Shit.
You pair of deuces lookin' for work...
I suggest you get your scrawny asses in here pronto.
Up on Brokeback...
the Forest Service has got designated campsites...
on the allotments.
Them camps can be 3, 4 miles from where we pasture the woollies.
Bad predator loss if there's nobody lookin' after 'em at night.
Now, what I want is a camp tender...
to stay in the main camp, where the Forest Service says.
But the herder...
he's gonna pitch a pup tent on the QT with the sheep...
and he's gonna sleep there.
You eat your supper and breakfast in camp...
but you sleep
No fire, don't leave no sign.
You roll up that tent every mornin'...
in case Forest Service snoops around.
Yeah?
No.
No!
Not on your fuckin' life.
You got your dogs, your. 30-30, you sleep there.
Last summer I had I don't want that again.
You.
Fridays at noon, be down at the bridge...
with your grocery list and mules...
and somebody with supplies will be there at the pick-up.
Tomorrow mornin' we'll truck you up to the jump-off.
Jack Twist. Ennis.
Your folks just stop at Ennis? Del Mar.
Well, nice to know you, Ennis Del Mar.
My second year up here.
Last year, one storm, the lightnin' killed 42 sheep.
Thought I'd asphyxiate from the smell.
Aguirre got all over my ass, like I was supposed to control the weather.
But beats workin' for my old man. Can't please my old man, no way.
That's why I took to rodeoin'. You ever rodeo?
You know, I mean, once in a while.
When I got the entry fee in my pocket.
Yeah.
Are you from ranch people?
Yeah, I was.
Your folks run you off?
No, they run themselves off. There was...
one curve in the road in 43 miles, and they miss it.
So the bank took the ranch...
and my brother and sister, they raised me, mostly.
Shit, that's hard.
Can I? Thank you.
Don't let them stray.
Joe will have your ass if you do.
Only thing, don't never order soup.
Them soup boxes are hard to pack.
Well, I don't eat soup.
You wanna watch it there. That horse has a low startle point.
Doubt there's a filly that could throw me.
Let's git, unless you wanna sit around tyin' knots all day.
Oh, shit.
Can't wait till I get my own spread...
and I won't have to put up with Joe Aguirre's crap no more.
I'm savin' for a place myself.
Alma and me, we're gonna get married when I come down off this mountain.
Shit, that stay with the sheep, no fire bullshit.
Aguirre got no right makin' us do somethin' against the rules.
No more beans.
Damn. Shit!
I don't know. Something wrong?
Yeah, so what...
Why didn't we get the powdered milk and the spuds?
That's all we got.
Well...
Here's next week's.
Thought you didn't eat soup. Yeah, well, I'm sick of beans.
Too early in the summer to be sick of beans.
Come on.
Come on. Come on.
Hold on. Whoa, whoa!
Shit.
Whoa. Come back here!
Whoa there, whoa.
All right. Fuck it.
Okay, you bastard.
Where the hell you been?
Been up with the sheep all day, I get down here hungry as hell...
and all I find is beans.
What in the hell happened, Ennis?
I come on a bear is what happened.
Goddamn horse spooked and the mules took off...
and scattered food everywhere.
Beans is about all we got left. Got whiskey or somethin'?
Dumb-ass mule.
I can't believe that. God damn.
Let me see.
Shit.
Well, we gotta do somethin' about this food situation.
Maybe I'll shoot one of the sheep.
Yeah, what if Aguirre finds out, huh?
We're supposed to guard the sheep, not eat 'em.
What's the matter with you? There are a thousand of 'em.
I'll stick with beans.
Well, I won't.
Yeah!
Gettin' tired of your dumb-ass missin'.
Let's get a move on.
Don't want the Game and Fish to catch us with no elk.
Come on. Shit.
Yeah, I'm commutin' four hours a day.
I come in for breakfast, I go back to the sheep.
Evenin', get 'em bedded down.
Come in for supper, go back to the sheep.
Spend half the night checkin' for damn coyotes.
Aguirre got no right to make me do this.
You wanna switch? I wouldn't mind sleepin' out there.
That ain't the point. The point is, we both ought to be in this camp.
Goddamn pup tent smells like cat piss or worse.
I wouldn't mind bein' out there.
Well, I'm happy to switch with you...
but I warn you, I can't cook worth a damn.
I am pretty good with a can opener, though.
You can't be no worse than me, then.
Here you go.
You won't get much sleep, I'll tell you that.
Yup. Come on.
Shot a coyote up there.
It's a big son of a bitch. He had balls on him the size of apples.
He looked like he could eat himself a camel.
You want some of this hot water?
It's all yours.
Mmm.
I don't rodeo much myself.
