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EXT. RANDOM VACATION MOUNTAINS

JACK

(accusatory)

Sometimes I miss you so much that I can hardly stand it.

ENNIS

No, I can't move to Mexico, or anywhere where we won't suffer hostility and discrimination

JACK

(exasperated)

Now what's the problem? You don't have family commitments—

ENNIS

I have my Pieces of Family Value Symbolism to support.

JACK

Logically, do you think that the geographical distance from your children means more financial support?

ENNIS

Uh…

JACK

Even if you stay there, you can see them only ONCE a month. On the other hand, if we move somewhere else together, you can still see them once a month by driving for, say, 14 hours while we can be together continuously in a merrier place.

ENNIS

Uh…

JACK

Aren't you sad because you are not living with me?

ENNIS

Yeah, but…

JACK

So if you are so sad because you are not living with me (which makes me and the audience sad, too), why don't you do what we want to do – live together? What, exactly, is the obstacle deterring you from getting what you really want?

ENNIS

Because…because I don't know.

JACK

(exasperated)

What do you mean by "you don't know"?

ENNIS

I don't know I'm in love with you.

JACK

(exasperated)

WHAT! You kissed and fucked me like that and you don't know you are in love with me! Don't tell me you did that out of lust.

ENNIS

I, uh…

JACK

(exasperated, on the verge of tears)

YOU DID THAT OUT OF LUST!

ENNIS

Look, I really love you, but we are in the 80's now, okay? "Homosexuality study" is much less popular now so of course I don't know my sexual tendency.

JACK

(desperate, crying)

Ennis, counting from the first moment we met, you have twenty years –TWENTY YEARS – to study your heart! Even the dumbest human being with little intuitive sense of romance should know the truth when they are in love – I mean, even penguins know that!

ENNIS

Fine! My point is, we have to act as if we are really pathetic, all right? Or else where is the Oscar movie that makes the audience cry like hell?

JACK

And so what! You are so mean and uncaring and desolate that you never appreciate the fact that for you someone is willing to give up anything he has!

ENNIS

Bah! But it appears you messed up your own rotten life! Face it, Jack! You have been a screaming homosexual since the moment you were born! Or else why did you approach that rodeo clown and why did you have to let off some steam in Mexico? I'm the victim here; my restrains clearly demonstrate that I'm not gay except when I'm with you!

JACK

(crying and screaming in a 19-yeal-old voice with a supposed 40-year-old face)

Messed my own life…You - you are too much for me, Ennis! I wish I knew how to quit you, you arrogant twit!

ENNIS

You can't; you are desperately in love with me, remember?

JACK

CRAP!

ENNIS

Despite knowing that, I'm still very upset. I wish you knew how to, you effeminate nightmare!

SENTIMENTALS IN THE AUDIENCE

(crying uncontrollably)

HOMOPHOBES IN THE AUDIENCE

(passing out)

JACK

(crying uncontrollably)

ENNIS

Hey, I'm the one who got fucked up! Why are you crying?

JACK

(crying uncontrollably)

Quiet! Can't you see I'm overcome by the huge sadness and grief that is drawn upon me and the audience?

ENNIS

Just because you and the audience desire something that is tragically forever beyond your reach?

JACK

(crying uncontrollably)

No, because this doesn't make sense!

ENNIS

You mean you falling in love with me?

JACK

(crying uncontrollably)

No, but the entire movie! Where is the plot? And why does everything – including our decisions -- seem so random and isolated!

ENNIS

This is an emotional movie. It is designed only to manipulate the lachrymal glands of the eyes of the audience. Don't try to apply the laws of humanity or physics here.

JACK

(crying uncontrollably)

Then that REALLY sucks!

ENNIS

Then, why don't you let me fuck you for the last time so that we can distract the audience from what is really important?

JACK

(defeated, still crying)

This is absurd! Believe me, Ennis, someday you will regret so much for behaving like a genuine irrational coward that you will cry your heart out on my grave.

ENNIS

Speaking of which, how will you die, specifically? I mean, will it be a really an accident, or will you be killed by people who hate homosexuals? And if it's a murder, how will people find out that you are a homosexual? Is it because people hear you want to move away with Randall? And does it mean you will finally decide to ditch me? And how come I will not be the least affected by knowing this when that Appalling Old-Country-Man Stereotype tells me what happened?

DIRECTOR ANG LEE

Enough of rationality! Shut up and cling on each other desperately.

FADE OUT, ROLL CREDITS. THE AUDIENCE feels so sorry for JACK and ENNIS that they begin to give this movie more OSCARS.

FILM CRITICS

Whoa! This film is absolutely amazing! It has all the essential elements required to be an Oscar movie: tortured characters, forbidden love, unhappy marriages, sad endings, lavish landscapes, weird dialogues, hostile society…and, most of all, THE CONFUSION CAUSED IN THE AUDIENCE! OSCAR FOR ANG LEE!

THE AUDIENCE

Not the confusion in us, but rather the confusion in understanding the film, mostly. Hold on; did you guys give this movie Oscars because it confuses you?

FILM CRITICS

Of course not. During half of the screen time I was trying to justify our bribes taken from those anti-Bush social activists; how can I be ever confused in my purpose of giving Oscars to this movie?

THE AUDIENCE

Ah, anti-Bush? All is well, then. Did you see that video clip featuring him? That was hilarious.


The End

(Okay, who wants to see the deleted scenes?)