhere" "Beans is about all we got left" "Got whisky or somethin'?" "Dumb-ass mule!" "I can't believe that." "God-damn!" "Let me see" "Shit" "Well, we gotta do something about this food situation" "Maybe I'll shoot one of the sheep" "Yeah, what if Aguirre finds out, huh?" "Supposed to guard the sheep, not eat 'em" "What's the matter with you?" "There are thousands of 'em" "I'll stick with beans" "Well, I won't" "Whoo-wee!" "Yeah!" "Was getting' tired of your dumb-ass missin'" "Let's get a move on" "Don't want the Game and Fish to catch us with no elk" "Come on." "Shit!" "Yeah, I'm commutin' four hours a day..." "I come in for breakfast..." "I go back to the sheep..." "Evenin' get 'em bedded down..." "Come in for supper..." "go back to the sheep..." "Spend half the night checkin' for damn coyotes" "Aguirre got no right making me do this" "You wanna switch?" "I wouldn't mind sleeping' out there" "That ain't the point..." "Point is, we both oughta be in this camp" "Goddam pup tent smells like cat piss or worse" "I wouldn't mind bein' out there" "Well, I'm happy to switch with you, but..." "I warn you, I can't cook worth a damn" "I am pretty good with a can opener, though" "You can't be no worse than me, then" "Here you go" "You won't get much sleep, I tell you that" "Yeah." "Come on" "Shot a coyote up there" "A big son of a bitch" "Balls on him the size of apples" "Looked like he could eat himself a camel" "You want some of this hot water?" "It's all yours" "I don't rodeo much myself..." "What's the point of ridin' some piece of stock for 8 seconds?" " Money's a good point" " Uh-huh" "True enough" "If you don't get stomped winning' it, eh?" "Yeah" "Well, my old man he's a bull rider" "Thank you" "Pretty well-known in his day..." "Though he kept his secrets to himself" "Never taught me a thing..." "never once come to see me ride" "Your brother and sister do right by you?" "They did the best they could after my folks was gone" "Considerin' they didn't leave us nothin' but" "$24 and in a coffee can" "I got me a year of high school..." "That was before the transmission went on the pickup" "Then my sis left..." "Met a roughneck, moved to Casper..." "And me and my brother, we... we went and got ourselves some work on a ranch up near Worland..." "Till I was 19" "Then he got married, and uh... no more room for me" "That's how come me end up here" "What?" "Man, that's more words than you spoke in the past 2 weeks" "Hell, that's the most I've spoke in a year" "But my dad, he was a fine roper..." "Didn't rodeo much, though" "He thought rodeo cowboys was all fuck-ups" "The hell they are..." "Well..." " Yeehaw" " There you go" "I'm spurrin' his guts out!" "Wavin' to the girls in the stands!" "He's kickin' me to high heaven..." "but he don't jackboard me!" "No!" "I think my dad was right..." "Tent don't look right" "It ain't goin' nowhere..." "Let it be!" "That harmonica don't sound quite right either" "That's 'cause it got kind of flattened when that mare threw me" "Oh, yeah?" "I thought you said that mare couldn't throw you" "Uh... she got lucky" "Yeah, well, if I got lucky, that harmonica would've broke in two" "# I know I shall meet you # # on that final day #" "# Water-walking Jesus # # take me away #" "Very good" "Oh, yeah..." "My mama, she believes in the Pentecost" "Oh, yeah?" "What exactly is the Pentecost?" "I mean my folks, they was Methodist" "Pentecost..." "I don't know..." "I don't know Pentecost is..." "Mom never explained it to me." "I guess it's when the world ends and... fellas like you and me, we march off to hell" "Speak for yourself..." "You may be a sinner but I ain't yet had the opportunity" "Thank you" "Shit..." "I'm gonna go up to the sheep now" "Give 'em hell..." "No, I'm..." "You can hardly stand." "It's too late to go to them sheep" "Well, you got an extra blanket?" "I'll just roll up out here... grab 40 winks... and I'll ride out at first light" "You'll freeze your ass of when that fire dies down" "Oh, that's good" "You're better off sleeping' in the tent" "Yeah..." "All right" "Ennis!" "What?" "Just quit your yammerin' and get in here!" "What're you doin'?" "See you for supper" "Come on" "This is a one-shot thing we got goin' on here" "It's nobody's business but ours" "You know I ain't queer" "Me neither" "It's all right" "It's all right" "Lie back." "Come on" "Twist..." "Your Uncle Harold's in the hospital with pneumonia" "Docs don't expect he'll make it" "Your ma sent me to tell you, so... here I am" "Bad news" "There ain't nothing I can do about it up here, I guess" "There's not much you can do about it down there, neither" "Unless you can cure pneumonia" "Jesus..." "Them sheep'll drift if I don't get back up there tonight" "You'll get pitched off your mount in a storm like this" "You'll wish you hadn't tried it!" "It's too cold!" "Close it up!" "Well, what are we supposed to do