"I think Brokeback is Brokeback." "It`s an abstract idea." "I like the faste of that sound, Brokeback Mountain." "He`s constantly, constantly inside your character`s head... and inside the movie, the story." "it consumes him." "What Ang is doing with it is... is very...." "It seems almost quiet in a way." "It`s very dynamic, very dramatic." "You trust him completely... and so anything he tells you, you don`t ergue, because you know he`s right." "(Ennis) ...back in `63." "(Anna Faris) I admire him so much... for the variety of film that he does... and the emotional quality of his films." "I think that his definitely he perfect director to tell this important story." "He is a fantastic director." "I love his movies." "He always does very different things." "But they do have this wonderful emotional throught-line." "It needed to find that person who was gonna make it into the...." "Kind of, like, take it to a metaphisical level... rather than just play it on, just, this is a story about two gay cowboys." "it had to be about, really about love, you know." "I think there`s no better person to do that." "Old Brokeback got us good, don`t it?" "What are we gonna do now?" "I doubt there`s nothing` we can do." "Ang was always the right person to direct this movie." "From the minute I read the screenplay, Ang was the guy." "It just happened that I was so beat up... from production for the past 10 or 15 years... physically I was kind of... recovering from making all those big movies." "At the end of that I thought..." "I will either retire or take a very long break." "At least for a year." "(Lee) And one day I asked..." ""What happened with Brokeback Mountain?" "Have you made it yet?"" "I was glad that nobody ever made that movie." "And it still was available at that time." "So before I Knew I could phisically do it I jump on right away." "Historically, Ang`s movies have had a wide scope... and a very narrow scope at the same time." "You know, you`ve got Crouching Tiger... that takes place over a wast landscape... but the stories are very intimate." "The Ice Storm is the wast landscape of suburbia." "And his sense of emotion, his intuitiveness about that..." "I think it makes him very good." "The characters of Brokeback Mountain are very similar... to the characters from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." "They are in an impossible place... but they have to be in that place." "They have to live in that place... to the fullest of their ability." "I always like making dramas which is about conflict." "You put different ingredients which is in conflict with each other ... through which you exemine humanity." "to me the dramatic core... is to find that Brokeback Mountain, so to speak." "It is elusive." "It is romantic." "it is something that it hits you... that you keep wanting to go back." "(Michael Costigan) He saw in it... what I think you`ve seen in a lot of Ang`s films, which are...." "These are characters, these are people... who are, absolutely, extensions of where they`re from... and are products of their environment." "Man, that more words than you`ve spoke in the past two weeks." "Hell, that`s the most I`ve spoke in a year." "(Lee) Then it`s a love story." "It everything to do with the culture... with the landscape, with nature." "Everything htey feel is private." "They have to privatize their feelings." "It`s precious." "It`s private, it`s... it`s something very special that they cannot articulate." "So that`s something so interesting to me." "Ang is all about dedail... and slight difference between one color and the other." "He does have a very good sense of composition." "And he`s very keen about the elements... being in the specific place where it`ll guide the eye of the spectator." "He`s such a master with the camera that, you know... the beauty of the shots... is almost equally as important as the interaction between the characters." "It`s been very exciting to see it come to the screen... and how he`s been capturing it... and, visually, what he`s brought to the piece." "If there`s one thing that Ang is about... it`s not about giving you a lecture... it`s not about being politicized... and telling you what the correct analysis of things is." "The one thing he is about is emotion." "He understands the emotions so completely... of the characters... that he transmits it through sort of physical means." "He`s able to let me know exactly what it is he`s looking for... by using a few words and a great deal of emotions somehow." "He emotes, in other words, what it is what he wants." "He really does most of his work with the casting." "And there`s the old saying in the acting world... that casting is pretty much 90% of it." "You know, once his cast the part then he lets the actor... go and create." "I`m spurrin` his guts out!" "Wavin` to the gigls in the stands!" "He`s Kickin` me to high heaven, but he don`t jackboard me!" "No!" "[clattering]" "I mean, I think he really trusts the actors." "I feel like he really trusts me, which really makes me feel empowered." "You know that if he says he has a shot, you know he has the shot... and it`s probably gonna be some of the best work you`ve ever done." "(Ledger) Ang`s a very sylent man." "He`s very selective about the information he gives you." "His attention to detail is microscopic." "He`s someone who constantly... puts you in this position of wanting to do better for him." "You come back and see us again." "(lee) So in my midlife I did comeback... and try to relearn how to make movies, enjoy making them... just find my life for filmmaking, feel healthy." "it was like and healing process." "So I did find that love." "(Äèàíà Îññàía) Ùäèí èç ìîèõ äðóçåé äàë ìíå Íüþ-Éîðêåð... ñ Ãîðáàòîé Ãîðîé è ðåêîìåíäîâàë ìíå ïî÷èòàòü ýòî." "Îí ñêàçàë, ÷òî ýòî äîâîëüíî õîðîøàÿ âåùü." "About two-thirds of the way through, I began to sob... and I sobbed all the way to the end." "It was so affecting." "It really is a, I think, a kind of gut punch, you know." "It just goes right to you and it doesn`t let you go." "Diana read ste story in the New Yorker like many, many other people... and insisted that I read it." "I can`t write short fiction and I rarely read short fiction." "But I did it." "I read it." "And I recognized...." "And my first reaction actually was, "I wish I had written it."" "`Cause it`s been laying there in the West for a long, long time... attraction between cowboys." "I said, "Well, do you think it would make a good screenplay?"" "And he said, "I think it might."" "I said, "Well, why don`t we write Annie a letter?"" "And he said, "Okay."" "So, that was pretty much how it started." "I was in a gym and I was doing the treadmill." "I was looking for something to read." "This was about, gosh, six, seven years ago." "And I saw a copy of the New Yorker magazine... and opened it up and there was a story." "I just started to read it." "Annie Proulx is a