Ennis Del Mar Articles

Heath Ledger's Ennis Del Mar, Jake Gyllenhaal's Jack Twist in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain Meditations on BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Part II: Ennis Del Mar – Iconic Film Character Moving on to another area of the film, I must add that Brokeback Mountain works just as beautifully from a purely cinematic standpoint. Let me analyze one short scene as an example of the brilliance of Ang Lee's [...]

Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain Meditations on BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Part I: Multilayered Love Story People make fun of Jack Twist's line, "I wish I knew how to quit you", but that line is heartbreaking for the honesty it conveys. He literally does. In many ways, Jack's love for Ennis has done more harm than good to him. And the same goes [...]

Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain As I sit here writing, I am finding it hard to gather my thoughts together. Most of this essay has already been outlined, and yet I’m still not sure if it fully expresses my feelings toward Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain. I realize that although there is a certain amount of objectivity that goes into judging the merits of a [...]

Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain (top); in Casanova (middle); with Matt Damon in The Brothers Grimm (bottom) A few hours ago, Heath Ledger was found dead at his home in New York City, possibly from an overdose of sleeping pills. He was 28. I'm not a fan of Brokeback Mountain, but the film, though only a couple of years old, has undeniably become one of [...]