now, huh?" "Get on in there and untangle' em Chilean sheep out of ours, I guess" "Oh, where is it?" "Shit!" "God, half the goddamn paint brands have wore off!" "We've gotta try." "The least we can do is get the count right for Aguirre" " Fuck Aguirre!" " Oh yeah, fuck Aguirre..." "What if we need to work for him again?" "You think of that?" "We gotta stick this out, Jack" "You'll run them sheep off again, if you don't quiet down" "What are you doin'?" "Aguirre came by again" "Says my uncle didn't die after all" "Says bring 'em down" "Bring 'em down, why?" "It's the middle of August" "Says there's a storm comin' moving' in from the Pacific." "Worse than this one" "That snow barely stuck an hour." "Huh?" "Besides, that son-of-a-bitch, he's cuttin' us out of a whole month's pay" "It ain't right" "Well, I can spare you a loan, bud, if you're short on cash" "Give it to you when we get to Signal" "I don't need your money, huh?" "You know, I ain't in the poorhouse..." "Shit!" "All right" "Time to get goin', cowboy" "Come here!" " This ain't no rodeo, cowboy" " Oh, shit!" "Ennis..." "Ennis" "Come here." "You okay?" " You okay?" " Yeah" "Some of these never went up there with you..." "Count ain't what I'd hoped for, neither..." "You ranch stiffs..." "you ain't ever no good" "Wanna give it some gas?" "I can't believe I left my damn shirt up there" "Yeah..." "You gonna do this again next summer?" "Well, maybe not..." "Like I said, me and Alma's gettin' married in November." "So..." "I'll try to get something on a ranch, I guess" "And you?" "Might go up to my daddy's place... and give him a hand through the winter" "I might be back..." "If the army don't get me" "Well, I guess I'll see you around, huh?" "Right" "What the fuck are you lookin' at?" "Huh?" "...and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us" "Lead us not into temptation,but deliver us from evil" "For Thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory... for ever and ever." "Amen" "Under the powers vested in me..." "I now pronounce you man and wife" "You may kiss the bride" "And if you don't, I will" "You all right?" "Stop!" "..." "No please, stop!" "My old lady's tryin' to get me to quit this job" "She says I'm gettin' too old to be breakin' my back shoveling' asphalt" "I told her strong backs and weak minds runs in the family" "She didn't think that was too funny" "I told her it keeps me fit" "Mornin'..." "Mornin'!" "Pulled in last night..." "Didn't want to wake you up" "Oh, no, I was just..." "I thought I'd tell you before the Sergeant showed up" "Parking this trailer on the beach is illegal" "Yeah!" "Well, look what the wind blew in..." "Hi, Mr. Aguirre" "I was wonderin' if you was needin' any help this summer" "You're wastin' your time here" "What, you ain't got nothin'?" "Nothin' up on Brokeback?" "I ain't got no work for you" "Ennis Del Mar ain't been around, has he?" "You boys sure found a way to make the time pass up there" "Twist... you guys wasn't gettin' paid to leave the dogs to babysit the sheep while you stemmed the rose" "Now get the hell out of my trailer" "How my girls doin'?" "All right." "Jenny's still got a runny nose" "Ennis, could you wipe Alma Jr's nose?" "If I had three hands I could!" "Come here." "Come here." "Oh!" " Girls all right?" " Yeah" "Jenny stopped her coughin'" "I think you should take the girls into town this weekend and get 'em an ice-cream... or somethin'..." "Can't we move to town?" "I'm tired of these lonesome old ranches" "No one for Alma Jr. to play with..." "Besides, I'm scared for Jenny scared she has another one of 'em bad asthma spells" "No, rent in town's too high" "There's a cheap place in Riverton, over the Laundromat" "I bet I could fix it up real nice" "Oh, I bet you could fix this place up real nice if you wanted to" " Ennis..." " Hmm?" "I know you'd like it, too" "Real home..." "Other kids for the girls to play with..." "Not so lonely like you were raised..." "You don't want it to be so lonely, do you?" "Yeah" "Come here" "I ain't so lonely now, is it?" "You sure the girls are asleep?" "Yeah" "Come here" "Ennis..." "Let 'er rip and snort, boys!" "Jack Twist, hangin' on for dear life!" "And down he goes!" "Watch out there, fella!" "He's comin' for you." "Send in the clowns!" "Okay, a fine ride by Mr. Twist" "Shit!" "Four seconds for him" "Give 'em a hand, folks, our very own rodeo clowns!" "Give us a beer, Doug" "I'd like to buy Jimbo here a beer" "Best damn rodeo clown I've ever worked with" "No thanks, cowboy" "If I was to let every rodeo hand I pulled a bull off of... buy me liquor, I'd have been a alcoholic long ago" "Pullin' bulls off of you buckaroos is just my job" "So save your money for your next entry fee, cowboy" "You ever try calf roping'?" "Do I look like I can afford a fuckin' ropin' horse?" "Shouldn't we move a little closer?" "No." "Come on, let's don't." "Jenny'll