[Semper Paratus]

First Brokeback thread of the day.

[svcw]

These guys are tending sheep! Then they are NOT cowboys.

[Borges]

How does he derive it being 'neo-Marxist'?

[SirLinksalot]

I second Jon Dougherty's comment at Worldnetdaily when he said thusly:

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It's being touted by "critics" as a "broader story of tragic love," a "remarkable" and "heartbreaking" film, a "cinematic triumph" that is "compelling" and "atmospheric" in its "universal substance," a story that is told with "taste and intelligence."

Whatever. The fact is the only reason Hollywood and its cheerleaders are ga-ga over this film is because it's a "love story" about two homosexual men. No matter what else you read or hear about it, that's the bottom line on the film's storyline, pure and simple.

But look, it doesn't take a crystal ball to know "Brokeback" is little more than an effort by Hollywood culture thieves to celebrate and mainstream a lifestyle (homosexuality) with which most Americans disagree, while flipping the bird to the distinctly heterosexual American West, where men were men, women were women, and neither slept with members of the same gender.

And granted, so far the film has done pretty well in terms of box office (about $550,000 as of this writing). But considering where it has opened thus far – New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco – that's expected (what "gay" film would not do well in San Fran and NYC?).

As to how it's going to do everywhere else is predictable. The Hollywood elite and the purveyors of multiculturalism – none of whom have much knowledge of, or respect for, Mr. and Mrs. America – will talk of the film's "success" and "impact" at their exclusive parties and social functions. But you can bet your rawhide boots and 10-gallon punchbowl "Brokeback" isn't likely to break the bank.

That's because no matter how many cultural icons Hollywood tries to skewer, Main Street isn't ready to accept cowboys who are, er, a little light in the saddle because, well, that just isn't Main Street. In fact, the more Hollywood tries to dismiss and eradicate traditional America, the more America clings to it.

If you doubt that, consider last year's genuine bank-breaking blockbuster, Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ." Hollywood hated the film (actually, they hated the film's premise – that there is a "God" and it's not Steven Spielberg). The major distribution companies wouldn't touch it. The glitterati press panned it. Special-interest groups decried it. Jewish organizations thought it comparable to the Holocaust (a comparison that was completely off the charts).

If you want more proof there is an agenda behind "Brokeback," consider that the advance praise for this film has only been matched by the advance criticism of "Passion." As much as Tinseltown loves "gay" cowboys, they hated Jesus.

With its underlying message that homosexuality is so normal even strapping young cowboys in Wyoming can have a hankerin' for each other, this movie is going to be as popular with most Americans as a hog farm in the summer, despite the best efforts of Hollywood to present it as the greatest performance ever committed to celluloid.

But don't take my word for it. Go ask the first cowboy you see how many boyfriends he has, then make up your mind ... if you're still standing.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I am going to run right out and not see it.

[Millee]

Ennis?????? Sounds a little bit too close to anus. LOLOL!

[Spok]

"It's also politically correct."

The key to institutional recognition in Hollywood but not necessarily box office success. This will be one of those critically acclaimed (pardon the pun) 'sleepers'. As for me, I'll stick with Pike Bishop and Dutch Engstrom.

[Joe Boucher]

I hope hollywood goes out of business. Would anyone out there take your children to see this crap?
Hopefully they see how it is to lose money and their investors get tired of it and stop financing them.

[bannedfromdu]

I assume anyone walking around dressed up in cowboy gear has homosexual leanings.

[Wasanother]

Just when I thought Hollywood couldn't stoop any lower they go out and prove me wrong. Is the next step for Jollywood about a couple gay professional hockey or football players?

[fredhead]

Where are you, Harry Carey Sr. and Jr., Ben Johnson, John Wayne, Gene Autry, Clayton Moore & Jay Silverheels, Ward Bond, Ken Curtis, Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Tom Mix, Michael Landon, and all the other great cowboy actors?

Only James Arness, Tom Selleck, Sam Elliot, Clint Eastwood and a few others left.

[Hoodlum91]

I'm posting here just for my tagline....

[Hegemony Cricket]

I have noticed that if a move is described as "critically acclaimed", you can pretty well figure that it sucks...

[stylecouncilor]

[Always Right]

Who calls up all their friends and says 'hey, let's go to that gay cowboy movie'?

