Brokeback Mountain

-- Love is a force of nature

Overview

• About the director -- Ang Lee

• About the movie

• The influence of the Brokeback Mountai

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• Its influence on language

Ang LeeFilms: 1992 Pushing Hands 1993 The Wedding Banquet 1994 Eat Drink Man Woman 1995 Sense and Sensibility 1997 The Ice Storm 1999 Ride with the Devil 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2002 The Hire 2003 Hulk 2005 Brokeback Mountain 2007 Lust, Caution

Awards for Brokeback Mountain

• Academy Award for Best Director

• National Board of Review Award for Best Director

• BCFA Critics’ Choice Award for Best Director

• Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best

Director

• New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director

• San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director

• BAFTA Award for Best Direction

• Golden Globe Award for Best Director – Motion Picture

• Director Guild for America Award

Brokeback Mountain• A from the short story “Brokeback Mountain” by

Annie Proulx

• A romantic story between two men in America West

from 1963 to 1983

• Main characters: Ennis (Heath Ledger)

Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal)

Influences of Brokeback Mountain

• Cowboy has a new image • The growth of gay acceptance : Inspires legislators to propose gay-friendly legal

• A cultural phenomenon Offered up 38 million Google hits in 2006

At the top list of Hollywood Words at Google Brokeback-inspired story in talkshows

• Controversy• Elements in Movies : Scary Movie 4,

Night at the Museum

Influences on Language

• Brokeback : Something that has questionable masculinity

• Cowboy

• Climb Mountain

• “X-back Mountain” : Buckback Mountain,

Heart-Broke-Back Mountain

• I wish I know how to quit you.

• I ain’t queer.

~ Thank You ~