get scared" "Woo-wee!" "Look at this crowd!" "Bound to be a lot of pussy on the hoof in a crowd like this" "All swelled up with patriotic feeling... and ready to be humped like a frog" "So, where do you figure the most pussy is at?" "Las Vegas or California?" "Hell, I don't know... but if you make it between Montana and Wyoming, I'd take Wyoming" "Hey!" "You might want to keep it down, I got two little girls here" "Fuck you." "Asshole..." "Probably quit givin' it to his wife after his kids was born" " You know what that's like" " Yeah" "Ennis..." "Ennis..." "Ennis!" "..." "Ennis, let's move." "Let's just move, okay?" "Now, I don't want any trouble from you" "You need to shut your slop-bucket mouths, you hear me?" "You ought to listen to your old lady, then" " Is that right?" " Yeah." "Move somewhere else" "What about it?" "You wanna lose about half your fuckin' teeth, huh?" "Not tonight, bud." "I'd sure rather not" "It's ok..." "It's ok..." "Here she comes, ladies and gentlemen!" "Oh boy, look at her fly!" "It's Lureen Milton from right here in Childress, Texas" "Come on folks, she's one of yours..." "Let's give her a big hand" "She's turnin' on two..." "She's around three!" "Come on folks!" "Help her home!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "And the time is... 16 and 9!" "Here's Cheyenne Hodson from Cody, Wyoming!" "Come on, girl!" "She's headed around two!" "Ma'am..." "Come on, Cheyenne!" "And her time is 17 and 2!" "Here comes Scotty Griffiths, out of Lubbock, Texas" "Come on, Scotty!" "Damn it!" "Let's give Scotty Griffiths a big hand, folks" "Better luck next time, cowboy" "Boy, I tell you, folks, what a heck of a way to make a living!" "Next up is a up-and-comer!" "Jack Twist, all the way up from Lightning Flat, Wyoming" "He's onboard Sleepy today!" "Let's hope he's not" "Okay!" "..." "There they go, folks!" "And look at Sleepy go, boy!" "He's broke free today, folks!" "Come on, spin and spin and spin!" "Oh, boy!" "Good ride, cowboy!" "Let's see what the judges say..." "I tell you, folks, that sure looked like the winning' ride to me" "You know that girl?" "I sure do." "That's Lureen Newsome" "Dad sells farm equipment." "I mean, big farm equipment" "$100,000 tractors... shit like that" "What you waitin' for cowboy?" "A mating' call?" "# No one's gonna love you like me #" "# No one else, can't you see?" "#" "# No one's gonna love you like me #" "# No one, no one #" "# No one else, can't you see?" "#" "# No one's gonna love you like me #" "# No one, no one #" "# I know sometimes you felt # # so lonely #" "# I know # # you felt so sad and blue #" "Wait, hold on..." "You don't think I'm too fast, do you?" "Maybe we should put the brakes on?" "Fast or slow, I just like the direction you're goin'" " You are in a hurry" " My daddy's the hurry..." "He expects me home with the car by midnight" " Hey, Monroe" " Hey, En" "Is Alma here?" "Yeah, she's in the condiments aisle" " The what?" " Ketchup" "Thanks" "Your boy gonna play again this year?" "Hey honey!" "Hoeny, what are y'all doin' here?" "Big hurry." "My boss called and, well, he wants me to go up to the ranch" "I guess all the heifers must've decided to calve at the same time" "I figured I could drop the girls off with you" "Ennis... well..." "I got a million things I gotta do here before I can leave" "I don't get off for another three hours" " Mama, I need crayons" " Not now, Alma" "Ennis, please, you promised you'd take them tonight" "Alma, I can't afford not to be there when the heifers calve" "Right, it'd be my job if I lose any of 'em" "What about my job?" "OK, all right." "I'll call my sister." "I'll see if she can take 'em" "All right." "All right" "You be a good girl for your mama, all right?" "I'll be half the night" "Bring home some ground steaks if you think of it" "Come here." "Oh, Alma, please!" "Oh boy!" " Ok" " Monroe, I am so sorry!" "It's okay." "It's okay, Alma" "I'll clean this up just as soon as I call my sister to come get the girls" "Really, Alma, it's okay." "I'll get it" " Alma, come with me" " Watch your feet" "Alma!" "Honey, got a surprise for you" "Hey!" "..." "I got two whole boxes of formula for you" "You did?" " 120 cans - 120?" "L.D., where did you put 'em?" "Oh, hell, back seat of the car, where I left 'em" "Rodeo can get 'em" "L.D..." "I can already see who little Bobby looks like" "Good job, little girl" "He's the spittin' image of his grandpa" "Isn't he just the spitting image of his grandpa?" "Yeah..." "Look at those eyes..." "LAUNDROMAT" "Hey" "Hey, honey..." "Hey Ennis, you somebody name of Jack?" "Maybe... why?" "'Cause you got a postcard." "It come general delivery" "Friend, this letter is long over due" "Coming through on the 24th." "Drop me a line say if your there." "Jack" "Is it somebody you cowboyed with, or what?" "No, Jack, he rodeos, mostly" "We was fishin' buddies" "I'll color the