fabulous writer." "And I couldn`t finish the story during the exercise." "[chuckling] So I swiped the magazine, took it home and finished it." "I heard that Larry McMurty and Diana were writing it, and I thought...." "When I read it, I thought it`d be perfect for something for them to write." "Creatively, there are a few things... that I found particularly challenging." "First of all, two big writters." "That`s a lot of pressure." "They`re legendary writters." "And then, structurally, it`s very interesting, it`s very challenging." "It`s an epic short story... `cause the story covers a big territory... but it is a 30 pages short story." "It`s nobody`s business but ours." "You know I ain`t queer." "Me, neither." "When you take that short story and try to say..." ""How do we make it into a feature film"... it`s not simply that you just add on extra scenes... and somehow you get to the magical feature film length." "You have to take a short story and make it novelistic." "And that process proved to be incredibly detailed... although Larry and Diana made it look easy." "Every single character had to have... their own kind of world, their own world-view... somehow approachable in the course of the film." "You just have to figure out what to use and what not to use... and, of course, sometimes even with a novel, you have to make up things." "Because it`s not all there." "(McMurty) We used every bit of that story." "Virtually every sentence is used somewhere in the screenplay." "And it`s still only 50 pages of the acreenplay." "It`s only half of the screenplay." "So we did have to make up the rest." "We had to double it, essentially." "But Annie`s srory, the blueprint was really there... so we could take a single sentence... and just go." "And make a domestic scene of it." "Because what we added, essentially... was fleshing out the domestic life of the two guys... their marriages, their children, their troubles, et cetera." "The domesticity was suggested... the problems in it were suggested, but we fleshed it out." "This is my house, this is my child... and you are my guest." "Now you sit down... before I knock your ignorant ass into next week." "And the process...." "I mean, I think Larry and I complement one another." "We`re really very different from one another." "I mean, it`s clear just by the way we write." "He`s on a manual typewriter and a`m on a computer." "But he seems more interested in the women characters, certainly." "Oh, wait, hold on." "You don`t think I`m too fast, do you?" "May be we should put the brakes on?" "(Anne Hathaway) I read it and I was like, "Oh, wow."" "I always did recognize it as being the I love story that it is... as just being heartbreaking and very, very real." "I mean, just...." "The level of honestly that the characters express... and the dislogue in the story, that definitely appealed to me." "I left word for you with Steve at the ranch." "And you must`ve got those notes I left at your place." "I wanted to be a part of this movie... because the script was so beautiful." "I think the story is really incredible." "That`s something that you haven`t seen before." "Larry seems to feel that I have... more intuitiveness about the men than he does." "What if you and me had a little ranch somewhere... a little cow-and-calf operation?" "It`d be a sweet life." "I read it, I loved the script." "I thought it was the best screenplay I`ve read." "And I guess for me it`s a story of how love transcends all." "The first time I read it I just, like, was immediately drawn to the idea that... love stories were not told in this way... and it felt like the struggles... and the trials that it takes to actually be in love... and to keep it going, or...." "You know, that`s what it`s about." "[fireworks exploding]" "You wanna lose about half your fuckin` teeth, huh?" "(McMurty) We thought that we did a very precise script.... in which we got... as much as you could get in an adaptation... of what the author had put on the page." "We hoked up with Larry McMurty and Diana Ossana... to try to make the film... back when I was an independent producer... and we tried for a couple of years... and no one would pay much attention to us." "It was just not a film that felt green-lightable at the time." "Larry and Diana`s screenplay was known certainly in Hollywood." "It was known as one of thw great, great unproduced screenplays." "I think people were afraid of it." "So, it was no easy task to get the movie made." "But the hope was, if we make this movie, people will be impacted and affected... by these characters and by their story." "When we formed Focus Features, and suddenly..." "I and my partner, David Linde, were on the other side of the desk... and it was up to us to green-light it." "So we kind of held our breath and said, "Let`s go make it."" "After the short story, I got the chance to read the screenplay." "And it stayed with me." "I started thinking about making the movie right away." "I just know in the bottom of my heart... if I let this thing go..." "I`ll regret for the rest of my life." "You ever rodeo?" "You know, I mean, once in a while." "When I got the entry fee in my pocket." "Yeah." "Are you from ranch people?" "Yeah, I was." "It`s framed by the West." "It can be called a Western." "I don`t really think of it as a Western." "I think of it as a drama." "(Lee) Not so much the movie genre Western... which is a fictionalized environment." "It`s not the gunslingers... but more of Annie Proulx, Larry McMurty kind of territory." "Realistic Western." "Rural life in west of America." "(Ossana) The West is rich in character and experience." "It`s a very real, gritty, raw...." "We like that." "We like the reality of it." "It`s a film that pays very careful attention... to the specificity of the American west... as it really was and still is from the 1960s on through today." "Larry McMurty, Diana Ossana, and Annie Proulx... are enormously, enormously dedicated... to the idea of paying attention... to the smallest piece of verisimilitude they can find... to give the story the depth and the grain of reality that it needs." "Larry Mcmurty wrote to me... and warned me about the non-verbal culture in America... he says in some ways is harder to do than a verbal culture." "Our wedding will be June 5 at the Methodist church." "Jenny will be singing and Monroe is gonna cater the reception." "Oh, it`s a laconic culture, you know." "People..." "There, of course, there are people who babble in any culture." "But, by and large, cowboys are laconic." "They don`t say much." "They`re alone a lot." "They`re not real comfortable in, you know, social situations... in which there are five or six people to talk at the same time." "They tend to be alone with their horses." "(Lee) That`s the true America." "Tough people that come here, build their families, start anew." "They`re fough people." "But it is a story that`s