Posted on 01/17/2006 6:09:13 AM PST by thehumanlynx
Brokeback Mountain Claims Big Four At The Golden Globes
Critically-acclaimed western Brokeback Mountain cleaned up at the Golden Globe Awards last night by claiming four top honors.
The controversial film, which has been banned from some cinemas for its gay themes, took home Best Movie (Drama), Best Screenplay and Best Song prizes at the 63rd annual Golden Globe Awards, while Ang Lee picked up the night's Best Director honor from his hero Clint Eastwood.
And there were triple celebrations for Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line when Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix claimed the acting honors in the Comedy/Musical movie category and the film picked up the Best Motion Picture (Comedy/Musical) prize.
The win cost Phoenix dear, however - he bet Witherspoon's husband Ryan Phillippe he wouldn't win a Golden Globe. The Crash star demanded payment as his pal took to the stage at the Beverly Hilton hotel.
Meanwhile, there was a big upset for the stars of Desperate Housewives during the night's TV awards - all four Best Actress nominees from the show lost out to Mary Louise Parker, who plays a marijuana-selling desperate housewife on cable show Weeds.
But the stars of the hit show didn't miss out on a Best TV Show award - they scooped the coveted prize from Weeds, Curb Your Enthusiasm, My Name is Earl, Entourage and Everybody Hates Chris - and the show's Felicity Huffman claimed the night's Best Actress (Drama) movie award for her role as a transgender man in Transamerica.
The big TV winner was acclaimed mini-series Empire Falls, which claimed two honors - Best Actor (Paul Neuman) and Best Miniseries/TV Movie.
The full list of awards is:
Movie Awards Best Score: John Williams MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
Best Original Song: A Love that Will Never Grow Old by Emmylou Harris, Bernie Taupin and Gustavo Santaolalla -Brokeback Mountain
Best Movie (Comedy/Musical): Walk the Line
Best Movie (Drama):
TV Awards
Best Mini-series or TV Movie: Empire Falls
Best TV Series (Movie/Comedy): Desperate Housewives
Best TV Series (Drama): Lost
Cecil B Demille Award for Lifetime Achievement: Sir Anthony Hopkins
Copyright 2006, World Entertainment News Network
I liked her in Penthouse.
No, it is moral-equivalence. The original book was solidly anti-terror. There is another posting on this forum regarding how the author of the book is disgusted by the moral-equivalence presented between the terrorists and the Mossad. The original author wishes a movie vaguely close to his book was produced.
From Defamer.com...
http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/golden-globes/more-globe-moments-dennis-quaids-chick-flick-joke-149122.php
Anyone who sat through last night’s Golden Globes telecast felt crippling, vicarious embarrassment on behalf of presenter Dennis Quaid, whose soon-to-be infamous “chick flick” joke will surely go down in the storied history of awards show misfires. Our transcription of Quaid’s doomed introduction of Brokeback Mountain:
QUAID: “Our last nominated drama tells the story of two young cowboys who met in the summer if 1963 and forge an unexpected, lifelong connection that proves the endurance and power of love. It’s a controversial film. It’s…let’s just say it rhymes with ‘chick flick.’”
[SFX: CRICKETS too confused to muster much chirping.]
[SFX: Barely audible, grudging LAUGHTER.]
CUT TO: Heath Ledger REACTS with a sliver of a smile, wishing he could swallow down his shame like his Brokeback character, Ennis Del Mar.
Always a pro, Quaid took the stifling silence in stride and continued his recitation of Teleprompter copy. But the damage had been done, as millions of people around the world were bumped out of the moment, finding themselves wondering what pronunciation of “an uplifting, emotional tour de force about the incredible, but sometimes tragic, power of love” can be made to rhyme with “chick flick.”
Many thanks! must have left out a quotation mark or something.
Thanks! Up by how much I wonder? I notice they didn't say :)
What is the message of this movie?
I wasn't going to watch....but nothing else was on but repeats and I wanted to watch some tv.
Feel free to go to the documentary site (which will give you a synopsis of the story in about 45 seconds) and get a brief overview of the story. Click here
No, I didn't think so. This is just more of the same from the egotistical liberals on the left coast.
I don't know if the film is any good - Bendover Mountain. Its simply that Hollywood slathered the awards on it because it is a GAY flick and nothing more. It was done to piss the rest of Americans off. It was done in an effort to say "Screw the traditional Family, religion, and heterosexuality". In Hollywood the kinkier the better.
A friend of mine went to see this movie. And from what she said last night... what she saw on TV and heard on the radio, it seemed to be a good movie so she took her 16-year-old daughter. She had no idea what she was in for, so they walked out within 20 minutes and was given a refund.
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Yes, I heard about that - - these two "guys" prefer sheep to cows. Well, that's their orientation, I guess.
What awards was this? The "adult" movie industry awards?
I'm going to write a gay Godzilla movie. Think of all the awards I will win.
LOL!
"Gay Movies" will be pitted against Religious conservative leaders tonight on Larry King Live, 9p Eastern. Brokeback will be featured along with END OF THE SPEAR which is about missionaries, comes out Friday, and has an actor who is gay. Heard it's (End of the Spear) an oustanding movie and that the actor did an incredible job. MUCH different than Brokeback Mountain.
Hollywood would have lauded Mel Gibson with awards if he had introduced two gay cowboys in his Passion of Christ movie. That's all it takes for those freaks in Hollywood to vote it a great film.
Critically-acclaimed western Brokeback Mountain cleaned up at the Golden Globe Awards last night by claiming four top honors.
Does the sight of conservatives fighting to protect moral values embarass you ? Do you find it 'intolerant' and 'insensitive' ? Should we be more 'inclusive' ?
If we do not fight back we live in a world where Hollywood homos dictate moral values to the culture at large. If that happens it doesn't matter how many Republicans there are in Congress. If the Left wins the cultural victories than all our political victories are for naught.
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