Deleted Scenes - Truck Scene

Travel Directions:
42 km west of Fort Macleod on Hwy 3 (Crowsnest Hwy). Right (north) onto Hwy 510 / Range Road 1-3, left (west) onto Railway Avenue. Osler is the second street. Note: Call sheets also place this scene as possibly in Carseland, AB; see Deleted Scenes, Signal Gas Station.

Remarks:
The Truck Scene probably shows the boys as they ride with the Basque to the sheep staging area.

12 INT: SIGNAL, WYOMING: PICKUP TRUCK: MORNING: 1963: 12

We see them pull out of Signal in an Agency pickup driven by a short, silent BASQUE. ENNIS looks hangover [sic], holds his head. JACK, though, is sharp and alert.

They pass the gas station. ENNIS glimpses the same sour old man, sitting on the tractor tire.

BASQUE

You boys need to stick close to them sheep. Don’t let ’em stray. Joe’ll have your ass, if you do.

JACK

Friend, you worry ’bout the drivin’. We’ll worry ’bout the sheep.

They drive on in silence.

[Script excerpt]

David Trimble, who played the Basque, recalls that a companion “return” Truck Scene was filmed in which he drove the boys back to Signal, in silence, at the end of their Brokeback summer. To date, we have been unable to find any script references to the “return” scene. (If you are aware of one, please let us know!)

Trimble also remembers that there was heavy rain on the day this scene was filmed, and that the sound of the rain was very loud. Perhaps technical considerations made it necessary to omit this scene from the film. Alternately, like the Signal Gas Station scene which it alludes to, the Truck Scene may have been cut in order to propel the action to the critical mountain scenes which follow it.

Quotation:
“We’ll worry ’bout the sheep.”

Deleted Scenes - Truck Scene

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