![]() ![]() It’s 1963 and Ennis Del Mar ( Heath Ledger) arrives in the town of ‘Signal, Wyoming’ looking for work. For a phenomenally detailed location breakdown of practically every shot in the film, don't miss, the ultimate fansite.īrokeback Mountain filming location: looking for work in ‘Signal, Wyoming’: Railway Avenue, Cowley | Photograph: Google Maps The various peaks seen in the film include such landmarks as Windtower and Three Sisters, near Canmore, Moose Mountain to the east and Fortress to the south. The area had already provided spectacular backdrops for 1942 Betty Grable musical Springtime In The Rockies and for 1954 melodrama River Of No Return, with Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum. The spectacular ‘Brokeback’ country seen in the film is the Kananaskis Range around Canmore, on the Trans-Canada Highway southeast of Banff, about 60 miles west of Calgary. Getting the big disappointment out of the way first, there really is no ‘Brokeback Mountain’ – it’s an invention of author Proulx. Oddly, the film was made around many of the same areas as Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic Interstellar. Adapted from Annie Proulx’s story by Larry McMurtry, who wrote the magnificent The Last Picture Show, and with a couple of powerfully understated lead performances, Brokeback looked like a shoo-in for Best Picture, but 2006 turned out not to be the Academy’s finest year.Īlthough it’s set in ‘Riverton’, a real town in the Big Horn Mountains of central Wyoming (much larger and prosperous than the film version), and in Texas, it was filmed largely in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta. ![]()
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