rural." "It`s about the rural country people." "It is about people from small towns." "These two young men that are very poor... they`re not particularly educated... they don`t have a lot of prospects... they`re certainly not upper-class people." "Their main drive in life is survival." "They want to make enough money to buy a second shirt... or get a new hat, or feed thenselves." "Maybe get their truck fixed." "You know, their needs are very, very basic." "I wish I knew how to quit you!" "Then why don`t you?" "We are stewards of the story and we are pretty good stewards of it... and to me it`s still Annie`s." "It`s Annie`s story." "We stayed true to her writing... we stayed true to the characters... and who those characters are as people." "Our job in that regard is finished." "We`re sending it out into the world." "It`s like, I suppose, raising a child." "You hope the child is successful and is accepted... and that`s the best you can hope for." "It ceases to be yours." "It becomes..." "The world`s." "...the world`s." "Jack Twist." "Ennis." "When we made the picyure, we knew there was gonna be a core... of serious moviegoers who would want to see the picture... but we had no idea, of course, that it was gonna balloon the way it did." "It was a classical linear Hollywood story, the way it was told." "And yet, the fact that this was a gay love story..." "I thought, well, that`s very interesting... but I can`t imagine that that`s gonna be a very big success... in this ciuntry, at this particular time." "And obviously, I was wrong about that." "It`s a big step forward for gay themes in movies." "I mean, this is a movie that people saw." "You know, and people tolked about it, and it was up for awards... and it was really, I think, a big part of the public consciousness." "It`s controversial to someone who`s uncomfortable with the topic." "I understand why people call it controversial." "But I like a bit of controversy." "You know, bring it on." "When Brokeback Mountain is discussed... it`s often discussed in terms of where it falls... in the lineup of socially conscious Hollywood movies." "I do not believe that this movie was made primarily... to advance certain social attitudes." "It`s only because we are in a particular time, a transitional time... in the way that straight society views gay people... that we`re even talking abou this." "And I thing that 15, 20 years from now, or hopefully even 10 years from now... this discussion is gonna seem hopelessly anachronistick." "Brokeback Mountain is a very conventional film... a very conservative film." "It`s a beautiful Western by a consummate director." "It`s a beautiful script by consummate writers." "It`s a beautiful story by a Pulitzer Prize winning writer." "The only thing that really makes this pop up... out of a genuinely mainstream kind of product... is the fact that it`s about a love story between two men." "And then, suddenly, that shifts the way that everybody sees it." "As human beings, we tend to put labels on everything... as a way to, sort of, categorize and feel safe about something." ""That`s script is about gay cowboys." ""Well, I`m not gonna give that thing the time of day." ""I`m not gonna waste my time on it."" "It`s a way to reduce it to something very simple... when it is something that isn`t simple at all." "At one point, I remember somebody saying to me..." ""You know, Diana, this movie would get made a heck of a lot faster..." ""if it were about a man and a woman."" "That wouldn`t make any sense." "We wouldn`t make that movie." "(Jake Gyllenhaal) We`ve all kind of been told this cliche... for so long, you know... and it`s always this, sort of...." "A heterosexual love story is always, like... guy gets girl, guy loses girl, guy has to get girl back... and then they live happy ever after." "And I think that gives this weird notion of what love is supposed to be." "And when I read this, it felt like... the struggles and the trials that it takes to actually be in love... and to keep it going, that`s what it`s about." "(Michael Costigan) Thr script absolutely killed me." "It absolutely got inside of me." "It was not what I had thought it was going to be like... what it would be about." "I was unaware that it was more than just a relationship... between these two guys." "But it was a relationship also with Alma... with these other characters whose lives all are affected... by what harrens when love enters this portrait." "To me, Brokeback Mountain is a love story." "That`s how I read it, how I`d like to make it." "Of cours we got a gay theme here... and all the complexities in a human relationship... gender issues, society issues and the whole Western thing." "But to me, it`s a taste of love." "It`s very hard to articulate that with literature." "For me, it`s impossible." "I have to make a movie." "(man 1) Background!" "B-mark." "(man 2) Action!" "[sheep bleating]" "You ranch stiffs, you ain`t never no good." "You heart random gossip during the production phase." "And it was always a bit puzzling, "Why are they making this movie?"" "And Ang Lee, he`s got a hard career to chart, you know..." "The Ice Storm, The Hulk." "You say to yourself, "No, wait, a Westwrn?" ""And it`s with these two characters who get involved?"" "So there was just a bunch of questions." "That`s all you had." "You didn`t get much real intelligence about the movie when it was in production." "I`d heard about the film being made, of course." "Lots of us have been following the anticipation... the excitement, the paranoia." "You know, "What was Ang Lee gonna do with this film?" ""What were Heath and Jake gonna do with these roles?"" "The gay press had been full of it." "There was a lot of suspicion that they were going to heterosexualize the story." "It`s just a story of love... and that love exists in all shapes and sizes and forms." "And that it does transcend all." "We recognized it as it being a beautiful story... and one that should be told." "You know, one of the funny things was, as we were making the movie... there was anenormous amount of Internet web chatter... about how the boys aren`t gonna kiss... and it`s gonna be this disaster, they`re gonna sanitize the whole thing." "I said, "You know what?" "Just let it sit." ""Let`s not get into extraneous arguments..." ""or, you know, kind of press publicity stuff right now." ""Because when people see the movie, then they`ll know."" "We would rather the movie never get made than to be made dishonestly... if it weren`t made true to who these characters were." "[sheep bleating]" "(female narrator) It`s a movie that`s been crying out to be made." "Brokeback Mountain is a fresh take on the great American love story." "Two guys living together?" "No way." "Action!" "Director Ang Lee has Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal... going where few Hollywood leading men have gone before." "It`s nobody`s business but