Cowboy romance 'Brokeback' faces challenge [HAHAHAHAH!!!!!]

"Reuters" via Yahoooooo!!!! ^ | Thu Dec 8, 2:56 PM | Bob Tourtellotte

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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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[Squantos]

Your aware that Eaker wears a flaming holster for a reason right ?

[Dashing Dasher]

"Brokeback will become the kind of movie that you hear about at dinner parties that you feel you have to go see." - Roger Ebert

Translated:

I'd ride Heath Ledger anytime, anywhere, signed Roger Ebert.

[Dashing Dasher]

And Eaker paints his nails Pink?

[Squantos]

Yep.....

[razorback-bert]

If you just be safe about the choices

I wonder if this is an accurate quote...ebonics strikes.

[Dashing Dasher]

Ward, I'm starting to worry about the Eaker.

[NCC-1701]

"...How about just "not see this film." ..."

Slight correction. How about just "not see this drek."

[NCC-1701]

"..."See a cowboy mount his buddy and not his horse."..."

Or, to slightly alter a Big and Rich song title, "Ride a cowboy, not a horse".

[Eaker]

I am feeling very medieval today.

Don’t make me come up to Swishy Rump, TX and launch you into New Mexico with my trebuchet!!!

;<)

[Dashing Dasher]

I love it when you lisp.

[Smokin' Joe]

It won't even open in rural America.

Good. That at least improves the odds there will be something in the theaters we can take the kids to.

[day10]

The typical guy anser should be obvious:

NEVER

[j_k_l]

Cowboy Up!

[Eaker]

You know that toward the end of his career Rock Hudson planned to appear in a movie loosely based on Sylvester Stallone's Army character.

It was to be called Rambutt!!

[Eaker]

story about two cowboys who meet in 1963 wrangling sheep in Wyoming and form a bond that transcends time and transforms their lives.

Sheep shagging ping!

[RVN Airplane Driver]

Maybe they can rename this masterpiece "BrokeDick".

[KC_Conspirator]

"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.."

"Bareback" is more like it. This movie is going to be a bomb.

[j_k_l]

BackDoor Mountain

[razorback-bert]

Kinda cool up your way?

[Squantos]

"trebuchet"..........See , he even speaks french....:o)