BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Screenplay

A;?'% slides over onto ENNIS'S lap, her legs across rhe seat
They kiss.
61 EXT: ;,TONING: HIGHiiTP-Y: SPRXI;: DAY: t 1
EIWIS, in a dozer-cap, shovels asphalt behind an asphalt
dumper. Sweat blooms from his T-shirt collar. Sagebr~sh
tall along the highway, swayinq in the ho: wind.
ENlJI.5 ' 5 co-worker, TIl.S!Y, a f st, bespectacled, annoyingly
lo~uacious middle-aged man with a bad case of plumber's butt,
works alongside hia.
Talks incessantly
ENNIS shovels.
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MY old lady's tryin' =c get me to quit
this job, says I'm geztin' too old a be
dcin' this.
(self-deprecating)
i told her strong backs and weak micds
run in my family. 2idn't think that was
too funny .
(lauzhs)
I told her kefps me fit. For huntin',
anyways. . .
TIFWY (cont ' d)
... 47 different species in Wyomin* alone.
Was tellin' Pat, 'no 1 ain't gonna eat
them, no way, mushrooms is poison,' but
he kept at me....
ROAC BOOS approaches.
TII4I.IY shuts up.
TIIWY shuts up.
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Pick it up, boys.
(to Tinny)
Del Har can't work a shovel and listen to
yocr cam yammerin', coo.
ENNIS, impassive, spits, wipes the sweat from his brow.
Conzinues to shovel.