Brokeback Mountain - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Brokeback Mountain or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Brokeback Mountain

[camila]

Focus Features was able to recoup its 14 million dollar budget by selling the overseas rights to the film.

[alyssa]

By 2010, this film was on many critics' and publications' "Best of the Decade" lists, including Peter Travers, Entertainment Weekly, The London Times, The A.V. Club, Time Out New York, and The London Telegraph.

[jesse]

The song Jack plays on his harmonica is "He Was a Friend of Mine", the same song Willie Nelson sings during the closing credits.

[bernice]

Heath Ledger declined to go to the one month cowboy camp that had been organized, as he had grown up on farms in Western Australia. Jake Gyllenhaal was required to attend, however, as he needed "roughing up".

[wesley]

Afraid that Anne Hathaway's previous films The Princess Diaries (2001) and Ella Enchanted (2004) would work against her during auditions, the Casting Director introduced Anne to Ang Lee as a New York City Broadway actress. Ang Lee hadn't seen any of Anne's nor Michelle Williams's previous works before he auditioned, and subsequently cast them in the film.

[morris]

The Guardian's November 2007 obituary for Costume Designer Marit Allen reported that she brought a book of Richard Avedon's 1950s and 60s photos of the American West with her to her first meeting about designing the clothes for this film, and she used that book to help decode what the obit called the men's "subtle dress codes". Interestingly, without having spoken to one another, several of the principal crew used the book as a reference. During production prep, the screenwriters had also suggested the book as a visual reference, and it was, in fact, used by the production design and make-up crews as well.

[claude]

According to an interview that Heath Ledger gave to the Philadelphia Inquirer's Steven Rea, there was a sequence that was filmed for the movie in which Jack and Ennis help some hippies get their car out of a river. According to Ledger, the scene took three days to shoot, and was disliked almost immediately by everyone involved. The scene was written by James Schamus as an attempt to show Jack and Ennis in a heroic situation, but it does not appear in Annie Proulx's original short story, the published screenplay, or the final cut of the movie.

[liam]

The first film to win Best Director at the Academy Awards, Directors Guild of America Awards, BAFTA Awards, Golden Globe Awards and Critics' Choice Awards.

[phyllis]

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

[ivan]

The only film that year to be nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress Oscars.

[duane]

As of 2018, features Jake Gyllenhaal's only Oscar nominated performance.

[victoria]

The poster for the film was deliberately styled to resemble another romantic epic, Titanic (1997).

[ivan]

Ang Lee recounted in several interviews that when Michelle Williams needed to film the scene in which her character is devastated to discover that her husband is involved with another man, she urged Heath Ledger (her off-screen, as well as on-screen, love interest) and Jake Gyllenhaal to intensify their kissing.

[beth]

Heath Ledger would go on to work with Maggie Gyllenhaal, the sister of co-star and friend, Jake Gyllenhaal, in The Dark Knight (2008).

[terry]

Anne Hathaway mentioned in a 2015 Out Magazine retrospective of the film that she was originally sent the script with the role of Alma Beers in mind, but after she read the screenplay she decided that she wanted to audition for the part of Lurleen Newsome instead.

[riley]

Jake Gyllenhaal (Jack Twist) and David Harbour (Randall Malone) work together again in "End of Watch" (2012).

[linda]

Randy Quaid's younger brother Dennis Quaid stars in The Day After Tomorrow (2004) along with Jake Gyllenhaal.

[cassandra]

Although Anne Hathaway learned how to barrel race, the insurance company insisted that a stunt double perform on film.

[bernard]

Brooklynn Proulx, the child actress who played Jenny at age 4, is not related to E. Annie Proulx, the author of the original short story on which this movie was based, even though they share a relatively uncommon last name.