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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 ...
Narnia was only 5 times the gross of Brokeback. My mistake....
Excellent point, Mike. And Larry, after enjoying your previous writing, I'm looking at you in a whole new way after this, man. Just how high ARE the heels on your cowboy boots?
What? A movie about two heterosexuals who fall in love and remain in love with one another through the years, good times and bad. Why would anyone want to pander to that particular demographic? They might actually make some money, and as "Saint" George Clooney told us last night, Hollywood WANTS to be out of the mainstream.(/sarcasm off)
Hubby and I watched Walk The Line on Saturday and both of us really liked that film. Good movie.
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That's gotta be the gayest cowboy ever.
.How's it work with "Scarface" :)~
If they were showing part of the film, there IS a device in it which has the two directions, one is Blow and one is Suck. It's a VACUUM for removing rabbits from their warrens below ground.
Don't presume, if you know nothing about the film at all. As far as the two men 'swishing' up onto the stage, I have no idea because I didn't see it, but I presume one of them was Nick Park. I have no idea what his sexual orientation is, but he does have that British effeminate way of speaking, as MANY British men have, many of whom, I'm sure, are as straight as an arrow. As for the bow ties, I've known many men who wear them, and none, that I know of, is homosexual. Again, it's simply an regular article of clothing, so one shouldn't presume another's sexual orientation based on what that person is wearing.
Now if they'd arrived on stage in sparkling capes and boas, I might just have to presume based on previous knowledge of men who wear such outfits. ;o)
Typical of most stories with a homosexual theme it was a story about lies and human misery. That type of story does not get butts into the seats.
I wasn't out to correct you, sorry. Your point was made excellently and I was just trying to show exactly how wide the gap was between the losers and winners. If Oscars were given out by how good the movie was, assuming good means drawing the biggest crowd, then Narnia should have taken the win. But politics and "feelings" seem to dictate the awards, (ref. Gibson's 'Passion'). Since the award is given on the basis of subjectivity, and not on objectivity, the awards are useless and meaningless to those who got them. This is why many who recieve such awards still continue to drown thier sorrows in drugs and alcohol. The life style is so empty. Meaningless. Just like the award. When they are alone, and it's just thier conscience present, they know that everything they do and stand for, is just a facade, one more scene in the game of life, waiting for the director of life to yell-Cut!, That's a take! But that day will only come at the time of death. For many, that day can't come soon enough.
Brokeback Mountain was an attempt to show the moral validity of homosexual love by wrapping it in the moral mantle of adultery. I'm not surprised straights didn't ever watch it. I'm surprised homosexuals are claiming it as one of their films.
Shalom.
Beats me. That one isn't in my massive DVD library. :)
Actually, he would have had a stick in his hand and said, "You boys want something in your a$$?"
Shalom.
I had the same feeling. Courageous little nimrods, ain't they?
The Academy is notoriously timid and shallow.
ha ha ha nice one. i heard that billary appears in a guest role and she is kidnapped by a gay alien in a bunny suit
Ditto to that!
Next year's winner will be the story of two, gay, handicapped, Muslim, animal-rights-activist, cowboys Marines and their search to have their insurance company the Federal Government pay for a gender change operation. The movie ends in tragedy when one of the cowboys Marines is shot by Vice President Cheney who mistakes the feather boa of one of heroes for an ostrich a California Condor or Spotted Owl.
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