ours." "I`m always looking for films that go after an emotional journey." "I always like to try and bare my soul a little bit." "(Jack) Son of a bitch." "Now, the inside story on a film that`s been dubbed "the gay cowboy movie"... but is definitely so much more." "When you find a cliche, you`ll always find something more complex at the bottom of it." "Okay, you take the shot there." "We`ll go behind the scenes... and discover the trials of shooting in the great outdoors." "We`d rough them up to make them be realistically ranch hands." "The mysterious ways of director Ang Lee." "(Gyllenhaal) Annie and I were rehearsing... and Ang goes, "You go together like milk and water."" "And I was like, "I have no idea what that means."" "And the real story of the most tolked-about kiss in recent movie history." "It`s always awkward doing love scenes in movies... whether it be with a guy or with a girl." "Casts and crew reveal all about this cinematic labor of love." "It`s a universal and unique American love story." "It`s shocking." "You forgetthat movies could be this raw." "[grunting]" "Next, on the Logo Movie Special, Brokeback Mountain." "[whooping]" "Yeah!" "It`s easily one of the most highly anticipated films of 2005." "Brokeback Mountain is an epic American love story... told with stunning cinematography... and what may very well be career-defining performances." "[whistling]" "Oscar-winning director Ang Lee`s latest masterpiece... was based on the short story by Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx." "A heart-breaking tale of impossible love." "One of the things we said from the very beginning was..." ""We`re not gonna make a movie ¤¤¤¤ ¤ ¤¤¤¤¤..." ""which shies away from what this movie is about."" "Which is, at its heart and soul, a love affair between two men." "Jack Twist." "Ennis." "The film begins in 1963 and follows the complex romance... between a Wyoming ranch hand and Texas rodeo cowboy... played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal." "Two young guys meet on the job." "They`re ranch hands, herding sheep up on Brokeback Mountain." "It`s a mountain where they`re alone and they`re private... and no one knows what`s going on." "As much to their surprise as to the audience`s they fall in love." "[harmonica playing]" "You`ll run them sheep off again if you don`t quiet down." "(schamus) I think everybody in their lives... probably has made one connection with somebody... that pulls you completely out of yourself." "And that`s what happens to this two guys." "It`s a sort of a yin and a yang and the two create a whole together." "It`s very forbidden for them, both, you know,in society and especially in Ennis` mind." "This is a one-short thing we got goin` on here." "It`s nobody`s business but ours." "They push each other`s buttons a lot." "Shit." "(Anne Hathaway) But they also understand each other in a way... that they`ve neverexperienced with anyone else." "Well, I guess I`ll see you around, huh?" "Right." "And at the end of the summer they leave each other." "Each go off and get married." "I now pronounce you man and wife." "They each have families, children, wivws." "Jack fuckin` Twist." "Five years later they meet again and the love is even more intens." "And they begin a 20-year affair which they keep hidden from everyone." "(Ang Lee) Ennis Del Mar, played by Heath Ledger... he`s your typical Western character." "Very brooding, doesn`t speak much... because he has a lot of fear in who he is." "Two guys living together?" "No way." "Ennis is battling the beliefs of his father... and how that inhibits him from expressing or loving." "Ennis is somebody that keeps his feelings so frapped and pushed down... that it`s almost like when he talks... the words are punching themselves out of his moth." "Now, we can get together once a while... way the hell out in the middle of nowhere, but...." ""Once in a while."" "Jack Twist, played by Jake Gyllenhaal... is the knowingly romantic character embracing love... wanting to make a change, very optimistic." "You know it could be like this, just like this, always." "He`s the character who keeps saying..." ""I wanna make this work, I wanna keep this going... despite whatever obstacles that are thrown in their way." "Jack, I don`t know what to say." "(female narrator) Jack and Ennis try to live straight lives... but as their relationship secretly continues... they find themselves very much at odds with the world around them." "And, Jack, this is my wife, Alma." "Howdy." "Hello." "That world is really the women." "(Schamus) It`s Michelle Williams and it`s Anne Hathaway... and Linda Cardellini." "All these wonderful actresses... who embody all the other tragedies that are going on... as this msin story unfolds." "(female narrator) The heart-breaking impact begins... when Ennis` wife, Alma, played by Michelle Williams, sees Ennis and Jack together." "I think in Alma`s world and in her time... the world "gay" didn`t exist." "And so that kiss that she`s a witness to only leads to more confusion for her." "It`s not the end of anything." "It`s only the begining of more questions." "(Diana Ossana) Her world is literally turned upside down... when she figures out that her husband... is actually in love with someone else and it`s a man." "This is the great betrayal of her life." "Jack Twist." "Alma." "Jack "Nasty"!" "(female narrator) After Ennis and Alma are no longer together..." "Ennis dates local waitress Cassie, played by Linda Cardellini." "Cassie comes into Ennis`life after all his disappointments... after really, kind of, messing the whole thing up." "And she represents maybe a chance that he could somehow make it work." "As you see them through time, she really falls in love with him... and ends up having a broken heart because he can`t really give his heart to her." "Ennis, girls don`t fall in love with fun." "[crowd Cheering]" "(female narrator) Anne Hathaway plays Jack`s wife, Lureen... a tough Texas cowgirl turned businesswoman." "Lureen begins as a kind of fiery predator." "She`s a Texan rodeo queen, and as life goes on... it turns out thah she and her husband... don`t have as much love for each other as she thouth." "Theirs was a marriage of convenience." "So she winds up becoming a little embittered." "(Lureen) It`s funny, isn`t it?" "Husbands don`t never seem to wanna dance with their wives." "(female narrayor) Bringing this multilayered story to life wasn`t easy." "The process began in 1997... when Brokeback Mountain, the short story, was published in the New Yorker." "F great short story is like a gut punch." "Basically Annie Proulx comes up, tickles you under the chin... and then just pulls back and just knocks you out." "(female narrator) It grabbed the attention... of Pulitzer Prize winning author Larry McMurty... and his writing partner, Diana Ossana." "(Ossana) As soon as I read that story..." "I knew that this was a