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Broken in Two
moremojo:
--- Quote from: southendmd on May 03, 2006, 05:03:37 pm ---
Has anyone heard what Proulx herself might have intended?
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I believe I read somewhere that there is a site in Wyoming called Breakback Mountain, and that Proulx was inspired to tweak this a bit to form 'Brokeback Mountain'. But it should be stressed that Brokeback Mountain is not meant to stand in for Breakback Mountain, and the town of Signal is likewise fictional.
I've also read comments alluding to the sexually suggestive connotations of 'Brokeback', along with its more obvious connotations of a hard life (as in, "back-breaking work", the kind that Ennis endured for his whole existence).
starboardlight:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 03, 2006, 04:46:18 pm ---There is a part of the story left out of the movie which gave me another clue to the naming of Brokeback Mountain. As Jack and Ennis relax together at the motel after reuniting, Jack tells Ennis why the Army "didn't get him" and he got out of rodeoing: "Got...a stress fracture, the arm bone here....Even if you tape it good, you break it a little goddam bit at a time. . . . Had a busted leg. Busted in three places. . . . Bunch a other things, f**kin busted ribs, sprains and pains, torn ligaments." Not only is Jack's body broken, but in the end his ashes were divided up, never to be made whole again, and far from Brokeback Mountain.
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that just made me think of the song in Hedwig.
"And, if we don't behave,
They'll tear us down again."
Jack dreamed further than fate would allow, and so he is torn in half yet again.
Front-Ranger:
Those are really interesting observations southend and starboard!
j.U.d.E.:
--- Quote ---Means worthless, swayback
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Don't quite like that..
~ j U d E
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: nakymaton on May 03, 2006, 04:57:04 pm ---"You break it a little goddam bit at a time..."
Yeeouch. Do you think it was like that, every time Ennis refused the possibility of a "sweet life"?
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Wow. Never made that connection. But I'm always going on about how we watch Jack's heart break a little bit at a time over the course of the movie. Thanks for that. :-*
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