Ennis unzips the plastic. He presses his face into the leather. It doesn't smell like the mountain anymore. It smells like old tobacco, horse, and a cologne that isn't Ennis’s. It smells like Jack’s other life—the one he built when he realized the mountain was never going to be enough.
The largest structural cut from the movie is an entire subplot involving a group of counterculture hippies. Set in the early 1970s, this three-part sequence filled a narrative gap between Jack being turned away by Ennis and his subsequent trip to Mexico. brokeback+mountain+deleted+scenes
The following scenes were either scripted and filmed or appeared in early promotional materials before being cut from the final theatrical version: Ennis unzips the plastic