Brokeback+mountain+deleted+scenes Jun 2026

After she says, “He was pumping up a flat on his truck… a tire slipped and the iron caught him in the face,” there was a three-second pause. According to the script, Lureen was supposed to coldly add, “Just my luck.” Instead, in a deleted alternate take, Hathaway ad-libbed, “He never did know how to change a tire.” The line was so absurd and dismissive that test audiences snorted. Ang Lee cut it immediately, recognizing that Brokeback Mountain must never undercut its tragedy with dark comedy, no matter how dark.

: In 2008, an Italian TV network (RAI) faced significant backlash for airing a version that removed several gay kissing and sex scenes, though these were not "deleted scenes" in the traditional sense but rather edited for broadcast. Why not read the original short story by Annie Proulx? brokeback+mountain+deleted+scenes