BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Screenplay

ZhCK tends the fire. Drinks from a whiskey bottle
ENNIS, thorough and relentless about his chores, finishes
setting up the tent.
Sits down next to JACK on the edge of the platform as a vast
sunset turns the sky orange.
Pass a bottle of cheap whiskey back and forth.
JACK
(bitching)
That Joe Aguirre, 'sleep with the sheep,
no fire'. Shit.
(drinks )
Can't wait 'ti1 I got my o-wn spread,
won't have to put up with his shit no
ENNIS
I'm saving for a place myself. Me and
Alma, we'll be gettin' married when 1.
come down off this mountain.
(drinks )
You goin' up with the sheep?
JACK
Not tonight. Tomorrow. That Joe, he's
got no business havin' us do somethin'
that's against the rules.
EXT: SZOREEACK MOUNTAIN: DAY: EIWY MORNING: 15
JACK saddles up, in a pale world.
The mountain, misted, is the color of smoke, the high, grassy
plain invisible.
ENNIS cleans the breakfast plates by the fire.
JACX mounts his bay mare. She crwd-hops a little; he keeps
her under control.
Rides off, ENNIS watching him go.
EXT: BROKEBACR MOUNTAIN: DAY: ITONTAGE:
A. WE SEE JACK tending the sheep, a blustery day, the wind
combing the grass, drawing from the slit rock a bestial
groan.
E. E1:I.IIS cooking dinner, banded pebbles and cr~mbs of soil
casting pencil-long shadows in the late afternoon light.
( CONTI WED