story... that would affect many, many people." "And I felt very compelled to get it out into the world." "My first reaction actually was, "I wish I`d written it."" "(female narrator) The screenplay was well received... but Larry and Diana couldn`t get anybody to actually make it." "It had been circulating in the business... and was already know as the greatest,unproduceable screenplay ever written." "It was the most perfect script I`d ever read... and I think that everybody shared that sentiment." "It was beautiful and flawless." "(female narrator) Enter director Ang Lee." "When I read it, I was shoked up and very inspired... and very much wanting to make the movie because it was written like a epic." "[sheep bleating]" "(Gyllenhaal) As soon as Ang came onto the projectt..." "I was like, "I`ll do anything to be in this movie"... `cause I knew what he would strive for." "His movies are extraordinary." "Action!" "(Ennis) Oh, yeah?" "I thought you said that mare couldn`t throw you." "(jack) She got lukky." "Larry and I had envisioned Heath in hte role of Ennis for several years." "The level of complexities within the character of Ennis were irresistible." "I knew that in order to portray Ennis Del Mar..." "I would have to matureas an actor, mature as a person." "For the guys, basically I didn`t audition them." "I know their work." "I know they`re fine actors." "It`s not a hard decision." "Very quick decision." "[crowd cheering]" "(female narrator) After seven years of struggle and false starts..." "Brokeback Mountain had its cast in place... and was much closer to becoming a reality." "I was very excited by the prospect of something like this entering the mainstream." "Especially with Jake and Heath attached to it." "(leadger) I think mainly... the anxieties were living up to the beauty of the story." "It was a perfect script and a perfect director attached to it... and I didn`t want to be the one of screw it up." "[crowd cheering]" "(female narrator) Once director Ang Lee... cast Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal... as the leads in Brokeback Mountain... he put the two rising stars to work." "Hard work." "[people yelling]" "Ang really is a stickler for research and detail." "His actors should be students of the period and students of the culture." "He really insists on it." "(man) Ready, sir?" "Yeah." "All set up front?" "(female narrator) First off, Heath and Jake had to learn all about ranch life." "Heath and I went to cowboy boot camp." "We`d rough them up to make them be realistically ranch hands." "(Shamus) They did everything." "The riding and the wood chopping and the making camp and the herding." "They did it all." "I really didn`t know anything about horses." "Heath knows tons about horses and he was kind of, like, just walking through it." "Jake should be a little bit ahead of Heath." "I know how to ride a horse." "I grew up in Western Australia." "There`s certainly a lot of ranch hands." "And they all kind of walk, talk and speak the same." "I kind of knew how to fit into these shoes." "You wanna watch it here." "That horse has a low startle point." "They really wanted to own these parts... and they fought hard to kind of physically embody and be those characters." "[horse whinnying]" "(female narrator] The men weren`t the only ones... who got in touch with their rustic sides." "(Hathaway) I prepared for Lureen... by taking horseback riding lessons." "I actually trained for two months before I got onto set." "If I do say so myself, I got good." "(man) Nice." "I flew into Billings, Montana and met the dialect coach there, Joy." "In Texas, we say, "Thank you" K-E-W, "Kew."" "(Williams) We had a rental car." "We went through Woyoming and we tooled around... looking for all these towns that we mentioned in the story... and we just watched people and listened to people." "(female narrator) While the actors were becoming one with the land... the crew scouted locations... to capture the feel of Woyoming cowboy country." "Usually I fation my movie in my head while I was doing location scouting." "Start imagine your scenes and gradually you start to see the movie." "We wanted to avoid the notion of the quaint Western town." "These were economically depressed towns that these characters inhabited... and we wanted to express that in the locations and in the sets... and contrast that to the freedom of the mountains." "(female narrator) Cast and crew headed north of the border to Calgary... to begin making Ang`s vision come to life." "All right, hold it there." "Okay, you take the shot there." "Ang is a beautiful, beautiful person." "A complex, quiet, mysterious Character." "There`s a real benevolence in the way he makes his movies." "[fireworks exploding]" "So you think that the people would be...." "Elderly..." "Elderly." "...or more righteously looking." "He once said that he`s more comfortable in the lives he`s portraying... the stories he`s telling than in his own." "And you really feel that in the level of investigation... he takes into his projects." "Action!" "(cardellini) Ang Lee is great and getting these performances..." "I think, because he`s so specific." "(man) Playback, please." "Checking the gate." "He doesn`t say too much but when he does... it`s somewhat kind of poetic profound." "(Williams) He`s sort of a nonverbal communicator." "I remember him holding my hand a lot... or looking in my eyes and sort of making faces... but there weren`t really a lot of words exchanged." "Annie and I wererehearsing for one of our scenes together... and Ang goes, "You know, you go together like milk and water."" "Annie was like, "Oh, yeah." "Beautiful, totally, totally."" "And I was like, "What does that...." "I have no idea what that means."" "[laughing] [whooping]" "(female narrator) Ang grew riveting performances out of his cast." "It didn`t hurt that no matter which actors happened to be on set that day... they were all talented rising stars." "It was wonderful working with Jake." "There is no competition in him." "He`s there to help everyone around him make a good movie." "Heath`s the kind of guy who wears his heart on his shoulder, you know." "He`s very quiet and really sensitive in a lot of ways." "I figured I could drop the girls off with you." "Ennis." "Michelle is an incredible actor." "Incredibly professional, incredibly focused and deep... and we really enjoyed working with each other." "[laughs] Obviously." "[both laughing]" "Heath took care of not only himself but everybody around him... making sure that everybody had a creative environment to work in." "I ain`t afraid." "[people laughing]" "Jake Gyllenhaal`s an actor`s actor." "When you act with him, he really is there to help you... and catch you and push you when you need to be pushed." "It was like a partnership." "She was a great teammate." "Totally great teammate." "(female narrator) Although they all made it look