FILM · 2005 · CANADA

Brokeback Mountain

Directed by

Ang Lee

Runtime

134 min

Studio

Focus Features, River Road Entertainment, Alberta Film Entertainment

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In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

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13 Interesting Facts About Brokeback Mountain

1. #002

   Jake Gyllenhaal is the godfather of Matilda Ledger, the daughter of his co-star Michelle Williams and Heath Ledger.

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2. #003

   Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams met and fell in love on the set of this film. Shortly before its premiere, she gave birth to their daughter, Matilda Ledger. They separated in the fall of 2007, shortly before Ledger's sudden death in January 2008.

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3. #004

   Because Heath Ledger had grown up on farms in Western Australia, he refused to attend the month-long cowboy camp that was organized. Jake Gyllenhaal, however, had to attend because he needed the "roughing up."

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4. #005

   Asked whether he had any fear about playing a gay man, Heath Ledger said he was not afraid of the role, only that he was not mature enough to do it justice.

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5. #007

   Author Annie Proulx sent both Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger an original, signed copy of her story. When she signed Gyllenhaal's copy she wrote "To Jake…", but when she signed the copy she planned to give Ledger she wrote "To Ennis". After writing her personal message she realized what she had done and decided to leave it as it was. At a special screening at the Arclight in Hollywood, California, she felt Heath Ledger truly was Ennis. She left the signed copy that way because she felt the actor represented Ennis in every way she had imagined him.

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6. #008

   When Ennis finds Jack's and his own shirts hanging together in Jack's childhood closet, Jack had arranged them so that Jack's blue shirt was visible first and Ennis's light-colored plaid shirt was tucked inside it. In the end, when Ennis takes both shirts home to hang in his own closet, they are reversed, so that Jack's shirt is inside Ennis's. According to screenwriter Diana Ossana, changing the order of the shirts was Heath Ledger's idea.

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7. #010

   According to reports, Heath Ledger nearly broke his co-star Jake Gyllenhaal's nose while filming a kissing scene.

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8. #012

   During its opening weekend (shown in only five theaters in the US), the film broke the record for the highest per-screen gross of any non-animated film in history.

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9. #015

   Universal made the rare decision to release the film on DVD while it was still playing in theaters. It was also the first film to be released on DVD and downloaded on the same day.

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10. #017

    The film's poster was deliberately designed to resemble that of another romantic epic, Titanic (1997).

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11. #020

    In several interviews, Ang Lee said that when Michelle Williams had to shoot the scene in which her character is devastated to discover her husband's relationship with another man, she insisted that Heath Ledger (her on-screen and off-screen love interest) and Jake Gyllenhaal intensify their kissing.

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12. #021

    Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal were already friends before they began filming Brokeback Mountain.

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13. #022

    In the scene where Ennis ducks into an alley to be sick, Heath Ledger unexpectedly punched a wall and nearly broke his hand.

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