NO MORE HOMOSEXUAL PREACHING IN MOVIES!
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Posted on 12/09/2005 4:28:35 AM PST by jjm2111
OS ANGELES (Reuters) - It has wowed film festivals, won rave reviews and sparked Oscar buzz, but when "Brokeback Mountain," a.k.a. the gay cowboy movie, begins playing to general audiences on Friday, it faces its toughest challenge yet -- wooing mainstream America.
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...Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger, risk alienating fans and sending their stars plummeting if, after watching the pair have sex on screen, audiences cannot see them any other way than gay.
Winning over middle America is important for the roughly $12.5 million movie because its backer, art house specialist Focus Features, wants a big box office and wider exposure for the film's themes of love, friendship and family ties.
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Gyllenhaal and Ledger say they are less concerned about their futures than the film's, which was directed by Ang Lee and based on Annie Proulx's story about two cowboys who meet in 1963 wrangling sheep in Wyoming and form a bond that transcends time and transforms their lives.
Ledger, whose career has suffered from several recent flops, also said the role gave him the opportunity to mature. "If you just be safe about the choices you make, you don't grow," he said.
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Critics have raved. Roger Ebert told Reuters: "Brokeback will become the kind of movie that you hear about at dinner parties that you feel you have to go see. [in the liberal Northeast]"
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But many industry watchers are skeptical of its crossover potential in a country divided into conservative states mostly in mid-America and the South and liberal states on the coasts.
"(But) we should probably recognize there are some areas and some groups that will oppose this film."
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Heat wave today 14 degrees now....yesterday at 0500L it was -5 degrees at the house when I left for work with the standard 20mph wind that's always present. A 3 carhart day fer sure.....Thank goodness for remote starts and block heaters.....:o)
In 1945 the term 'gay' meant something altogether different than what it does today.
You learn something new every day...
Who the hell has "dinner parties" anymore?
You also know what he said to his wife on their honeymoon.
"Ok baby, roll over and take it like a man."
LOL!!
I bet you already knew that though, didn't you?
Yakitty - Smakitty.
Git to work!
My friends and I do. Just had one last night..a most enjoyable time. :o)
As a matter of fact I did.
Somedays, when it gets really tense, I let off steam by doing something unforgivably silly, like that post.
I an relate. :O)
NO MORE HOMOSEXUAL PREACHING IN MOVIES!
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I'll pass. We want to see "Walk the Line".
Shouldn't they have called it Bareback Mountain?
"Arthouse films by defintition don't make tons of money. That's not why they're made."
You're right of course, but just watch and see if the film's lack of success isn't attributed to "right wing Christian" opposition, or "homophobia".
"Just what sort of dinner parties does he go to...."
The liberal elitist kind where not wanting to watch two guys go at it makes you an unsophisticated, bigoted, country bumpkin religious zealot.
Never in a million, and I hope it bombs big time. Who the hell would want to go see a couple pillow biters pretending to be old time west men?? I hope it bombs.
Now, if you want to remake it and have it a normal western, maybe throw in some babes in chaps, then I may raise a brow.... ;^)
lol...
This is the current state of "art," and the arts.
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