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Brokeback Mountain The Rewatchables
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Brokeback Mountain

Picking Nits

Months of beans and a supposedly newborn baby looking four months old

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Approx. transcript time · 02:04:27Read transcript
  • Months of beans and a supposedly newborn baby looking four months old are criticized.
  • Alma Jr and the parents’ invitation are recalled; never opening the fishing equipment is foolish, though it reveals absorption and disregard for Alma.
  • What filled weeklong trips without fishing is debated; walks, Jack’s equipment, cards and board games are possibilities.
Brokeback Mountain The Rewatchables
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Brokeback Mountain

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Jack’s possible new relationship raises jealousy questions, but Ennis alone visits the parents and offers to take the ashes.

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Approx. transcript time · 02:14:42Read transcript
  • Jack’s possible new relationship raises jealousy questions, but Ennis alone visits the parents and offers to take the ashes.
  • Hathaway reportedly filmed knowing and unknowing versions of the death call; combining them preserves whether Lorraine knows the truth.
  • Jack, I swear is deliberately unresolved; the story describes an answer to a question Jack never asked.
Brokeback Mountain The Rewatchables
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Producer review

Loved it; the ending was the favorite and “Jack, I swear” was beautifully vague

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Approx. transcript time · 02:19:40Read transcript
  • The invited producer and his wife loved their first viewing; the ending is his favorite and Jack, I swear is beautifully vague.
  • The film’s box-office success is contrasted with a present environment where such material would likely become a television series.
Brokeback Mountain The Rewatchables
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Brokeback Mountain

Recasting Couch

Transcript-observed Ashton Coucher and Orlando Bloom, with chemistry essential

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Approx. transcript time · 02:22:48Read transcript
  • Chemistry is essential; an alternate2005 version with Ashton Coucher and Orlando Bloom is imagined.
  • More ordinary-looking men could fit the story, with McBride, Gillis and Plemons reconsidered; Ferrell and Riley carry too much comedy baggage.
  • Nathan Fielder is floated then rejected.
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