Posted on 12/14/2005 9:03:24 AM PST by gopwinsin04
It's certainly one of the most favorably reviewed movies of the year, and a major player in the best picture race at the Oscars.
But 'Brokeback Mountain' isn't the easiest sell to audiences unaccustomed to films that deal frankly with same sex relationships: even at a recent screening in Los Angeles' liberal Westside, some moviegoers broke into inappropriate (but no doubt tension relieving) laughter at a scene in which the wife of taciturn cowboy (Heath Ledger) catches her husband in a passionate embrace with Jack Twist. (Jake Gyllenhall)
Perhaps to remind viewers (and voters) that there is more to director Ang Lee's film than it's wretching portrait of a gay relationship, a new 'for your consideration' ad appeared in today's Hollywood trade papers.
Where most of the ads to date have pictured Ledger and Gyllenhall, this one covers all the bases by going for a distinctly familiar and thoroughly heterosexual image: Jack Twist and his wife Lauren (Anne Hathaway) holding their newborn baby.
In other words, Brokeback Mountain may be the gay cowboy movie, but it's not just the gay cowboy movie.
(Excerpt) Read more at oscarbeat.latimes.com ...
Blech.
Anne Hathaway has a full-frontal shot in there that will help you make best use of the Fast Forward Finger.
See post 38. :-D
Well I'll be darned - that stopped clock McGruder certainly was right twice today!
There is a Gayville, South Dakota and there are real cowboys who live there!>>>>>>>>>>
By the way, was Marvin Gaye?
"Tom, please come out of the closet."
"They're The Gayest Monsters Ever Since Gay Came to Gaytown!" (with apologies to Master Shake.)
OK, I know I'm going to get blasted by some of the folks here, but..
There HAVE been a couple of movies about gays that have been pretty good to see..
- Philadelphia (Tom Hanks)
- Boys in the Band
So, it's possible this might actually be a good movie. BUT, like a lot of people on this forum, I just can't stomach seeing hardly any displays of homosexual affection.
And the movies I cited above were years ago -- at a time when I didn't feel such a media push to 'normalize' homosexuality. Currently, I just have more suspicions about any entertainment involving gays being part of the pro-gay propoganda going on so much now.
Anyway, I'm not in a hurry to see Brokeback Mountain. But I'm not completely closed to the possibility it actually could be a worthwhile movie.
My two cents,
-- Joe
Oh, that reminds me of an old Robin Williams' routine about the Falklands. :-)
At heart, Brokeback is an old lesbian fantasy -- two girls out on the range punching cattle, lassooing dogies, and staying together forever far from a disapproving society. As fantasies go, it's pretty stale, uninteresting stuff. But turn the two girls into boys, and suddenly the whole country is talking about it.
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Will there be a sequel involving a 10 year old boy and his stud horse Trigger? I can't wait for the enlightening, emotional experience and newfound sensitivity. Disgusting Sarc.
Theme song: Homos on The Range.......
The whole thing is disgusting. Especially the part with the sheep -- they really reek! :-).
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