Topic > Brokeback Mountain - 1801

Setting "Brokeback Mountain Mori" begins in a mental institution, passes through a nondescript motel room and a tattoo parlor, and ends in the back of a police car. Brokeback Mountain never explicitly mentions whether Leonard has been in a mental institution (although some ambiguous clues indicate that perhaps he has). It also goes through motel rooms and tattoo parlors, but adds other locations, such as Natalie's house, the bar where she works, a diner, and the abandoned building where Leonard kills both Jimmy and Teddy. The "Brokeback Mountain Moors" narrative uses third-person limited narration to describe Earl's actions. While we focus on Earl's actions, we are not privy to his conscience. However, the italicized letters that Earl writes to himself are in the first and second person: “I don't know where you will be when you read this” (Desmond 2006, p.145) and “You can't have a normal life anymore” (p. 140 ). Brokeback Mountain follows this same narrative style. The color sequences follow Leonard closely, but we don't have a voiceover during any of the color scenes. It's a third-person narrative, with Leonard as the filter. (However, we get rare glimpses of Leonard's consciousness: his memories of his wife's life and death, the consideration of whether she might have diabetes, and a fanciful vision of having succeeded in finding her killer.) We get a first-person voice -over during the early black-and-white scenes, often describing in second-person terms how "you" handle such a condition. Introduction to Adaptation: The only way to make and understand film is to acquire the skill through experience or education. By doing without knowing the rules of the game, maybe we achieve our goal, but it is very risky, so proper education can guarantee us to achieve our goal. As we see in contemporary cinema, most upcoming films are adapted from different media, based on everything from comics to novels and even short stories. They tell and retell stories through different mediums because we interact and re-interact with stories. So to understand the film and how they made it, you need to understand how literary expression in particular informed, extended, shaped, and limited it. The literary expression of the century reveals the influence of cinema in its structures and styles, themes and motifs, and philosophical concerns. In the adaptation discussion, we look at the film from a different perspective, how faithful we were to the original source which is usually a novel or a short story.