beach" "Maybe we could get a babysitter" "Huh?" "Take your friend to the Knife and Fork..." "No..." "Jack ain't the restaurant type" "We'll more likely just go out and get drunk" "If he shows..." "Ok, we take one more bite and then we finish with dinner?" "There, that's a good bite." "All right, you're excused" "Jack fuckin' Twist!" "You son-of-a-bitch" "Come here" "Alma... this is Jack Twist" " Jack, this is my wife, Alma" " Howdy..." "Hellow" " Oh, you got a kid" " Yeah, I got two little girls" " Alma Junior and Jenny" " I got a boy" " Yeah?" " 8 months old." "Smiles a lot" "I married the prettiest little gal in Childress, Texas" " Yeah?" " Lureen" "Yeah..." "So me and Jack, we're gonna head out, and get ourselves a drink" "Yeah?" " Sure enough" " Pleased to meet you, ma'am" "We might not get back tonight..." "We get to drinkin' and talkin' and all" "Ennis?" "Could you get me a pack of smokes?" "If you need smokes, Alma, they're in the top pocket of my blue shirt" "There in the bedroom" " 4 years, damn!" " Yeah, 4 years" "Didn't think I'd hear from you again" "I figured you were sore from that punch" "Right next summer I drove back up to Brokeback... talked to Aguirre about a job and... he told me you hadn't been back, so I left" "Went down to Texas for rodeoin'..." "That's how I met Lureen" "Made $2,000 that year bullridin'." "Nearly starved..." "Lureen's old man makes serious money... farm machine business... of course" "He hates my guts... though" " The army didn't get you?" " Nope, too busted up" "And rodeoin' ain't what it was in my daddy's day" "Got out while I could still walk" "Swear to God, I didn't know we was goin' to get into this again" "Oh yes, I did." "I red-lined it all the way" "I couldn't get here fast enough..." "What about you?" "Me?" "I don't know..." "Old Brokeback got us good, don't it?" "What are we gonna do now?" "My God, there's nothin' we can do..." "'Cause I'm stuck with what I got here" "Makin' a livin's about all I got time for, now" "Hey..." "Well, me and Jack's headin' out for the mountains for a day or two..." "Do ourselves a little fishin'" "You know, your friend could come inside, have a cup of coffee..." "Oh, he's from Texas..." "Texans don't drink coffee?" "You sure that forman won't fire you for takin' off?" "You know, that foreman he owes me..." "I worked through a blizzard last Christmas." "You remember that?" "Besides, I'll only be a couple of days" "Bring fish, daddy." "A big, big one" "Come here..." "See you Sunday at the latest" "I'm starvin'." "Wanna get something to eat?" "Yep" "Last one in..." "Is there anything interesting up there in Heaven?" "Well, I was just sending up a prayer of thanks" "For what?" "For you forgetting' to bring that harmonica!" "I'm enjoyin' the peace and quiet" "You know, it could be like this, just like this, always" "Yeah?" "How'd you figure that?" "What about if you and me had a little ranch, somewhere..." "little cow and calf operation?" "It'd be a sweet life..." "Hell, Lureen's old man... you bet he'd give me a down payment to get lost" "I mean, he... more or less already said it" "No, I..." "I told you... it ain't gonna be that way" "You know... you you got your wife and baby in Texas, and you know, I got my life in Riverton" "That so?" "You and Alma, that's a life?" "Now you shut up about Alma..." "This ain't her fault..." "The bottom line is... we're around each other and..." "this thing grabs hold of us again in the wrong place in the wrong time we're dead" "I tell you... there were these two old guys ranched up together, down home..." "Earl and Ritch ...and they was the joke of town even though they were pretty tough old birds..." "Anyway, they found Earl dead... in an irrigation ditch" "They took a tire iron to him..." "Spurred him up, drug him around by his dick till it pulled off" "You seen this?" "Yeah, I was what?" "Nine years old?" "My daddy... he made sure me and my brother seen it" "Hell, for all I know, he done the job" "Two guys livin' together?" "No way" "Now, we can get together once in a while... way the hell out in the middle of nowhere, but..." ""Once in a while"..." "Every 4 fuckin' years?" "Well, If you can't fix it, Jack, you gotta stand it" "For how long?" "As long as we can ride it" "There ain't no reins on this one" "It's nearly supper time." "Where in the hell do you think you're goin?" "To work!" " I thought you had the day off!" " Well, you thought wrong!" "The girls need to be fed" "Well, you take care of it!" "Alma!" "..." "Alma!" "Supper is on the stove!" "No-one's eatin' unless you're servin' it!" "I already promised I'd take the extra shift!" "Fuckin' tell 'em you made a mistake, then!" "Goddamit, Alma!" "Alma!" "You girls need a push or somethin'?" " No" " No" "Listen to her purr, gentlemen." "You're not gonna get that with your Caddy" "I told you what she could do it, now I'm gonna