I mean, what's the point...
of ridin' some piece of stock for eight seconds?
Money's a good point. True enough.
If you don't get stomped winnin' it, huh?
Yeah.
Well, my old man, he was a bull rider.
Thank you.
Pretty well-known in his day.
Though he kept his secrets to himself.
Never taught me a thing, never once come to see me ride.
Your brother and sister do right by you?
They did the best they could after my folks was gone.
Considerin' they didn't leave us nothin'...
but $24 in a coffee can.
I got me a year of high school.
That was before the transmission went on the pickup.
And then my sis left. She married a roughneck, moved to Casper.
And me and my brother...
we went and got ourselves some work on a ranch up near Worland.
Till I was 19. Then he got married.
And no more room for me.
That's how come me end up here.
What?
Man, that's more words than you've spoke in the past two weeks.
Hell, that's the most I've spoke in a year.
But my dad, he was a fine roper.
Didn't rodeo much, though.
He thought rodeo cowboys was all fuck-ups.
The hell they are.
Well...
There you go.
I'm spurrin' his guts out! Wavin' to the girls in the stands!
He's kickin' me to high heaven, but he don't jackboard me! No!
I think my dad was right.
Tent don't look right.
Well, it ain't goin' nowhere. Let it be.
That harmonica don't sound quite right either.
That's 'cause it got kind of flattened when that mare threw me.
Oh, yeah? Yeah.
I thought you said that mare couldn't throw you.
She got lucky.
Yeah, well, if I got lucky, that harmonica would've broke in two.
I know I shall meet you on that final day
Water-walking Jesus, take me away!
Very good. Oh, yeah.
My mama, she believes in the Pentecost.
Oh, yeah?
What exactly is the Pentecost?
I mean, my folks, they was Methodist.
The Pentecost.
I don't know, I don't know what the Pentecost is.
Mom never explained it to me. I guess it's when the world ends...
and fellas like you and me, we march off to hell.
Speak for yourself.
You may be a sinner, but I ain't yet had the opportunity.
Thank you.
Shit!
I'm gonna go up to the sheep now.
Give 'em hell.
No, I'm...
You can hardly stand. It's too late to go to them sheep.
Well, you got an extra blanket?
I'll just roll up out here, grab 40 winks...
and I'll ride out at first light.
You'll freeze your ass off when that fire dies down.
Oh, that's good.
You're better off sleepin' in the tent.
Yeah.
All right.
Ennis! What?
Just quit your yammerin' and get in here!
Come on, come on.
What are you doin'?
See you for supper.
Yeah. Come on.
Come on.
This is a one-shot thing we got goin' on here.
It's nobody's business but ours.
You know I ain't queer.
Me, neither.
I'm sorry.
It's all right.
Lie back. Come on.
Twist.
Your Uncle Harold's in the hospital with pneumonia.
Docs don't expect he'll make it.
Your ma sent me to tell you, so here I am.
Bad news.
There ain't nothin' I can do about it up here, I guess.
There's not much you can do about it down there, neither.
Not unless you can cure pneumonia.
God damn! Jesus!
Them sheep will drift if I don't get back up there tonight!
You'll get pitched off your mount in a storm like this.
You'll wish you hadn't tried it!
It's too cold! Close it up!
What are we supposed to do now, huh?
Get on in there and untangle 'em Chilean sheep out of ours, I guess.
Oh, where is it? Shit!
God, half the goddamn paint brands have wore off!
We gotta try. The least we can do is get the count right for Aguirre.
Fuck Aguirre! Oh, yeah, fuck Aguirre.
What if we need to work for him again? You think of that?
We gotta stick this out, Jack.
You'll run them sheep off again if you don't quiet down.
What are you doing?
Aguirre came by again.
Says my uncle didn't die after all.
Says bring 'em down.
Bring 'em down, why? It's the middle of August.
Says there's a storm comin', movin' in from the Pacific.
Worse than this one.
That snow barely stuck an hour. Huh?
Besides, that son of a bitch, he's cuttin' us out a whole month's pay.
It ain't right.
Well...
I can spare you a loan, bud, if you're short on cash.
Give it to you when we get to Signal.
I don't need your money, huh?
You know, I ain't in the poorhouse. Shit!
All right.
Time to get goin', cowboy.
Come here! This ain't no rodeo, cowboy!
Oh, shit!
Ennis. Ennis.
Come here. You okay?
You okay? Yeah.
Some of these never went up there with you.
Count ain't what I'd hoped for, neither.
You ranch stiffs, you ain't never no good.
Wanna give it some gas?
I can't believe I left my damn shirt up there.
Yeah.
You gonna do this again next summer?
Well, maybe not.
Like I said, me and Alma is gettin' married in November.
