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 ...
"Dude, Where's My Dude?"
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
Brings new meaning to the term "Rump Rangers".
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.
We're known for being one of the most Republican counties in the Midwest, if not the nation...
Yay Waukesha! My old hometown! :-)
Grew up there, went away for a year at Stout, came back.
Though, the school system has something to be desired these days...
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.
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.
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! :-)
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.
"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.
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.
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.
Wow. That was amazing.
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.
Believe me, its a gay cowboy movie. That's why it is getting such raves from the homosexual controlled media.
Maybe it should have been titled "Humpback Mountain".
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.
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