show you." "Say, didn't that pissant used to ride the bulls?" "He used to try!" "Ennis, see you in a couple weeks fish should be jumpin'." "Jack" "Honey... have you seen my blue parka?" "Um, last time I seen it you was in it..." "Day we had that big ice storm..." "Well, could have sworn I seen it here" "You know... you've been goin' up to Wyoming all these years..." "Why can't your buddy come down here to Texas and fish?" "Because the Big Horn Mountains ain't in Texas" "And I don't think that his pick-up could make it down here anyway" "New model comin' in this week, remember?" "You the best combine salesman we got" "You're the only combine salesman, in fact..." "Yeah, well, I'll be back in a week." "That is unless I freeze to death..." "And I'll freeze if I don't find that Parka!" "Well, I don't have the goddam Parka!" "You know, you're worse than Bobby when it comes to losing' stuff" "Oh, speaking' of Bobby, did you call his school about gettin' him a tutor?" " I thought you were gonna call" " I complain too much" " The teacher don't like me..." " Right" " Now it's your turn" " Okay, fine, so I'll call later" "All right, fine..." "Bye" "I got 14 hours of driving' ahead of me" "See now, it don't seem fair" "You goin' up there two or three times a year... him never comin' down here..." "Ennis, they got an openin' over at the power company." "Might be good pay" "Well, as clumsy as I am, I'd probably get electrocuted" "Daddy, the church picnic's next weekend" "Will you be back from fishing' by next weekend?" "Please, daddy, please!" "All right, as long as I don't have to sing" "Daddy..." "Thank you" "You forgetting' somethin'?" "You're late!" "Look what I brought..." "Here we go." "No hands!" "It's all yours, buddy!" "It's all yours" "Come on..." "Come on..." "Come on in, Alvin..." "I've been trying to call you for hours" "It's Saturday night." "You know, we could still smarten up and head on over to the church social" "That fire and brimstone crowd?" "I think it'd be nice" "Ennis... as far behind as we are in the bills... it makes me nervous not to take no precaution" "If you don't want no more of my kids..." "I'd be happy to leave you alone" "I'd have 'em, if you'd support 'em..." "Custody of the two minor children..." "Alma Del Mar Jr. and Jennifer Del Mar is awarded to plaintiff" "Defendant is ordered to pay child support to plaintiff... in the sum of $125... per month for each of the minor children until they reach the age of 18 years" "Del Mar divorce granted, this 6th day of November, 1975" "ENTERING WYOMING" "King of the road!" "In you go..." "What are you doin' here, huh?" "Got your message about the divorce" "Come here..." "This here's Jack." "Jack these are my little girls..." "This here's Alma Jr. and Jenny" "Hey" " Say hi, girls" " Hi" "I got your card that the divorce came through" "Yeah" "So, here I am" "I had to ask about 10 different people in Riverton where you had moved to" "I guess..." "I thought that this means you..." "No..." "Jack..." "I don't know what to say..." "See, I got the girls this weekend, and..." "Jeez, I..." "I'm sure as hell sorry..." "You know I am" "See, I only get 'em once and month and..." "I missed last month..." "So I just... because of the round up..." " So, uh... well..." " Yeah, all right" "Jack..." "Well, I'll see you next month, then" "Comin' up..." "Here we go" "Here we are!" "Whoa there, Rodeo." "Stud duck do the carving' around here" "You bet, LD, I was just..." "saving' you the trouble" "Bobby?" "I you don't eat your dinner" "I'm gonna have to turn off that television" "Why mama?" "I'm gonna be eating this food for the next two weeks" "Hey, you heard your mama" "You can finish your meal, and then you can watch the game" "Daddy..." "Daddy!" "Hell, we don't eat with our eyes!" "You want the boy to grow up to be a man, don't you, daughter?" "Boys should watch football" "Like Hell." "Not until he finishes eating the meal... that his mama took three hours fixin'" "You sit down, you old son-of-a-bitch!" "This is my house, this is my child and you are my guest" "Now you sit down before I knock your ignorant ass into next week" "Daddy... tell about when you rode broncs in the rodeo" "Well... that's a short story honey" "I t was only about 3 seconds I was on that bronc" "Next thing I knew, I was flyin' through the air" "Only I was no angel like you and Jenny, here" "I didn't have no wings" "And that's the story of..." "my saddle bronc career" "There you go" "You oughta get married again, Ennis" "Me and the girls worry about you bein' alone so much" "Hm..." "Well, once burned..." "You still go fishin' with Jack Twist?" "Not often" "You know, I used to wonder how come you never brought any trouts home" "You always said you caught plenty and you know how me and the girls like fish" "So one night I got your creell case open... night before you went on one of your