BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Screenplay

JACK'S ?$OTBER
Jack used to come hove every year, wen
afzer he was married 2nd with a famly of
his own.
( 3ause )
He'd come stay a week or two, help kls
daddy on the ranch, fix the gazes ar.d mok'
an5 all.
JOHN TiJIST
(angrily)
I can't cat no help out hare. Jack xed a
say, 'Ecr.is deL Mar,' he used a say,
'I'm goin' a bring him up here one a
these days and we'll lick this damn ranch
into shape.' He had some half-baked
notion the zvo a you vas goin' a nove up
here, build a cabin, help run the place.
( palise)
Then this spring he's got another fella's
goln' a come sp here with him and build a
olace and help run the ranch. some ranch
he~~hbor a h i from down in Texas. He's
goin' a split up with his wife a d come
back here.
(sarcastic)
So he says. But like most a Jack's
ideas it never come to pass.
XE SEE the color 5rain from ENNIS'S face, as:
150 FLASIIBACK: EXT: SIDE OF TEE R0.U: WiOMIMG: 3P.Y: PJE RETURY 150
O1iC3 AGAIN TO EIJMIS'S EARLIER FLASHBACK, SCENE 89
LOV? ANGLE - ENKIS 'S FATHER leads ENNIS and K. E . , EXNIS' S
older brozher, to the edge of an irrigation ditch. Cazera is
or. their backs and ENliIS'S FATHER'S head is oct of flame. As
KE HPFROACH the ditch, HE S3E tie toes of two bo~ts appear.
?line year-cld ENNIS and eleven year-old K.E. look down at
what was EARL'S CORPSE in the earlier flaskback.
KE SEE SNNIS, his little boy's face, fill with horror.
Then, unlike :he earli~r flashhack, iiE PAfj UP the body in the
ditc5.
But the bloodied face is not EARL'S: it is JACK.5.
I5 1 IIJT: TIU'IST IiOIlESTEAT): KITCHEN: DAY: 151
WE RETUtUJ TO EN?IIS'S face: HE RNOi3S and WE KNDW, now, that
it was the tire ircn. .. .