So...
I'll try to get somethin' on a ranch, I guess.
And you?
Might go up to my daddy's place and give him a hand through the winter.
I might be back.
If the Army don't get me.
Well, I guess I'll see you around, huh?
Right.
What the fuck are you lookin' at? Huh?
"And forgive us our trespasses...
"as we forgive those who trespass against us.
"Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
"For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, forever. Amen."
Under the powers vested in me...
I now pronounce you man and wife.
You may kiss the bride. And if you don't, I will.
You all right? No.
Stop!
No, please don't!
My old lady's tryin' to get me to quit this job.
She says I'm gettin' too old to be breakin' my back shovelin' asphalt.
I told her strong backs and weak minds runs in the family.
She didn't think that was too funny.
I told her it keeps me fit.
Mornin'. Mornin'.
Pulled in last night. Didn't want to wake you up.
Oh, no, I was just...
I thought I'd tell you before the Sergeant showed up.
Parking this trailer on the beach is illegal.
Yeah!
Well, look what the wind blew in.
Hi, Mr. Aguirre.
I was wonderin' if you was needin' any help this summer.
You're wastin' your time here.
What, you ain't got nothin'?
Nothin' up on Brokeback?
I ain't got no work for you.
Ennis Del Mar ain't been around, has he?
You boys sure found a way to make the time pass up there.
Twist...
you guys wasn't gettin' paid to leave the dogs baby-sit the sheep...
while you stemmed the rose.
Now get the hell out of my trailer.
How my girls doing?
All right. Jenny's still got a runny nose.
Ennis, could you wipe Alma Jr.'s nose?
If I had three hands, I could.
Come here. Come here. Oh!
Girls all right?
Yeah. Jenny stopped her coughin'.
I think I should take the girls into town this weekend.
Get 'em an ice cream. Somethin'.
Can't we move to town?
I'm tired of these lonesome old ranches.
No one's around for Junior to play with.
Besides, I'm scared for Jenny...
scared if she has another one of 'em bad asthma spells.
No, rent in town is too high.
There's a cheap place in Riverton, over the Laundromat.
I bet I could fix it up real nice.
I bet you could fix this place up real nice if you wanted to.
Ennis. Hmm?
I know you'd like it, too.
Real home, other kids for the girls to play with.
Not so lonely like you were raised.
You don't want 'em to be so lonely, do you?
Yeah.
Come here.
It ain't so lonely now, is it?
Are you sure the girls are asleep? Yeah.
Come here.
Ennis.
Let 'er rip and snort, boys!
Jack Twist, hangin' on for dear life!
And down he goes! Watch out there, fella!
He's comin' for you. Send in the clowns!
Okay, a fine ride by Mr. Twist. Shit!
Four seconds for him.
Give 'em a hand, folks, our very own rodeo clowns!
Give us a beer, Doug.
I'd like to buy Jimbo here a beer.
Best damn rodeo clown I've ever worked with.
No thanks, cowboy.
If I was to let every rodeo hand I pulled a bull off of...
buy me liquor, I'd have been a alcoholic long ago.
Pullin' bulls off of you buckaroos is just my job.
So save your money for your next entry fee, cowboy.
You ever try calf ropin'?
Do I look like I can afford a fuckin' ropin' horse?
Shouldn't we move a little closer?
No. Come on, let's don't. Jenny'll get scared.
Look at this crowd!
Bound to be a lot of pussy on the hoof in a crowd like this.
All swelled up with patriotic feeling...
and ready to be humped like a frog.
So, where do you figure the most pussy is at?
Las Vegas or California?
Hell, I don't know...
but if you make it between Montana and Wyoming, I'd take Wyoming--
Hey! You might want to keep it down, I got two little girls here.
Fuck you. Asshole.
Probably quit givin' it to his wife after his kids was born.
You know what that's like. Yeah.
Ennis, let's move. Let's just move, okay?
Now, I don't want any trouble from you.
You need to shut your slop-bucket mouths, you hear me?
You ought to listen to your old lady, then.
Is that right? Yeah. Move somewhere else.
What about it? You wanna lose about half your fuckin' teeth, huh?
Not tonight, bud. I'd sure rather not.
Here she comes, ladies and gentlemen!
Oh, boy, look at her fly!
This is Lureen Newsome from right here in Childress, Texas!
Come on, folks, she's gotta hear it, let's give her a big hand!
She's turnin' on two!
She's around three!
Come on, folks! Help her home!
Come on! Come on!
And the time is 16 and 9!
Here's Cheyenne Hodson from Cody, Wyoming!
Come on, girl!
She's headed around two!
Is there anybody here from Wyoming? Ma'am.
How about it, folks?
Come on, Cheyenne!