little trips" "Price tag still on it after five years..." "And I tied a note to the end of the line" "It said, Hello Ennis." "Bring some fish home." "Love Alma. "" "And then you come back..." "looking' all perky... and said you caught a bunch of brown ones and you ate 'em all up" "D'you remember?" "I looked in that case first chance I got and there's my note still tied there..." "That line hadn't touched water in its life!" "..." "That don't mean nothin', Alma" "Don't try and fool me no more, Ennis." "I know what it means..." " Jack Twist..." " Alma..." "Jack "Nasty"." "You didn't go up there to fish, you..." "Now you listen to me." "You don't know nothin' about it..." "Ah!" "I'm gonna yell for Monroe" "You do it..." "I'll make you eat the fuckin' floor" "Get out!" "Get out!" "Get out!" "Get out of my house!" "Daddy!" "Alma!" "Bye, Daddy!" "Bye!" "Hey, asshole, watch where you're goin'!" "You stupid fucker!" "Goddam..." "All I'm sayin' is what's the point of making it?" "If the tax don't get you, the inflation will eat it all up" "You should see Lureen, punchin' numbers in her adding' machine" "Hunting for extra zeros... her eyes gettin' smaller and smaller" "It's like watchin' a rabbit... tryin' to squeeze into a snake hole with a coyote on its tail" "That's some high-class entertainment if you ask me" "For what it's worth..." "You and Lureen it's... normal an' all?" "Sure" "She don't ever suspect?" "You ever get the feelin' I don't know when you're in town and someone looks at you... suspicious..." "like he knows" "Then you go out on the pavement and everyone's lookin' at you like they all know, too?" "Maybe you oughta get out of there, you know?" "Find yourself some place different, maybe Texas" "Texas?" "Sure, and maybe you can convince Alma to let you and Lureen adopt the girls" "Then we could just live together, herding' sheep" "And it'll rain money from LD Newsome... and whisky will flow in the stream..." "Jack, that's real smart..." "Go to hell, Ennis Del Mar..." "You wanna live your miserable fuckin' life?" "Then go right ahead" " Fine" " I was just thinkin' out loud..." "Yup, you're a real thinker, there" "Goddam..." "Jack fuckin' Twist." "Got it all figured out, ain't ya?" "All right, hon..." "Just finished my shift..." "Wanna dance?" "Well, I was on my way to..." " I'm Cassie, Cassie Farrah" "Ennis..." "Del Mar" "No more dancin' for me, I hope" "You're safe." "My feet hurt..." "It's hard work, is it?" "Yeah!" "Drunks like you, demanding beer after beer... smokin'..." "Gets tiresome" "What do you do, Ennis Del Mar?" "Well... earlier today I was castrating calves" "What are you doin'?" "Tryin' to get a foot rub, dummy" "All right..." " That good?" " Mm-uhm" "And then I pledged Tri-Delt at SMU..." "And I sure never thought" "I'd end up in a poky little place like Childress" "Then I met old Randall here at an Aggie game..." "He was an animal husbandry major" "So we've been here for a month and he got the foreman job over at Roy Taylor's ranch" "Like it or not, here I am!" "..." "Was you Tri-Delt?" "I was Kappa Phi myself..." "Well, even though we ain't quite sorority sisters we just may have to dance with ourselves, Lureen!" "Our husbands ain't the least bit interested in dancing'!" "They ain't got a smidgen of rhythm between 'em" "It's funny, isn't it!" "Husbands don't never seem to want dance with their wives" "Why do you think that is, Jack?" "I don't know, I never give it any thought" "Wanna dance?" "Yes!" "Thank you!" " Do you mind?" " No, it's all right." "Go ahead..." "Pardon us..." "Thank you for asking me to dance with you" "I really appreciate that." "Randall never does" "It's a good thing you and Lureen happened along when you did... or else we'd still be stuck on the side of the road in that darn pick-up..." "I told Randall we oughta take the car" "Of course, he'd never listen to me!" "He wouldn't listen to me if he was goin' deaf tomorrow" "I told him it'd take more than chewing gum... and baling wire to fix that pickup" "Well... he's never been very mechanical, though" " Come over here and ask..." " All right..." "You ever notice how a woman will powder her nose before she goes to a party?" "And then she'll powder it again once the party's over?" "Why powder your nose just to go home and go to bed?" "I don't know..." "Even if I wanted to know" "I couldn't get a word in with Lashawn long enough to ask!" " That woman talks a blue streak" " A lively little gal..." "You'll like workin' for Roy Taylor..." " He's solid, Roy" " Oh yeah, Roy, he's a good old boy" "He's got a little..." "cabin, down on Lake Kemp" "Got a crop house, a little boat..." "Said I could use it whenever I want" "We oughta go down there some weekend" "Drink a little whisky..." "fish some..." "Get away... you know?" "That was right out of SMU" "I could've had my pick of pretty much any job in North Dallas" "So my