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"Brokeback Fever Pitch," "I 'Cowbot", and other sequels....

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TOoP/Bruce:
by - bjblakeslee (Thu Apr 27 2006 13:25:15 )   

UPDATED Mon May 8 2006 14:30:43
Of course a sequel is utterly rediculous... When the story is done, it's done. Except in Hollywood...

Never underestimate the power of profit!

What follows are a series of posts (tongue firmly in cheek) dedicated to proving the rule that a sequel can always be generated - granted only this: one must be fully committed to completely sacrificing the artistic integrity of the source material.

There is a genre here for just about everyone. Enjoy them, or don't...

Furthermore, the BBM franchise can be infinitely extended:

1.) by gutting virtually any story to its framework and injecting it with Brokeback Mountain DNA,
2.) simply negating the original story and rewriting;
3.) redressing the original with new props,
4.) slicing into the timeline of the original story and injecting new material;
5.) continuing the original story forward by using an improbable event and reshuffling elements of the source material;
6.) or simply dropping a completely different story line into the BBM Universe.

For anyone who feels a sequel is unnecessary, congratulations. You've decided wisely.


Some people might wonder why there are a number of Sci-Fi stories. If we are to learn anything from Sci-Fi, it is this: death is not forever. Annie Proulx also suggested that her inspiration for some of Brokeback Mountain came from science fiction--people transported by a wormhole (Brokeback) and forever changed by the experience.

TOoP/Bruce:
by - bjblakeslee (Thu Apr 27 2006 13:27:56 )   

"It's a Wonderful Brokeback Life" - Christmas TV Special

PLOT SYNOPSIS:

Ennis works hard to bring home money for Alma to spend on Christmas gifts, all the while thinking of Jack as he is working with animals.

Lureen works hard to bring home money for Jack to spend on Christmas gifts. Jack goes shopping and lingers in the men's hat section eyeing an earthtoned Stetson Resistol, which he buys for himself because it reminds him of Ennis.

Cross cut with scenes of tranquil domesticity as both families happily prepare for the holidays.

Jack decides to grow a mustache.

Jack sends Ennis a Christmas card: "Friend, have a festive holiday! See you in the spring! Jack."

Ennis sends Jack a Christmas postcard: "You bet."

TOoP/Bruce:
by - bjblakeslee (Thu Apr 27 2006 13:29:53 )   

"Brokeback Fever Pitch"

PLOT SYNOPSIS: (Send this to Project Greenlight, has some potential as an Affleck/Damon vehicle)

Ennis and Jack meet in Boston during the baseball off-season at a "Cowboy Up" event at a local gay bar and choose to leave their wives and marry each other. They get autographs of Kevin Millar and Johnny Damon.

Jack becomes frustrated because Ennis will only be intimate with him when the Red Sox win a game. Hilarity and heartbreak ensue.

Jack (wearing a Jason Veritek jersey): "I'm get wicked lonely waiting for off-season. Just once I wish you would look at me like I was freekin Jason Veritek or something."

Ennis (wearing a Pedro Martinez jersey): "Jack, you'll always be my freekin Veritek."

Jack scores seats on the Green Monster during the playoffs, and Ennis goes for beer and pizza, only to return and find Jack was fatally injured during his absence by a Yankee home run struck by Derek Jeter.

Ennis's sadness stays with him even after the Sox win the World Series in 2004 and Reverse the Curse of the Bambino. Too late, Ennis comes to realize that the World Series trophy has come at enormous personal cost.

Ennis hangs both his and Jack's jersey in his closet on a hanger together, number 45 tenderly and symbolically cradling number 33, home colors lovingly cradling away colors, hanging together like two skins.

Ennis, eyes watering, kisses a Carlton Fisk autographed ball, replaces it in the closet, and says: "Jack, I swear... Yankees Suck"

TOoP/Bruce:
by - bjblakeslee (Thu Apr 27 2006 13:32:03 )   

"The Day of the Jonquil"

PLOT SYNOPSIS:

FBI agent Ennis Delmar returns from Brokeback Mountain after a summer of deep cover and sets about working on a covert op directed personally by J. Edgar Hoover.

Hoover wishes to bring down the present administration, and he authorizes a hit on the wife of the President of the United States - code named: Jonquil. Ennis, under the pretext of preparing for a November wedding, arranges the purchase of special weapons arranged through a Basque contact he arranged to meet on Brokeback (the mixing of the sheep was a cover op) and imported by a female deep cover agent in Childress Texas - Lureen. Ennis must collect the weapons he ordered, but much to his horror he sees Jack and fears his cover will be blown. Lureen seduces Jack to allow Ennis time to escape with his weapons shipment, and to set up operations in Dallas Texas. Hoover tells Ennis he wants the first lady assassinated as the motorcade parades through Dallas and gives him the exact date. Ennis realizes it is the day after his wedding and he will need to do some quick thinking to continue to use Alma as his cover story. He plans a wedding reception in Dallas

Ennis returns to Wyoming with plans underway. He marries Alma and on the night of their wedding, they travel to their honeymoon in Dallas Texas. The next morning, Ennis tells Alma that he is going out for some smokes and he might not be back until night. Alma sobs tearfully after he leaves, thinking that Ennis might be going off to see another man.

Ennis takes up position in the snipers nest he has arranged in Dallas. The motorcade passes through Dallas and Ennis takes aim at his target, when suddenly shots ring out from the grassy knoll. The president has been gunned down and Ennis suddenly realizes he has been set up by J. Edgar Hoover to take the fall!

TOoP/Bruce:
by - bjblakeslee (Thu Apr 27 2006 13:36:30 )   

UPDATED Thu Apr 27 2006 13:36:54
"Brokeback Mountain ('Delmar Darko' Special Extended Edition)"

(ALTERATION TO MOVIE: After every time Ennis and Jack separate, add a bizarre conversation with Ennis and a man in a weird rabbit suit.)

(ALTERATION to end of orginal movie to cut and reloop the timeline.)

Ennis at his closet. Ennis says "Jack, I swear..."

Sudden cut to black.

In the darkness, the sound of truck engine humming along then coming to a stop.

Reprise montage from beginning of movie: Street scene, train passes. Replace shots of Ennis on steps of Aguirre's tailer with shots of Ennis nervously darting glances down the road as he smokes. (NO MUSIC)

Green truck pulls in. Wheel spin kicks up dirt. Ennis tosses cigarette.

Jack steps out of truck. Strikes pose against truck. Locks eyes with at Ennis (looking directly into camera).

Ennis looks up from under brim of his hat, meets his gaze and locks eyes with him. (cue to Opening chords) Slight smile from Ennis.

Ennis crosses street. Takes out two cigarettes, lights both at the same time and passes one to Jack. (Homage to Now Voyager). Jack smiles. Camera pulls back as they begin to talk (Dub music The Wings and fade out).

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