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By buE Dranitzke
Special to the Rappahannock News
“Brokeback Mountain,” the most Oscar-nominated movie of the year, received the top award for Best Director (Ang Lee), Best Screenplay and Best Music at the 2006 Academy Awards.
The Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community brings this epic love story set in the American West in the 1960s to The Theatre in Washington, Friday, June 16, at 8 p.m.
Set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Tfexas, the film celebrates geography and landscape. The plot is taken from a short story by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Annie Proulx (Shipping News) which was published in the New Yorker. Larry McMurty (Lonesome Dove, Last Picture Show) adapted the story to make the screenplay, stretching it out and filling it in to document the passing years, the sadness and loneliness between the time of adolescent idyll of “Brokeback Mountain” and the shocking conclusion of the story.
The story about a ranch hand and rodeo rider is simple. The time is 1963. Jack Twist, played by Jake Gyllenhaal (Jarhead) and Ennis del Mar, played by Heath Ledger (Monster’s Ball), meet while seeking employment with local rancher Joe Aguirre, played by Randy Quaid. They unexpectedly form a passionate and totally unexpected relationship. Not able to deal with their feelings, they go their separate ways and marry but their attraction brings them back together years later.
As Ennis, Australian Heath Ledger mumbles as inarticulately and evoca
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