pick was Neiman Marcus, which was a disaster 'cause honey, where clothes is concerned, I got no resistence" "I was spendin' more than I made." "More than Randall ever will make!" "We come out here thinking that ranchin' was still big hats and Marlboros" "Boy, were we behind the times!" "Hey there, Junior?" "You ready?" "What do you think?" "Your daddy ever gonna see fit to settle down again?" "I don't know..." "Maybe he's not the marryin' kind..." "You don't think so?" "Or you don't think I'm the one for him?" "You're good enough" "You don't say much but you get your point across" "Sorry, didn't mean to be rude" "Hi" "Ah!" "You're stayin' on your feet, cowboy" "Excuse me darlin'" "So I'll pick you and Jenny up next weekend, after church" "Fine" "You all right?" "Yes" "Are you sure?" "Daddy, I was thinkin'... what with a new baby and all..." "Ma and Monroe have been awful strict on me" "More on me than Jenny, even" "I was thinkin'... maybe I could... maybe I could come and stay with you" "I'd be an awful good help, I know I would..." "Well, I..." "You know I ain't set up for that" "With the round-up comin'..." "I won't ever be home" "It's all right, daddy" " I'm not sayin' I wouldn't..." " It's all right, I understand" "All right, well, I'll see you on Sunday, then" "Bye" "Bye, sweetheart" "Going to snow tonight for sure" "Yep" "All this time, you ain't found nobody else to marry?" "I've been puttin' the blocks to a good lookin' little gal over in Riverton" "She's a waitress... want's to go to nursing' school or somethin'..." "I don't know..." "What about you and Lureen?" "Lureen's good at making hard deals in the machinery business but as far as our marriage goes we could do it over the phone" "I kind of got this thing with... the ranch foreman's wife over in Childress" "I'm scared I'll get shot by Lureen or her husband... each time I slip off to see her" "You probably deserve it" "Tell you what... the truth is... sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it" "I guess I'll head up on to Lightning Flat... see the folks for a day or two" "There is somethin' I been meanin' to tell you, bud" "Well, it's likely November before I can come out here again" "After we shift stock and... before winter feeding' starts again" "November..." "Well, what in the hell ever happened to August?" "Christ, Ennis..." "You know, you had a fuckin' week to say some little word about this" "Why is it we're always in the friggin' cold?" "We oughta go south, where it's warm" "You know, we oughta go to Mexico!" "Mexico?" "Hell Jack, you know me." "About the only travelling' I ever done is around a coffee pot lookin' for the handle" "Come on Jack, lighten up on me" "We can hunt in November..." "Kill us a nice elk..." "I'll try if I can get Don Wroe's cabin again" "We had a good time that year, didn't we?" "There's never enough time, never enough" "You know, friend... this is a Goddam bitch of an unsatisfactory situation" "You used to come away easy." "Now it's like seein' the Pope" "Jack, I got to work..." "Huh?" "I mean, in them earlier days I'd just quit the job" "You... you forget what it's like bein' broke all the time" "You ever hear of child support?" "I tell you this, I can't quit this one... and I can't get the time off" "It's hard enough gettin' this time." "The trade-off is August" "You got a better idea?" "I did, once" "You did, once" "Have you been in Mexico, Jack Twist?" "'Cause I hear what they got in Mexico for boys like you" "Hell yes, I've been in Mexico." "Is that a fuckin' problem?" "I'm gonna tell you this one time, Jack fuckin' Twist" "And I ain't foolin'..." "What I don't know, all them things that I don't know I could get you killed if I come to know them" "I ain't jokin'" "Well try this one..." "and I'll say it just once..." "Go ahead..." "I tell you what... we could had a good life together, fuckin' real good life" "Had us a place of our own..." "But you didn't want it, Ennis!" "..." "So what we got now is Brokeback Mountain!" "Everything's built on that!" "That's all we got, boy..." "Fuckin' all!" "So I hope you know that, if you don't never know the rest!" " God damn it..." " You count the damn few times... that we have been together in nearly 20 years... and you measure the short fuckin' leash you keep me on... and then you ask me about Mexico" "And then you tell me you kill me for needing' something that I don't hardly never get" "You have no idea how bad it gets..." "And I'm not you." "I can't make it on a couple of high-altitude fucks once or twice a year..." "You are too much for me, Ennis..." "Son of a horsin' bitch..." "I wish I knew how to quit you..." "Well, why don't you?" "Why don't you just let me be, huh?" "It's because of you, Jack, that I'm like this..." "I'm nothin..." "I'm nowhere..." "Get the fuck off me!" "It's all right, it's all right..." "Damn you, Ennis..." "I just