The Western film genre has long proven to be more about the conflict and clashes that occur in the plot. Usually the Western genre incorporates traditional Western motifs and icons and adheres to those common plot structures of the genre, but Brokeback Mountain is different from what you would normally expect because it doesn't feel like a traditional, conventional Western film at all. Brokeback Mountain has several twists, such as the more modern version: traditionally, characters in Western films rode horses, but since Brokeback Mountain is a more modern film, the two characters Jack and Ennis are seen traveling in cars and trucks. most of the time. This change is very important, since in many western films horses are very important and are not only used as a typical everyday means of transportation. The western is a genre that also brings out other genres in the plot: war, melodrama, romance, comedy and action, for example. The Western genre has become so flexible that Brokeback Mountain was able to successfully introduce new ideas into its plot. plot, and although it had a more romantic feel due to the relationship between Ennis and Jack, it was still recognized as a western film. This relationship between the two cowboys is one of the biggest important changes in the film. Ennis and Jack being gay lovers was a concept recently introduced into the western genre. It could be argued that there is and always has been some sort of underlying element of homoeroticism in Western films before, but not like in Brokeback Mountain, where it was so easily explored, and even as such made the central theme of the film. itself, and as seen in most of W...... half of the doc... incorporated it entirely, and others, like Hell's Hinges, where Blaze, after being attracted to Faith, becomes more of a hero than a villain, and The Virginian, where the oriental teacher Molly got along very well with The Virginian, but even when the element of attraction was introduced, there was still a serious lack of it in the early westerns, since unlike Brokeback Mountain, were typically not focused exclusively on the romantic aspect of the whole, but it was still true that the genre was constantly evolving and still is today, and although the traditional aspects and concepts of the western are still used to identify itself as such , today's Western films don't focus exclusively on what they were in the distant past. Works Cited Brokeback Mountain. Dir. Ang Lee. Perf. Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams. DVD. Focus functionality, 2005.