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The Straight Side of Brokeback Mountain (Alert: Studio Issues 'Hetero Friendly' Ads to Fool Viewers)
Oscarbeat ^ | 12.23.05 | Steve Pond

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 ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: ads; barebackmountain; brokebackmountain; buggerymountain; deceit; fudgepackmountain; hollyweird; homos; homosexualagenda; lonerumpranger; perversion; perverts; pudding; queers
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To: gopwinsin04

"Dude, Where's My Dude?"


181 posted on 12/15/2005 6:53:14 AM PST by freedomlover (It's "Merry Christmas" - or the elf gets it)
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To: Awgie

Song: Homos On The Range

Oh, give me a home where the big fellas roam
Where the queers and the girlie men play
Where seldom is heard a disparaging word
And the guys are not rowdy all day
Homos on the range
Where the queers and the girlie men play
Where seldom is heard a disparaging word
And the guys are not rowdy all day


182 posted on 12/15/2005 6:54:40 AM PST by Red Badger (And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him)
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To: gopwinsin04

Brings new meaning to the term "Rump Rangers".


183 posted on 12/15/2005 6:59:02 AM PST by gesully (gesully)
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To: gopwinsin04

The Ads give everybody the idea it's a good straight Western.

Brokeback Mountain sounds tough and adventurous. Crammedorifice Mountain would have been a more appropriate title.


184 posted on 12/15/2005 7:02:32 AM PST by F.J. Mitchell (Okay, bring our troops home. But don't feign surprise when the terrorists tag along.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
Somehow, I don't see it being popular in Waukesha County, WI either.

We're known for being one of the most Republican counties in the Midwest, if not the nation...

185 posted on 12/15/2005 7:03:20 AM PST by rzeznikj at stout (Liberalism: The world's singular leading cause of truth decay...)
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To: rzeznikj at stout

Yay Waukesha! My old hometown! :-)


186 posted on 12/15/2005 7:16:21 AM PST by arizonarachel ("Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men," Col 3:23)
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To: arizonarachel
Good city to live in--at least it isn't Milwaukee...

Grew up there, went away for a year at Stout, came back.

Though, the school system has something to be desired these days...

187 posted on 12/15/2005 7:31:45 AM PST by rzeznikj at stout (Liberalism: The world's singular leading cause of truth decay...)
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To: Tax-chick

Hollywood produces very little for which I would waste my money. The loudest message they hear is to boycott the filth they produce that is promoted as entertainment.

I will see Narnia this weekend--the first film I have paid to see for close to two years.


188 posted on 12/15/2005 7:38:50 AM PST by Neoliberalnot
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To: Neoliberalnot

We only see a movie about once a year. I saw "Star Wars 3" with some of my kids this summer. (Dumb) And my husband saw the new Harry Potter last week.


189 posted on 12/15/2005 8:07:23 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Dick Cheney never trims his own nails. He simply stares at them until the tips melt off.")
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To: rzeznikj at stout

I lived in Lannon for a long time (for high school) and then went to UW-Waukesha for an associates degree. I only miss Wisconsin in the summer, or when I miss my family! :-)


190 posted on 12/15/2005 8:55:34 AM PST by arizonarachel ("Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men," Col 3:23)
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To: arizonarachel
Yup, familiar with the area. I work at Quad in Sussex over the summer, and I often drive through that area on my way camping with the Scouts or going to Menomonee Park...

I'm currently a student at UW-Waukesha, though I transferred in as a sophomore-standing. Hoping to graduate in May, then go on to another college in the UW system.

And then after graduation, seriously considering fleeing the state, especially if the tax hell and the current governor end up staying past January '07.

191 posted on 12/15/2005 3:12:28 PM PST by rzeznikj at stout (Liberalism: The world's singular leading cause of truth decay...)
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To: massgopguy

"The Bird Cage didn't get this push because Nathan Lane and Mork didn't kiss."


Years ago I saw the French film on which this was based, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES.

I liked it at the time; found it entertaining. But back then, I was a liberal. I also liked many irrational things.

Funny what sanity does to people.


192 posted on 12/15/2005 4:36:06 PM PST by MoochPooch (A righteous person worries about his or her behavior, an extremist about everyone else's.)
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To: Joe Republc

BOYS IN THE BAND was quite good, actually.

Although lurid, it had a moral voice. It showed the tormented lives many homosexuals lead.

But that film was made at a much earlier time. Homosexuality was still perceived as perverse.

I didn't see PHILADELPHIA STORY, because I feared it was PC. But at least it showed the correlation between homosexuality & AIDS.

Films like BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN do worse than present homosexuality in a neutral way. They are trying to sanction it.


193 posted on 12/15/2005 4:59:43 PM PST by MoochPooch (A righteous person worries about his or her behavior, an extremist about everyone else's.)
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To: gopwinsin04

Part of Hollywood's continuing campaign to wiggle their genitals in our faces. It's what they live for. They think we are stodgy Christians who need to be tricked into accepting their perverted values.

Nothing new to see here.


194 posted on 12/15/2005 5:10:07 PM PST by Tall_Texan (Santa Claus is an illegal alien.)
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To: peyton randolph

Wow. That was amazing.


195 posted on 12/15/2005 5:16:56 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Lil'freeper
It's a shame Miss. Hathaway is a part of this. It taints her other work.

Ella Enchanted's rack isn't going to save this movie any more than Rosario Dawson's could save "Alexander".

When a teen actress wants to show that she is all grown up, she does it by showing all. Jennifer Connelly, Elizabeth Berkeley, Alyssa Milano, Drew Barrymore in Playboy, Shannen Doherty, Katie Holmes, Rachel Leigh Cook, and now Anne Hathaway.

196 posted on 12/15/2005 5:24:23 PM PST by Sam the Sham (A conservative party tough on illegal immigration could carry California in 2008)
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To: gopwinsin04
In other words, Brokeback Mountain may be the gay cowboy movie, but it's not just the gay cowboy movie

Believe me, its a gay cowboy movie. That's why it is getting such raves from the homosexual controlled media.

197 posted on 12/16/2005 9:42:27 AM PST by swampfox98 (I voted for George Bush and got Vicente Fox. Phooey!)
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To: gopwinsin04

Maybe it should have been titled "Humpback Mountain".


198 posted on 12/16/2005 9:47:34 AM PST by Parmy
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To: gopwinsin04

I have a problem with this movie's advertising and reviews. It isn't up front with the audience.

It is not mentioned that these two 'cowboys' are actually sheep-herders. To people in the know, there is a great difference especially in the 'mythos' the film makers are trying to 'cash in' on with gay contraversy. **I feel the Mel Brooks might have been more appropriate to do a film about two gay sheepherders in the mountains!

Also the two men are already married with children to women before getting involved. So there is an real element of family breaking-up here.

All these facts as compared to the simplistic way this film is being marketed to the audience is somewhat false & hypocritical. Hypocrisy sucks!
I don't patronize such phony message films.


199 posted on 12/29/2005 12:54:22 PM PST by cowboy_code ("There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.")
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