Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 33. Chapters: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Sense and Sensibility, Brokeback Mountain, Hulk, Ang Lee, Lust, Caution, The Hire, Taking Woodstock, The Ice Storm, Ride with the Devil, The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman, Pushing Hands. Excerpt: Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee. It is a film adaptation of the 1997 short story of the same name by Annie Proulx with the screenplay written by Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry. The film stars Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway and Michelle Williams and depicts the complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the American West from 1963 to 1983. Brokeback Mountain won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was honored with Best Picture and Best Director accolades from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Golden Globe Awards, Producers Guild of America, Critics Choice Awards, and Independent Spirit Awards among many other organizations and festivals. Brokeback Mountain was nominated for eight Academy Awards, the most nominations at the 78th Academy Awards, where it won three: Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score. The film was widely considered to be a front runner for the Academy Award for Best Picture, but lost to Crash. Brokeback Mountain ranks 10th among the highest-grossing romance films of all time. In 1963, Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) are hired by Joe Aguirre (Randy Quaid) to herd his sheep through the summer in Wyoming. After a night of heavy drinking, Jack tries to interest Ennis in mutual masturbation; Ennis reacts in a confused way, initially rejecting Jack's advances, then turning him around and having anal sex with him. Although he warns Jack that it was a one-time incident, they develop a sexual...
