 According to an interview that Heath Ledger (qv) gave to the  Philadelphia Inquirers Steven Rea, there was a sequence that was  filmed for the movie in which Jack and Ennis help some hippies get  their car out of a river. According to Ledger, the scene took a week  to shoot but was disliked almost immediately by everyone involved.  The scene was written by James Schamus (qv) as an attempt to show  Jack and Ennis in a heroic situation, but it does not appear in  E. Annie Proulx (qv)s original short story, the published  screenplay, or the final cut of the movie.