[Blind Eye Jones]

Man, I waiting for the two lesbian cowboy sex change midgets... midgets who are heating up the west by doing it to barnyard animals! Come on people! These people are out there and Hollywood knows it and some self hating drugged out neo Nazi Jew will get financing from his dying dad or Steve Spielbuger (the hold the non-fattening-mosletoff relish -- I'm still a Jewish film maker) to make the picture. Yes, it will have Alan Alda and Robert Di Niro as cowboys lesbians midgets with Barbra Streisand as the cow and with Alex Baldwin as the shrink with a problem with his pet chicken. And the political message to America will be "listen to Micheal Moore and Cindy Sheehan because you can see how uptight America has become!" Yes, it is a family saga about cowboy barnyard rape... where the cops had been called in because a pig squealed on the two lesbian cowboy sex change midgets. Seriously, this is art!!!!! There is more money in this that will ever be needed in New Orleans... folks.

[SirLinksalot]

Brokeback morality

By Gary DeMar

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© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Can we ever sing "Home on the Range" again without the lyrics being spoiled by images of the latest in homosexual propaganda, "Brokeback Mountain," a story about two cowboys in love – with each another? As expected, Hollywood is gushing over the latest finger in the eye of the movie-going public.

There have been homosexual-themed movies before ("Philadelphia" and "Boys Don't Cry"). Tom Hanks and Hillary Swank each won an Academy Award for their performances, but neither movie won Best Picture. The buzz around "Brokeback Mountain" almost assures that it will be in Oscar contention. The folks in Hollywood are desperate for homosexual characters and movies to be featured prominently across the Silver Screen. Why?

It's not that most of Hollywood is made up of homosexuals, although there is a disproportionate number in the entertainment field. Divorce, multiple remarriages, children out of wedlock, drugs, alcohol addiction, sexual exploitation, and just plain bad behavior are common features of the Hollywood in-crowd. If the worst of sexual behavior – homosexuality – can be tolerated and even accepted by the general public, then these other behaviors won't seem bad any more.

Today's entertainment and political propagandists have, in the words of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, "defined deviancy down" so that what was morally shocking 20 years ago is acceptable, or at least tolerated, behavior today. Robert Bork, no stranger to moral degradation, having been "Borked" on national television, explains the phenomenon:


Emile Durkheim, a founder of sociology, posited that there is a limit to the amount of deviant behavior any community can "afford to recognize." As behavior worsens, the community adjusts its standards so that conduct once thought reprehensible is no longer deemed so.

– Robert H. Bork, "Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline," Regan Books, 1996


At the same time, these same moral misfits are defining their own brand of moral deviancy up. What was considered morally normal 30 years ago – two-parents of the opposite sex married and living together, participation in the Boy Scouts and being protected from homosexual predators, rejecting a pro-death culture, and stay-at-home moms – is now "portrayed as oppressive and shot through with pathologies.

As part of the vast social project of moral leveling," [Charles] Krauthammer wrote, "it is not enough for the deviant to be normalized. The normal must be found to be deviant." This situation is thoroughly perverse. Underclass values become increasingly acceptable to the middle class, especially their young, and middle-class values become increasingly contemptible to the cultural elites." (Bork, "Slouching Towards Gomorrah")

Americans have become desensitized to moral degeneracy. Immoral acts that were once only spoken of in hushed tones 30 years ago are now included in the curriculum of our nation's government schools in order to break the back of values that create and sustain civilizations.

[bulldozer]

What makes me upset is when you go to Yahoo! Movies to check out this movie it doesn't list it a homosexual or gay. You have to lots of digging on the Yahoo website to find out it is gay. Many people who rely on Yahoo for movie info are going to be in for a suprise.

Yahoo rates it as A-.

Yahoo! Movies Brokeback Mountain

[Rebelbase]

"The movie opens in Wyoming in 1963 where two young cowboys,
Ennis and Jack, are hired to tend some sheep"

Unintentional humor.

[Chewie84]

"Thus, in the end, the ultimate goal of the filmmakers behind "Brokeback Mountain" is to send a politically correct message about how awful American society is in its treatment of homosexuals. To complement this evil message is a scene where Jack mocks people who go to church and who sing hymns about Jesus Christ."

I figured they'd probably throw in something like that into the movie. "Brokeback Mountain" and "The Ringer" are the only two films that I definitely WON'T be seeing during the Christmas season.