can't stand this any more, Jack" "And now you're sleepin' on your feet like a horse..." "My mom used to say that to me when I was little" "And sing to me..." "I gotta go" "See you in the mornin'..." "Excuse me..." "Hey!" "Ennis Del Mar..." "Where you been?" "Here and there..." "I left word for you, with Steve, at the ranch..." "But you must've got those notes I left at your place..." "Looks like I got the message in any case" "Carl?" "Yeah, Carl's nice..." "He even talks..." "Good for you..." "Yeah..." "Good for me..." "I don't get you, Ennis Del Mar..." "I'm sorry..." "I was probably no fun anyways, was I?" "Ennis, girls don't fall in love with fun..." "Jack, how about November 7 for you?" "I can meet you at pine creek" "DECEASED" "Hello..." "Hello, this is..." "Ennis Del Mar..." "Eh..." "Who?" " Who is this?" " Ennis Del Mar" "An old buddy of Jack's" "Jack used to mention you..." "You're the fishin' buddy or the hunting' buddy, I know that" "Would have let you know what happened but..." "I wasn't sure about your name or address" "Jack kept his friends' addresses in his head" "That's what I'm callin'..." "to see what happened" "Oh, yeah..." "Jack was pumpin' up a flat on the truck out on the back road when the tyre blew up" "The rim of the tyre slammed into his face... broke his nose and jaw.." "...and knocked him unconscious on his back" "By the time somebody come along he had drowned in his own blood" "He was only 39 years old..." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Hello!" "Was he buried down there?" "We put a stone up" "He was cremated, like he wanted." "Half his ashes was interred here the rest was sent up with his folks" "He used to say he wanted his ashes scattered on Brokeback Mountain" "But I wasn't sure where that was" "Thought Brokeback Mountain might be around where he grew up" "Knowin' Jack... it might be some pretend place... where bluebirds sing, and there's a whisky spring" "No, ma'am, we was... herdin' sheep on Brokeback one summer." "Back in 1963..." "Well... he said it was his favourite place" "I thought he meant to get drunk." "He drank a lot" "Is his folks still..." "up in Lightning Flat?" "They'll be there till the day they die..." "Thank you for your time" "I sure am sorry..." "We was good friends." "Get in touch with his folks." "I suppose they'd appreciate it... if his wishes was carried out..." "About the ashes, I mean..." "Want a cup of coffee, don't you?" "Piece of cherry cake?" "Yes, ma'am, I'll have a cup of coffee but... but I can't eat no cake just now" "I feel awful bad about Jack" "Thank you" "I can't begin to tell you how bad I feel" "I knew him a long time" "I come by to say... if you want me to take his ashes up there on Brokeback like his wife said he wanted to then I'd be happy to" "Tell you what..." "I know where Brokeback Mountain is..." "Thought he was too goddam special to be buried in the family plot" "Jack used to say..." ""Ennis Del Mar"... he used to say..." ""I'm gonna bring him up here one of these days... "" ""... and we'll lick this damn ranch into shape"" "He had some half-baked notion the two of you was gonna move up here ...build a cabin help run the place" "Then this spring... he got another fella gonna come up here with him build the place..." "help run the ranch" "Some ranch neighbour of his from down in Texas..." "Gonna split up with his wife and come back here... so he says..." "But, like most of Jack's ideas... never come to pass..." "I kept his room..." "like it was when he was a boy" "I think he appreciated that" "You are welcome to go up to his room, if you want..." "Yeah, I'd like that, thank you..." "Tell you what... we got a family plot." "He's goin' in it" "Yes, sir..." "You'll come back and see us again..." "Thank you... ma'am" " Hey there, Junior" " Hey, daddy" "Come here" " Like the car?" " Yeah, is it yours?" "It's Kurt's" "I thought you were seein' Troy?" "Troy?" "Daddy that was 2 years ago" " Troy still playin' baseball?" " I don't know what he's doin'" "I'm seein' Kurt, now..." " Well, what does Kurt do?" " Works out on the oil fields" " So he's a roughneck, huh?" " Yeah" "I guess you're 19 you can do whatever you want." "Isn't that right?" "Sure..." "Daddy, you need more furniture..." "Yeah, well... if you got nothin', you don't need nothin'" "So, what's the occasion?" "Me and Kurt... we're gettin' married" "Well..." "How long you known this guy for?" "About a year..." "The wedding'll be June 5th at the Methodist church" "Jenny will be singing and..." "Monroe's gonna cater the reception" "Now this Kurt fella he loves you?" "Yeah, daddy... he loves me" "Was hoping' you'd be there" "Yeah..." "I think I'm supposed to be... on a round-up down near the Tetons" "You know what?" "..." "I reckon they can find themselves a new cowboy..." "My little girl... is getting married..." "To Alma and Kurt!" "Jack, I swear..."