The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

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DVD Capture

Site Name: Hills and Mountains

Travel Directions:
Hwy 22, south of Longview, 13 km to Bar U Ranch, continue south 9.1 km to 786 Ave., turn left (east) on 786 Ave., approximately 2 km to hill crest, park and walk to southwest corner of fenced area near summit, face west.

Remarks:
This intricate montage of peaks and hills opens the film. The shot is taken from near Hwy 22, south of Longview, facing westward. It was taken from an elevated site.

The Bar U Ranch, originally owned by George Lane (one of the four founders of the Calgary Stampede), can be found 13 km south of Longview. It has been preserved as a National Historic Site and is open to the public during the summer. Also nearby is the ranch of Canadian country music legend Ian Tyson (songwriter and performer of the timeless folk song "Four Strong Winds"). Still very active, Tyson is often spotted in Longview buying groceries or playing impromptu sets in local bars.
[FindingBrokeback.Com]

Four strong winds that blow lonely, Seven seas that run high,
All these things that don't change, Come what may.
But our good times are all gone,
And I'm bound for moving on.
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way.
Think I'll go out to Alberta,
Weather's good there in the fall.
Got some friends that I can go to working for,
Still I wish you'd change your mind
If I asked you one more time,
But we've been through that a hundred times or more.

[Ian Tyson]

[southendmd]

Mount Murray looms behind Ennis in this memorable scene as he swigs Old Rose whiskey and trades lies with Jack. The truth is much easier to find in the short sleeping-in-the-tent shot that follows. (findingbrokeback.com)

[Fran]

The website quotes director Ang Lee, who recalled some supervising notes he wrote on the script when he was shooting some mountain peaks in Alberta.

"I said, 'A cheap imitation of Wyoming,' " Lee remembered.

But Alberta Film Commissioner Dan Chugg argues that Lee likely meant to say "cost-effective" instead of "cheap."

Financial incentives have drawn many film companies to Canada, which has built a $5 billion US film industry in the process.

Indeed, because of the high amount of production in Canada, production companies can employ local crews instead of importing them from elsewhere, thereby lowering the overall cost of the film.

In fact, nearly 600 Albertan crewmembers were involved in the making of Brokeback Mountain over a period of three months, Chugg told CTV.ca.

-- Mary Nersessian, CTV.ca News

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Site Name: Courtroom
Location: Town Hall building, 236 23rd Street (Hwy #3 east), Fort Macleod, AB


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Remarks:
After you have dined at the Java Shop, take a short walk to the Town Hall building and ask helpful clerk Brenda for a peek at the Council Chambers upstairs. Note the collection of old photographs in the stairwell that recall some of Fort Macleod’s former glory as a wilderness outpost of the British Empire. It is safe to speculate that no action the Fort Macleod Town Council has taken or will ever take could possibly achieve the notoriety of Alma and Ennis’ divorce.


Quotation:
“Del Mar divorce granted....”
[FindingBrokeback.Com]

[memento]

Site Name: Pole Bridge
Travel Directions:
At the northern end of Spray Valley Provincial Park, just south of Canmore. The easiest way to access the site is to follow Hwy 742 and park at the Goat Creek picnic area. Walk south along Hwy 742 for approximately 200 meters. At the point where the utility lines cross Hwy 742 you will see a gravel road to your right (west). Turn right and follow the gravel road approximately 0.7 km downhill until you reach a clearing. Turn right and continue across the clearing, passing the Fight Hill and the Dozy Embrace site. As you approach Goat Creek, you will see the familiar Pole Bridge and campsite.

Remarks:
Campsite #2 is high on every Brokeback pilgrim's list of places to savor. It boasts an unmatched assortment of memorable settings. The Tent Area, the “Get Goin', Cowboy” Hillside, the Pole Bridge, and, of course, the Dozy Embrace site, make for a remarkable visit.

FindingBrokeback.com

[southendmd]

Site Name: "Sweet Life" Riverside
 

Travel Directions:
Bragg Creek Provincial Park: Follow Hwy 66 west to Elbow Falls Day Use Area. As you enter, the site is to the immediate right at the most upstream portion of the area.

Remarks:
This location served two scenes. Ennis and Jack returned here as older men in the “Maybe Texas” scene. The same proposal was made then; the response was no different.

The rock upon which Ennis rested his head in thankful prayer is a great spot to relax and ponder the beauty of this place, or the details of any cow and calf operations you may be contemplating. While you are here, don’t miss the lovely Elbow Falls which are downstream approximately 250 yds.

[Fran]

Site Name: Campsite #2

Travel Directions:
At the northern end of Spray Valley Provincial Park, just south of Canmore. The easiest way to access the site is to follow Hwy 742 and park at the Goat Creek picnic area. Walk south along Hwy 742 for appoximately 200 meters. At the point where the utility lines cross Hwy 742 you will see a gravel road to your right (west). Turn right and follow the gravel road approximately 0.7 km downhill until you reach a clearing. Turn right and continue across the clearing, passing the Fight Hill and the Dozy Embrace site. As you approach Goat Creek, you will see the familiar Pole Bridge and campsite.

Remarks:
That so-very-memorable tent occupied a clearing near the creek that is still visible. Indeed the campfire, pole bridge, grassy hill, and creek all “look right.”

Quotation:
“Tent don’t look right.”

[findingbrokeback.com

[memento]

Site Name: Monroe’s House (Exterior)

Travel Directions:
Near the corner of 9th Street NW and 18th Avenue NW, just northwest of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood.

Remarks:
Ennis stormed out of this wood-frame Mount Pleasant house that snowy Thanksgiving night and years later returned to pick up insightful Alma, Jr. Do not bother knocking; this is not the building used for the chilling interior scenes, which were filmed in a Scarboro home south of here.

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It is unarguable that Alberta's scenery and film resources made a huge contribution to the beauty and commercial success of Brokeback Mountain.

[Meryl]

The man in charge of vittles for the Alberta shoot of BBM was chef Vance Wagner.