Posted on 03/06/2006 10:36:42 AM PST by mathprof
Leading US critics have questioned whether Hollywood is yet ready to give its biggest prize to a gay love story after the race drama Crash grabbed the Best Picture Oscar at the 78th Academy Awards last night.
Brokeback Mountain, the story of unfulfilled love between two gay cowboys that was nominated in eight categories, had been the runaway favourite for the award after cleaning up in the Golden Globes and Baftas.
But although it won three Oscars, including the Best Director award for the Taiwanese Ang Lee, the year's most talked-about film ended up losing on the final prize of the night.
"Perhaps the truth really is, Americans don’t want cowboys to be gay," said Larry McMurtry, the veteran Western writer who shared the award for best adapted screenplay.
(Excerpt) Read more at entertainment.timesonline.co.uk ...
From talking to people, the only reason anyone I know went to see it was strictly because it IS a gay movie. In the my local multiplex, the few people I saw going in to this movie a few weeks back were gay people anyway.
I didn't see it so I can't review it per se. Crash really was a good movie so I'm glad it won.
McGreevy Parkway
To paraphrase McMurtry:
Perhaps the truth really is, Hollywood doesn’t want cowboys to be gay.
Seems counterintuitive given the public image of the movie industry, but they are the ones who vote. They ARE the Academy.
btw,It too bad John Wayne isn't still alive to comment on this movie. One can only imagine the choice words he would have had to say...
The DUmp is in an uproar over the Academy's snub of sheepherder snuff.
Next year's winner will be the story of two, gay, handicapped, Muslim, animal-rights-activist, cowboys and their search to have their insurance company pay for a gender change operation. The movie ends in tragedy when one of the cowboys is shot by Vice President Cheney who mistakes the feather boa of one of heroes for an ostrich.
"Now I'm mad they made me change the title," said Larry McMurtry, the veteran Western writer who shared the award for best adapted screenplay. The original title was "Humpjack Mounting."
read more at...
http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
Even after NOT watching the Oscars for the 20th year in a row I still can NOT escape the pathetic self-congratulatory garbage spewed at the dais.
I will BET all I have that there wasn't a single MENTION of our TROOPS!!
Is that the "Hershey Highway?"
Maybe it just wasn't that good of a movie. And from what I've read, it wasn't so much of a 'gay love story' as it is a movie about one man's obsession for another to the point that both their marriages are destroyed in the process.
Obviously McMutry know this already, because he never had a homosexual cowboy in his many books or scripts before he got the idea from Annie Proulx.
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Playing the world's smallest violin for these whiners.
(okay, I know that's a really lame looking violin, but it's what they deserve)
Then Brokeback Mtn.
Strike two
Now this - "Perhaps the truth really is..." business...... Jeezuz, Larry - ya think?!
Strike three.
I have yet to meet an average, perfectly healthy heterosexual male who has an interest in surrendering 8 dollars and 2 hours of his lifespan only to watch 2 grown men kiss and fondle each other.
Memo to Hollywood: Keep your queer movies OUT of the mainstream. We are not going to watch them.
I wonder if the low cashbox sales have something to do with this? Money talks especially with those with no moral character, which pretty much describes all of Hollywood "save" one of two.
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