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Title: My Brokeback Montage
Post by: EnnisDelMar on April 27, 2006, 01:49:42 pm
Hello everyone. I made this montage back in early February at the height of my Brokeback Fever, and I just want to give everyone the chance to see it. It's high quality and 10 mins long so it's a fairly large file..but please tell me what you all think ;D

Montage
http://rapidshare.de/files/12720041/bbmv_0001.wmv.html (http://rapidshare.de/files/12720041/bbmv_0001.wmv.html)

Here are pics to assist you in downloading the file-
1. http://tinypic.com/view/?pic=ncy4vp (http://tinypic.com/view/?pic=ncy4vp)
2. Wait 45-60 seconds for link and click it then..http://tinypic.com/view/?pic=ncy4qb (http://tinypic.com/view/?pic=ncy4qb)
Title: Re: My Brokeback Montage
Post by: rtprod on April 27, 2006, 03:08:28 pm
I love this montage actually and have watched it several times.  What's great about it how it simplifies the story but doesn't lose the essence of the characters or plot.  It takes the narrative, reduces the wives' roles, eliminates my girlfriend (Cassie) altogether as well as Alma, Jr., and very effectively focuses on what we love the most--Jack and Ennis.  Interesting choice to incorporate the flashback in the closet scene. It's well edited and the score is nicely looped. 

In shortening, it loses nothing actually and contains the same feelings as the feature film, a bit more concentrated here of course and functions like an effective silent film.  Decades ago Hollywood used to actually shorten features in this way for 8mm distribution in the 60s and 70s, and didn't do half as careful a job as you have done here, Brandon.  It's really a lovingly done exercise, honoring the movie but giving it your own sort of context in eliminating some of the periphery. 

In short, this montage is a tribute to what Ang Lee and company have done, but additionally, one gets a real sense of the person who created it.   His heart was on his sleeve during the production, methinks, like most of us when we're in the company of our amazing film. 

I'm really impressed.  :D

Oh, with the montage as well.  teheh.   ;)

rt
Title: Re: My Brokeback Montage
Post by: EnnisDelMar on April 27, 2006, 03:15:00 pm
 :) Thanks much rt ;)
Title: Re: My Brokeback Montage
Post by: rtprod on April 27, 2006, 03:43:04 pm
When you think about the sheer number of montages, clips and versions that many like brandon and michael have done, it's a little bit awe-inspiring to think about what is underneath. 

It's obviously an homage to the film, in one sense.  Then on another hand, editing, assembling, watching and arranging are ways to spend time with and get even closer to the characters and story than those of us who just watch and feel might  And then even more to the point, it's a way to shape the story, to be an active participant in the saga of Jack and Ennis (much like we do posting here), to enshrine them with a personal touch that's all yours.  The heart and work people have put in is a tribute to the film but to the rest of us too, who choose to spend time watching montages about characters we care deeply for, made by people we feel things for as well.  So it's all upside. 

We could even find a way to arrange the material to even give them the happy ending they deserve.

You bet.  ;)

 
Title: Re: My Brokeback Montage
Post by: EnnisDelMar on April 27, 2006, 11:32:30 pm
bump
Title: Re: My Brokeback Montage
Post by: jpwagoneer1964 on June 10, 2006, 02:24:33 pm
WOW!!!!!!!!!
Great Job!!! Liked the flashbacks in the Twists closet and before "I swear..." I often wish in the movie that just before Ennis says that they fade out to do several as yet unseen clips of their time together, perhaps ending with the very last moments together as they pick eachother up and walk to the truck.
Title: Re: My Brokeback Montage
Post by: bbm_stitchbuffyfan on June 10, 2006, 11:05:48 pm
I remember seeing this one on IMDB. It's so beautiful. Of course, it made me cry.
Title: Re: My Brokeback Montage
Post by: EnnisDelMar on June 15, 2006, 07:12:05 pm
Thanks again
Title: Re: My Brokeback Montage
Post by: ProwlAmongUs on June 15, 2006, 11:01:23 pm
I love it. It's great!
Title: Re: My Brokeback Montage
Post by: JCinNYC2006 on June 16, 2006, 10:03:37 am
bump so i can download this at home...
Title: Re: My Brokeback Montage
Post by: EnnisDelMar on June 16, 2006, 01:01:33 pm
oh you haven't seen it yet, cool I hope you like it when you get home
Title: Re: My Brokeback Montage
Post by: EnnisDelMar on July 10, 2006, 09:53:54 am
bump..