The western film genre has long proven itself to be more focused on the conflicts and confrontations that occur in the storyline. Usually, the western genre incorporates traditional Western motifs and icons and adheres to common plot structures of the genre, but Brokeback Mountain is different from what one might normally expect because it doesn't feel like a Western film at all traditional and conventional. Brokeback Mountain has several different twists, like its more modern version - traditionally, characters in Western films rode horses, but since Brokeback Mountain is a more modern film, both characters Jack and Ennis travel in cars and trucks. most often. This change is very important, because in many Western films horses are very important and are not just used as a means of everyday transportation. The western is a genre that also brings out other genres in its plot – war, melodrama, romance, comedy and action, for example. The western genre had become so flexible that Brokeback Mountain was successful in introducing new ideas into its genre. the plot, and although it had a more romantic side 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 major changes in the film. Ennis and Jack being homosexual lovers was a newly introduced concept in 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 as there was in Brokeback Mountain, where it was so readily explored, and even as such, it became the central theme of the film. itself, and as seen in most W...... middle of paper ...... incorporated it at all, and others, like Hell's Hinges, where Blaze, after having been attracted to Faith, becomes more of a hero than a villain, and The Virginian, where the Eastern schoolteacher, Molly, got along very well with The Virginian, but even where the element of attraction was introduced , there was still a serious lack of it in the early westerns, because unlike Brokeback Mountain, they weren't generally focused solely on the romantic aspect of it all - but it remains true that the genre was constantly evolving and is even today, and although traditional aspects and concepts of the western are still used in order to identify as such, western films today do not only focus on what they were in the distant past. Works CitedBrokeback Mountain. Real. Ang Lee. Perf. Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams. DVD. Focus Features, 2005.