first assignment for script writing class

1. Point College
Title: Brokeback Mountain
Assignment No.: 1
Date: 19/01/2015
Name: Lee Sweet Wan
Course: Introduction to Scriptwriting

2. Movie Title: Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Director: Ang Lee
Movie Genre: Epic Romantic Drama Film
Protagonist:
Ennis Del Mar- A guy who parents died in an accident and raised by his brother and
sister. His sister then got married and left so he work with his brother on a ranch up near
Worland. When he was 19, his brother got married too and he ends up work with Jack
at Brokeback Mountain. After that, he finds himself in a personal sexual situation with
Jack which he could not understand. In addition, Ennis is always passive in his
relationship between him and Jack, being more reluctant to show affections towards
Jack. When Jack brings up suggestion about living together, he always refused him.
Jack Twist- A rodeo cowboy who has a skill with him. Jack is always more passionate
and romantic than Ennis. In addition, he can be consider as bisexual as he got the
sexual and emotional relationship between his wife Lureen and Ennis but he still showed
more sexual desire in men.
Antagonist:
Alma Beers Del Mar- Wife of Ennis Del Mar who discover the secret between Ennis and
his young fellow, Jack. After the feelings of betrayer, she then divorce with Ennis and
living a new life with her employer, Monroe and her two daughters, Alma Del Mar Junior
and Jennifer Del Mar.
Luceen Newsome- A girl that meets and marries with Jack Twist in Texas, who father
owns a business selling farm equipment. She is the one who holds the money of the
family with Jack who feeling look down from Luceen’s father and feels no love
between him and Luceen.
Storyline:
Beginning
In 1963, there are two young men who named Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist are hired
by Joe Aguirre to a job which is sheep herding for the summer on Brokeback Mountain
in Wyoming. Ennis work as a camp tender who only stay in the main camp while Jack
work as a herder who must sleep with the sheep at night. They sharing the work, foods,
troubles of weather all together. After a night of heavy drinking, Ennis breaking the rules
and sharing the tent with Jack. The cool weather and the loneliness in their body leads
them to a sexual incident. Although Ennis told Jack that it was a one-time incident but
their relationship ends up sexual and emotional. Unfortunately, Aguirre witnessed Ennis
and Jack on the mountain. Because of the storm, their summer together is being cut
short and they briefly fight and both are bleed. After they bring those sheep down,
Aguirre said that they ranch stiffs and left.

3. When the summer ends, they separate and live their own lives. Ennis married his
longtime fiancée Alma and gets two daughters, Alma Del Mar Junior and Jennifer Del
Mar. Besides, Jack moves to Texas and still drawn to boys until he meets, marries and
has a son with a rodeo rider girl who named Lureen Newsome, whose father owns a
business selling farm equipment in Texas and looking down on Jack.
Conflict
In 1967, Jack writes to Ennis and they managed to meet up after four years. Ennis
waited Jack for so long and when he arrived in Wyoming, both men passionately kiss
and this witnessed by Alma who becomes sickened by it. They went to a motel and
have a chat there, which Ennis realized that even they are falling in love but he
couldn’t abandon his family just like that. But still Jack wish that they could creating a
live together on a small ranch, but Ennis, who haunted by his childhood memory of the
torture and murder of a man who suspected of a homosexual behavior which this
incident causes him homophobic, refuses. They choose to stand it and continue to
meet for infrequent fishing trips like two or three times in a year.
Alma increasingly suspicious of their frequent ‘fishing trips’ up to Brokeback mountain
and finally Alma and Ennis divorce granted, the sixth day of November, 1975. Alma
married to Monroe, a guy who is the boss at the supermarket that she used to work at
and live a life with him and her two daughters. Ennis visits his family regularly but he
abandon the connection after Alma confronts that she knows what’s going on
between him and Jack.
Knowing that Ennis getting divorce, Jack is so excited and drives all his way from Texas
to Wyoming just to suggest that they should live together but Ennis refuses to move
away from his children. Jack feels so frustrated and for his physical needs he drives to
an underground gay bar and club in Mexico.
Ennis is struggling with his busy life and child support and meets a new girl, a waitress
who named Cassie Cartwright. This cause that Ennis meets less frequently with Jack.
Besides, Jack and Lureen befriend with another couple, Randall and Lashawn Malone.
It is suggested that Jack and Randall begin an affair behind their wife’s back.
At the end of a regular fishing trip with Jack, Ennis told him that their next meeting has
to postpone. Jack can’t stand it anymore and turns his emotion into anger. He even
told Ennis that he wish to know how to quit him. Seeing Ennis who also being so
struggling for their relationship, Jack lets and watches him go just like before. Ennis
promise to make their next meeting into November.
Resolution
Later, Ennis receives a postcard he had sent to Jack returned with a ‘Deceased’ on it.
He make a call to Luceen, she tells him that Jack was accidentally killed by a tire iron
while pumping up a flat. This reminds Ennis that the incident he used to tell Jack that
happened to his neighbor when he was a kid. He knows that it wasn’t just an accident.

4. Luceen also tells him Jack wished that his ashes could spread at his favourite place,
Brokeback Mountain.
Ennis travels to Lightning Flat, a place that Jack grew up, to meet Jack’s father and
mother, and offer them to bring Jack’s offer up to Brokeback Mountain. Jack’s father
refuses and decided to place it in their family plot. Jack’s mother allows Ennis to visit
Jack’s bedroom and he looking around the room that Jack had his childhood there. He
found two shirts, his and Jack’s, there are some bloodstain on it which caused by a fight
and worn by them at the summer back in 1963. He thought that he left his shirt on the
mountain but yet Jack kept it until now. The shirts are hanging together on a hanger,
folded into one another with Jack’s shirt over Ennis’. Ennis holds them up to his face,
silently burst into tears. He then brings the shirts with him and leaves.
Lastly, Ennis eldest daughter Alma Del Mar Junior visits him and tells him that she is
engaged. She asked for his blessing and if he could make it on her day of wedding.
Ennis asked if her fiancé loves her and she says yes, he then promise to attend her
wedding. Junior left and has her jacket still in his father place, Ennis goes to his closet
and place the jacket in it. At the right side of the closet, Ennis has the shirts of him and
Jack’s hanging on it. The shirts are still hanging together but now reversed, Jack’s shirt is
covered by Ennis’. Moving above is a postcard with a picture of Brokeback Mountain.
This seems like a sign of he will be protect not only Jack but also their loves and he will
not forget the happiest moment they spent together. Movie ended here with Ennis
speaking: “I swear……”