easy... the Brokeback team had to deal with some challenging obstacles." "Watch your lens there, guys." "I mean, we shot at like the highest point in Alberta." "I guess it`s easier for the actor `cause we just sit around in chairs." "I`m sure it was really tough for the crew lugging all the equipment and stuff." "Roll it." "(Gyllenhaal) We spent a lot of time waiting, you know... sitting there alone." "I think it really helped the movie and helped the performances." "[bleating]" "(female narrator) While Heath and Jake were totally professional... there were some actors on set who just wouldn`t cooperate." "Camera in there, please." "[chucking]" "(Lee) The sheep was the biggest problem... and the Canadien goverment was very strict... about where we could put sheep... and it`s a big job to schlep up there." "I loved the sheep." "The sheep were great." "Stupidest animals, so dumb." "I mean, it was really kind of amazing how you could...." "You feel all powerful when you, like, stretch your arms out... and they, like, are terrified." "(female narrator) While Jake was off scaring the sheep..." "Heath had issues with a baby bear who just couldn`t staying the moment." "There`s a scene where I come riding round on the horse." "And there`s a little baby black bear sitting in the middle of the creek." "And it`s supposed to, like, go.... [roars] And kind of roar." "[roaring]" "And it would just sit there and lick its lips." "(female narrator) It wasn`t easy... but Ang`s cast and crew managed to survive the pesky animals... the uphill climbs and the boredom." "[exclaiming] [crowd cheering]" "(Gyllenhaal) I guess movie-making can be hard... but we`re making movies." "So it`s not all bad." "It`s okay, not nery sexy." "Can we do it again?" "[all laughing]" "(female narrator) On the set of Brokeback Mountain..." "Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger faced bad weather... an upredictable grizzly bear... [horse whinnying]" "and cowboy boot camp." "Beans is about all we got left." "But the most talked about part of shooting has to be the duo`s scenes." "Both Jake and I are very professional." "It was very important to the story that there was a level of intimacy." "There was no real way to approach it." "It`s always awkward doing love scenes in movies... whether it be with a guy or with a girl." "(Jack) Son of a bitch." "In that scene when we kiss, you know... it was like down to the second how it was choreographed." "And it was like, "Okay, I`m gonna grab you, then you`re gonna throw me into the wall." ""Then I`m gonna throw you into the wall."" "I was so worried abou, like, the love scenes being authenic." "[laughing] Trying to do it the best I can." "These are great actors." "They`ve been very brave." "Not just because they take on the gay part... but they`re so devoted to the characters." "See you for supper." "[horse snuffling]" "I`m always looking for films that go after an emotional journey." "I always like to try and bare my soul a little bit." "[laughs] I think it`s therapeutic." "I`m really proud to be a part of a movie like this." "It was truly a dream project to be involved with." "Ledger) It was just so great... to come across a story that hasn`t been told before... and this was one." "[both grunting]" "It`s a universal and unique American love story." "You`re not thinking about if it was a gay relationship or a straight relatiomship." "You`re really thinking about a heart-breaking situation." "[babies crying]" "With this movie, I think Ang puts his audience... in a kind of Muhammad Ali rope-a-dope." "Now you listen to me, you don`t know nothing about it." "[crying]" "Ang keeps coming at you." "You wanna live your miserable fucking life?" "Then go right ahead." "You`re still standing at the end of this movie." "Now you sit down, you old son of a bitch!" "But you have gone through one of the most incredible 15 rounds of of cinema ever." "[Jack grunting]" "(female narrator) Audiences and critics alike... fell in love with the film in its initial screenings." "Brokeback won the Golden Lion award at the 2005 Venice Film Festival... and was a huge hit at the Toronto and Telluride film festivals." "However, there are still those that want to oversimplify Brokeback... by labeling it "the gay cowboy movie."" "[Ennis whisting]" "They come up with terms like "gay cowboy movie"... because it`s easier to swallow... than talking about what the movie is really about." "When you find a cliche, you`ll always find something more complex at the bottom of it." "We`ve never been worried about the label of "the gay cowboy movie"... `cause we`ve always known what the movie is and it definitely transcends that title." "[whooping]" "I had a reporter come up to me at a press conference." "He said, "I just want to apologize for calling it that..." ""cause I really think that`s just such an oversimplification..." ""of what it really is."" "People, after seeing the movie, stopped calling it "gay cowboy movie."" "They call it "love story."" "Come on now, you`re sleepin` on your feet like a horse." "[moaning]" "(female narrator) Film fests and critical praise aside... the film making a huge emotional connection with audiences." "I`ve seen the response from a lot of people and I`m just blown away." "(Williams) People are so moved by it." "I mean, moved to tears... moved to beyond tears moved to writing letters... and thinking in a new way about their relationships." "I`m hopeful that there`s gonna be somebody out there... who gets to see this movie and says, "Wow, I thought I was alone." ""I thought that was...." "No one else had this."" "(Hathaway) There`s really nothing superficial about this film." "It really goes and hits you in a deep place... and I think that`s something that anybody that`s ever been in love can relate to." "I hope it sticks to them." "I hope it gets them thinking." "I hope it presents more questions than answers." "Well, nice to know you, Ennis Del Mar." "They sent me a script." "I read the script and I was, you know... fascinated by the script." "I thought it was incredible." "This was a really great love story, you know... that actually, sort of, went beyond any type of boundaries." "I called Gustavo, told him that Ang Lee was open to meeting with him." "Gustavo happened to be in New York... performing at Carnegie Hall." "I remember I took the subway, I was with my wife and I had my ronroco... my little instrument that we use in the mountains... in Argentina and Peru and Bolivia." "The first thing he said was, "What is that?" You know, for the instrument." "So I took out the instrument and I started playing." "And I played for a while, you know, and that sort of, like...." "That was our introduction." "It really wasn`t more than, "Hi." "Hi."" ""What is that?" And then, it was music, you know." "So after that, we starting talking about the movie, the story, the characters... and how he envisioned