"Why hell, they aint no cowboys, they're just a couple of fruity sheepherders!"
Posted on 12/27/2005 8:54:11 AM PST by scripter
"Why hell, they aint no cowboys, they're just a couple of fruity sheepherders!"
But you can also consider Brokeback part of a long tradition. The "New Westerns" of the 1950s also played off against the traditional image of the cowboy, smuggling in Freudian ideas, ambiguity, guilt, and anti-heroes with a vulnerability and malaise that the old cowboys didn't have.
But really, aren't these guys are shepherds, not cowboys? Maybe the movie will sell homosexuality to the Basques and Welsh, but Americans have never had the taste for mutton.
True but lamb is delicious. I refuse to let these perverts stop me from enjoying a few chops.
I think his point is that, just as the Marlboro man romanticized and legitimized cigarette smoking, this movie is romanticizing and perhaps legitimizing homosexual relationships.
Carolyn
You're not the only one. I'd rather watch Oprah reruns (cringe). Do you know how the turnout has been? Are people actually paying for and sitting through this contrived hokum?
They arent cowboys, they are sheep herders.
Yes, I understand his point, but since smoking was legitimate long before Marlboro advertising, the comparison doesn't hold.
You are not alone!
This is one movie I'll never pay to see.
In real life, the separated sheepherders would have been cruising public parks for anonymous trysts while pining away for each other.
-the viewer be made to feel, and feel, and feel again as deeply as possible the exquisitely painful loneliness and heartache of the homosexual cowboys-
If you're going to see this movie, I'm assuming you already have a bias going on. I'd say there's little persuasion happening.
“Want to sell liquor? Put a seductive woman in the ad”
I’ll buy the argument that woman sell things for men, but how does putting cowboy on a package sell cigarettes in the same way, this is nonsense, the men I know don’t buy products because they are attracted to the man on the cover.
I don’t agree with the premise of this article that the makers of the movie are trying to “manipulate the public by associating their product with the fulfillment of people's deepest, unconscious needs and desires.” Because mainstream men don’t have desires for other men, the writers of this article just aren’t thinking about what they are saying here, else I am not following their logic?
Furthermore, the outrage of this movie shouldn’t be as much homosexual agenda, that most people are not even interested in and nobody has go to this film and while most of society is straight and cant be manipulated by a deep, unconscious need that doesn’t even exist in them, anyhow, that is ridicules.
The outrage however should be the depiction of the relationships between the men and their woman, whom they are showing as cheating on them, a loss of trust and a form of adultery which this movie and countless other Hollywood movies glorifies and of which seems to sadly resonate with people's deepest, unconscious needs and desires regardless of their sexual orientation.
Its us woman in stories like these who are the real victims.
Remember Jesse Dirkhising?
While one of the convicted killers of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising appeals his guilty verdict in the case all the way to the Arkansas Supreme Court and another has withdrawn his guilty plea, three years later there are few voices speaking out for the victim.
No local memorials have been held since his brutal death at the hands of two homosexual predators who confessed to using the boy as a sex toy while torturing him to death.
Read more...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29026
Heh heh.
The original Marlboro man died of lung cancer, is this writer suggesting these actors will die of AIDS? (OK I admit it, I didn't read this article)
In real life it would have been 200 or even 2000.
The beginning of the AIDS epidemice can be traced to an airline steward who had thousands of partners scattered all over the country.
"Do we understand that Hollywood could easily produce a similar movie to "Brokeback Mountain," only this time glorifying an incest relationship, or even an adult-child sexual relationship? "
I'm not enough of a movie buff to offer titles, but I'm quite sure this has already been done. I must say, Heath Ledger must do a great job in this movie as even those who are totally opposed to it say he is excellent.
LOL! what a great little movie THAT was! We'll have to change his name to Charles "Chuck-wagon" Schumer!
GREAT JOB!
I can't be the only one who finds this movie repulsive and disgusting. It gives me the creeps. It makes my skin crawl.
Just you and the rest of us "homophobes" out here in fly-over country........Ain't gona' waste my popcorn on this one!!
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