And her time is 17 and 2!
Here comes Scotty Griffiths, out of Lubbock, Texas.
Come on, Scotty!
Damn it! Let's give Scotty Griffiths a big hand, folks.
Better luck next time, cowboy.
Boy, I tell you, folks, what a heck of a way to make a living!
Next up is an up-and-comer!
Jack Twist from all the way up in Lightning Flat, Wyoming.
He's onboard Sleepy today! Let's hope he's not!
Okay!
There they go, folks! And look at Sleepy go, boy!
He's broke free today, folks! Come on, spin and spin and spin!
Oh, boy! Good ride, cowboy! Well, let's see what the judges say!
I tell you, folks, that sure looked like the winnin' ride to me!
You know that girl?
I sure do. Lureen Newsome.
Her dad sells farm equipment. I mean, big farm equipment.
$100,000 tractors, shit like that.
What are you waitin' for, cowboy? A matin' call?
No one's gonna love you like me
No one else, can't you see?
No one's gonna love you like me
No one, no one
No one else, can't you see?
No one's gonna love you like me
No one, no one
I know sometimes you felt
So lonely
I know
You felt so sad and blue
Oh, wait, hold on.
You don't think I'm too fast, do you?
Maybe we should put the brakes on?
Fast or slow, I just like the direction you're goin'.
You are in a hurry. My daddy's the hurry.
He expects me home with the car by midnight.
Come here, come here.
Hi, Monroe. Hey, Ennis.
Is Alma here?
Yeah, she's in the condiments aisle.
The what? Ketchup.
Thanks.
Your boy gonna play again this year?
Excuse us! Yeah, excuse me.
Hey, honey. Honey, what are y'all doing here?
Big hurry.
My boss called and, well, he wants me to go up to the ranch.
Mama.
I guess all the heifers must've decided...
to calve at the same time.
I figured I could drop the girls off with you.
Ennis, well...
I got a million things I gotta do here before I can leave.
I don't get off for another three hours.
Mama, I need crayons. Not now, Alma.
Ennis, please, you promised you'd take them tonight.
Alma, I can't afford not to be there when the heifers calve.
Right, it'd be my job if I lose any of 'em.
What about my job?
Okay, all right, I'll call my sister.
I'll see if she can take 'em. All right. All right.
You be a good girl for your mama, all right?
I'll be half the night.
Bring home some ground steaks if you think of it.
Come here. Oh, Alma, please!
Oh, boy.
Okay. Monroe, I'm so sorry.
It's okay. It's okay, Alma.
I'll clean this up just as soon as I call my sister...
to come get the girls.
Really, Alma, it's okay. I'll get it.
Alma, come with me. Watch your feet.
Alma.
It's just like my hand.
Honey, got a surprise for you.
Hey.
I got two whole boxes of formula for you.
You did?
120 cans. 120?
L.D., where did you put 'em?
Oh, hell, back seat of the car, where I left 'em.
Rodeo can get 'em.
L.D., I can already see who little Bobby looks like.
Good job, little girl.
He's the spittin' image of his grandpa.
Isn't he just the spittin' image of his grandpa?
Yeah.
Look at those eyes.
Hey.
Hey, honey.
Hey, Ennis, you know somebody, name of Jack?
Maybe. Why?
'Cause you got a postcard. It come general delivery.
Is he somebody you cowboyed with, or what?
No, Jack, he rodeos, mostly.
We was fishin' buddies.
You can color that one, too.
I'll color the beach.
Maybe we could get a baby-sitter. Huh?
Take your friend to the Knife and Fork?
No, Jack ain't the restaurant type.
We'll more likely just go out and get drunk.
That's if he shows.
Okay, we take one more bite, and then you're finished with dinner.
There, that's a good bite. All right, you're excused.
Please. Thank you.
Jack fuckin' Twist.
Son of a bitch.
Come here.
Alma, this is Jack Twist.
And, Jack, this is my wife, Alma.
Howdy. Hello.
You got a kid.
Yeah, I got two little girls. Alma Jr. and Jenny.
I got a boy. Yeah?
Eight months old. Smiles a lot.
I married the prettiest little gal in Childress, Texas.
Yeah? Lureen.
So me and Jack, we're gonna head out and get ourselves a drink. Yeah?
Sure enough. Pleased to meet you, ma'am.
We might not get back tonight...
when we get to drinkin' and talkin' and all.
Ennis?
Would you get me a pack of smokes?
If you need smokes, Alma, they're in the top pocket of my blue shirt.
There in the bedroom.
Four years. Damn! Yeah, four years.
Didn't think I'd hear from you again.
I figured you were sore from that punch.
Right next summer, I drove back up to Brokeback.