the music." "And what I was already thinking about it, and, you know, we found that... there was a lot of common ground." "We both thought about an acoustic guitar." "We both thought that strings could be a great addition, you know... because of the landscape and the open space." "It`s not only the land, but the sky." "You have to be satiafactory about what`s going on the sky... which you don`t see in a place like New York City." "You see buildings." "And the sky is no big, so complicated... and it`s grand and it`s free to shoot at." "I came back to Los Angeles, and I just started working on it right away." "(Lee) And two weeks later, he sent me seven songs... seven temp cues." "This is before I shot the movie." "And they all fit." "It`s great music." "Ang went on to tell me that actually some of the music helped him... envision what the West would have looked like." "(Santaolalla) I mean, we obviously, you know, re-record the stuff... and, you know, add the real strings." "But all the themes and sort of the sonic fabric... of how that music was going to be... was decided before actually the film was shot." "For this movie, which is poignant and stark... we need sparse music here and there, and his music fit just perfectly." "We`d had the pleasure of working with Gustavo here on 21 Grams at Focus earlier... and knew that he was an incredibly proactive music producer." "He`s produced over 100 albums... so he knows how to get things done and work with musicians." "And he`s a very tactile musician." "He`s somebody who actually feels the music... before almost hearing the sounds." "To see Ang`s first cut of the movie in whichhe used all the music that I gave him... and his genius on how to use that music... because I did all those themes and all that music... really based on the story and the characters and myfeelings about it." "In this movie in particular, I really wanted to expand the concept of silence." "I really love the use of silence in music." "Like what happenes in that begining theme, you know." "[Santaolalla mimicking guitar strumming]" "Then you`re holding there for the next note, right?" "So that longing, you know, in that moment, there isn`t a note played there, you know." "But yet, you know, you are sucked in into the music or the story... and that space, that silence, you`re feeling it as an audience." "[guitar strumming] [humming] [guitar strumming]" "And I lnow Ang even extended some of those silence... even made it longer, you know." "But I thought it applied really great to the story... but also gave you a sense of the silence that inhabit those characters." "I mean, those are not characters that, you know, talk that much." "Man, that`s more words than you`ve spoke in the past two weeks." "Hell, that`s the most I`ve spoke in a year." "These are not particulary expressive people but they are feeling people." "So their...." "And the exquisiteness of the emotion they`re feeling... is, you know, always at a pitch and a tenor... that exceeds their ability to communicate it." "(Santaolalla) I didn`t only have the chance... to do the scoring of the novie... but I also was invited to write some songs... and it really gave me an opportunity to show, you kmow, different things... that I think I can do, you know." "Each time we could not afford a song, he`d just write us a song." "Like that." "He`d come with the most unique and beautiful theme, like, in a flash." "(Santaolalla) Everybody pushed me to write some more stuff... and I ended up writing a whole bunch of songs for the movie." "So it was, you know, the scoring and the songs." "We wanted to have artists that were of the period... but still meaningful today." "We had some names in mind that we really wanted in... and also I think we got some new people coming in... that really contributed a big part of what the soundtrack is today." "Working with Gustavo was such an amazing experience." "Not because he...." "He`s obviosly a fantastic songeriter... and a beautiful composer... but he also has this ability to write a song... znd look at a song and work on a song... in such a direct, sirt of uncompromising way." "There`s a scene in the movie where we need a Patsy Cline-ish singer on stage." "The job was to find somebody that could look the part... look the period and sound right." "No one`s gonna love you like me" "No one else, can`t you see?" "No One`s Gonna Love You Like Me is a very straightforward love song." "And I think that`s it." "It`s very similar to the movie." "It`s as simple as you get." "I couldn`t find a better song to contextualize the whole sense of the movie." "No one, no one" "I, in particular, am a huge fan of Rufus Wainwright... and I really thought it was fantastic... if wwe could get Rufus to do a song for the movie, you know." "Actually, he ended up doing two pieces, an original one and King of The Road." "I guess the heart of that frack, for me, anyway... is the fact that I did it with my friend Teddy Thompson... who`s been a familly friend for my entire life." "And King of the Road, I think, was just an opportunity for us... to really just have fun... and sing something that, you know, we`d love to have written." "It`s been done a million times, but I think we did it in a...." "You know, doing it as duet, and, you know, I think we made it sirt of special." "(Wainwright) Yeah, inspiration and writing The Maker Makes...." "That song was based on the trauma that homosexuals go through in Middle America." "One more chain I break" "To get me closer to you" "The song is about a gay person... who decides to choose God over his sexuality." "`Cause that`s kind of what interests me most in the whole gay issue." "So that`s what I kind of honed in on." "I Don`t Want To Say Goodbye was one of the songs... that Gustavo and Bernie wrote... and Teddy`s voice seemed perfect for it." "I told him it`d take more than chewing gum and baling wire... to fix that pickup." "It`s not ornate and over the top." "It`s just kind of plan and honest... which just, kind of, complements the movie, I think." "Another artist that I felt... amazing, the opportunity to be close to something... that he was involved with, is Willie Nelson... which is somebody also I admire immensely." "His rendition of He Was a Friend of Mine is just gorgeous, you know." "He was a friend of mine" "Every time I think of him" "I just can`t keep from cryin`" "`Cause he was a friend of mine" "The sound of his voice, it just breaks your heart." "As a listener, I just think it`s beautiful." "That`s...." "And I wouldn`t think of it as a rebellious song." "I think of it just as a perfect song for that story." "It was, you know, kind of magic, how things develop... and the whole music aspect...." "I mean, my choice was Emmylou Harris, and we got her, you know." "I mean, so it was amazing." "She is definitely, you know... one of the great recognizable vocies of your age." "My mother, Kate McGarrigle, wrote a lot of songs for Emmylou... over the years, and so she would often come by the house... or spend a couple of weeks up in the country with us." "I`m a huge fan of Steve Earle, I mean, a big supporter." "I pushed to have him being part of the soundtrack." "The period we were going for was the `70s." "So I just put together what was a really good, rocking country band... and got everybody out at my studio in Nashville... and recorded The Devil`s Right Hand." "One, two, three four." "(Santaolalla) I think it was a great, great addition." "He`s truly a great American, I think." "The music, again, is one more layer and level... that just makes you enter this world in a way that you haven`t before." "You`ve listened and lestened to this music almost every day... for over half a year in making this movie." "I mean, seriously, It`s just been part of our experience." "It`s just like our life is...." "It`s our own life`s soundtrack." "(Santaolalla) Yeah." "Seriously." "Through Gustavo, it`s all quite seamless." "He provided the kind of bed to bring in all these disparate voices... and somehow it all feels together." "It was just a great experience... and everything turned out beyond everyone`s expectations." "I think the score should be timeless... in the sense that it`s not really related to a time frame." "But it`s more, you know, something...." "And I hope, you know, that applies to listening to the score 10 years from now." "Ang is a gentleman that likes to shoot who hi casts." "So, when hi casts an actor, hi likes to see the actor." "But we make it in a comfort level for the actor to do... and we work the actors and get their involvement in it." "this particular production... difinitely the talent on this show is doing the action." "There`s a couple of situations where we do have some doubles working for them." "But generally speaking, where all of our talent that`s involved... definitely are into it." "T.J. Bews put them into a cowboy camp organized by him... to bring them out to the ranch and have them do all the mennerisms... right from working with the dogs and the sheep to riding horses... and making sure that they`re comfortable." "[egging] [whistling]" "Only had one day with Hith, but hi`s pretty handy." "Already, hi`s worked on some horse shows, so...." "I don`t know." "I don`t worry about him too much." "It`s pretty much a natural thing for Hith." "I think hi grew up doing those things." "I knew how to ride a horse." "I know how to...." "All that comes...." "It`s kind of second nature to me." "I can split a log." "I kind of grew up on farms." "Hi can ride a horse like a professional." "Hi ride a horse like hi was born on one." "It was wery comfortable, I just slotted into that quite easily." "Heath, especially, has done lot of riding." "I would say from watching him... like in Australia and whatnot." "But they ride a different style... like they ride more English than Western." "and it`s not really so much taeching him... as just letting him know that there`s a different way of doing things... and, well, hi took to it real good." "(jake Gyllenhaal) I mean, Heath has known how to ride... since hi was a little kid... and hi`s done so many movies that were...." "You know, hi`s ridden a horse... so I feel safe anough around, you know, riding around Heath... that if something goes wrong... hi`ll be able to fix it, make it look better." "Well, Jake we know is a good young actor." "We need to train him to be a cowboy." "I threw him into a camp, you know,rough him up... [laughing] shopping woods and herding sheep." "(Gyllenhaal) I came here... probably about a month before we started shooting... and I started riding and learning how to rope a little bit... and playing with some sheep and that kind of thing." "So, yeah." "I mean, it was definitely cowboy camp." "There was...." "I mean, that`s we called it, cowboy fraining camp." "(Bews) I had about three days with Jake." "Guys sort of gave him a crash course of everything." "From riding to roping, packing mules... all those basic things that they gotta do." "And hi came along really well." "[chuckling] I`m not really a cowboy, you know?" "And I think that`s a great, great thing with this part... like, I`ve learned how to ride horses... and I`ve learned how to kind of wrangle sheep up... and I`ve learned how to do the cowboy things." "But my struggle with trying to do it for real is what I think Jack...." "Is sort of an essence of Jack, the character of Jack, you know?" "So I`ve kind of held myself back... because I think that hi`s trying really hard." "You know, like, that`s who Jack Twist is to me." "(male announser) Here she comes, ladies and gentlemen!" "[crpwd cheering] Oh, boy, look at her fly!" "This is Lureen Newsome from right here in Childress." "Anne Hathaway came out to the ranch as well... and did a lot of riding and some barrel racing... to get her worked up to her sequence." "(Jarrett) and she`d come already to this production with experience." "I`d been on a horse before and I`d learned to fake it on film... but I didn`t really want to do that for this one." "I wanted to get in there and do it." "So I took riding lessons." "But ultimately... barrel racing is very different than fun, gentle lopes around Central Park." "But I still give myself credit." "I can learn." "Because Skyler, my stunt double... she`s been doing it since she was, like, four." "(Jarrett) Anne`s double is ranked number six in the world right now... for high-school rodeo for barrel racing." "So, she had a head start." "I`ll catch up." "I will." "[laugthing] [crowd cheering]" "The rodeo cowboys that you see here... the bull riders we got doubling Jake, for instance, are bull riders." "They`re professional bull riders." "What we`ve done here, we`ve established Jake getting on a bull." "We`ve handpikked our bull that I feel comfortable Jake getting down on." "We`ve thought him how to work with his rope... put his hand in, basically get ready, then put the double in... and we got two different doubles." "We buck the doubles... and tonight, we`re gonna buck those doubles here." "(man) Let`s go, man." "[man exclaiming] [crowd cheering]" "(Jarrett) And we had his double work with him... and tolk to him through the sequence... and just make sure that, you know, hi`s doing it right." "[announcer chattering]" "To get Jake actually bucking, what we`ve done... we`ve brought in a mechanical bull and put him on the bull... and did the safety mats around, prepped him on it... and we shot it and hi was fabulous." "Jake did good." "I mean, hi`s a trouper." "Hi`s here to get it done and hi wants to look good." "So hi gets into it." "If an actor has a natural ability of what they have to do within the script... it brings so much more to the screen." "To anybody that wants to utilize Heath, Jake and Anne in the future... they definitely have a lot of talent to offer."