Hollywood Rocked: 'Gay Cowboy' Movie Becomes an Oscar Frontrunner

Drudge Report ^ | November 6, 2005

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HOLLYWOOD ROCKED: 'GAY COWBOY' MOVIE BECOMES AN OSCAR FRONTRUNNER

Arriving with nudity and explicit gay sex scenes between two cowboys, UNIVERSAL/FOCUS FILMS's BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN has quietly become an award season frontrunner, interviews with Academy members reveal.

"It could very well be the last film standing at this year's Oscars," a top Hollywood producer not associated with the film explained from Hollywood.

"There was not a dry eye in the house at the screening at Telluride [Film Festival in Colorado]," says the producer, who asked not to be named out of respect for the cast and crew of the producer's own Oscar contender. "Watch it come out of the gate at the Golden Globes with super controversy."

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS critic Jack Mathews predicts the gay cowboy movie, which takes place in Wyoming, may be "too much for red-state audiences, but it gives the liberal-leaning Academy a great chance to stick its thumb in conservatives' eyes."

Director Ang Lee's movie staring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger won the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival earlier this fall.

But will a movie even Madonna calls "shocking" sit with the heartland?

Playwright and lifelong Wyomingite tells the STAR-TRIBUNE of Casper this week that she has never encountered a gay cowboy, and doesn't think it's right for Hollywood to portray Wyoming as a state with gay cowboys.

Her message to the writers of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN: “Don't try and take what we had, which was wonderful -- the cowboys that settled the state and made it what it was -- don't ruin that image... There's nothing better than plain old cowboys and the plain old history without embellishing it to suit everyone."

Meanwhile, Michell Howard of the state's Travel and Tourism Division says her agency is already hearing a buzz that people in other countries are expressing interest in visiting Wyoming because of the film.

“It's gotten rave reviews from the international community,” she said. “I don't know if they're more tolerant or something, but they're viewing it as a great Western movie.”

Developing...

[Rastus]

Is it really that hard a point to understand? How about: goldstate had a point. You don't.

[DoughtyOne]

My wife and I watch a few shows on televison, and doze off in the middle of many of them. LOL

I forgot to mention that I use a DVR to record movies, then transfer them to DVD. Those cost me about a buck to produce, over and above the cable rates that is.

I like to be able to reference scenes when folks bring them up.

[woofie]

Riding horses must be arousing

[wtc911]

hopefully this will kill a couple of careers.

[GretchenM]

the gay cowboy movie ... may be "too much for red-state audiences, but it gives the liberal-leaning Academy a great chance to stick its thumb in conservatives' eyes."

Nice to see them outline their true agenda so bluntly.

[laney]

SO they say...:)

[DoughtyOne]

I agree with your take on this.  I wouldn't mind seeing dreamworks taken down a notch or ten.  Every single movie they make that is directed at young children, has some very questionable scenes in them.  I have no idea what they must be thinking by adding in disgusting material that is way out of the target age group.

122 check out this post also.

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Lesbian Spank Inferno

I'm sure this ranks right up there with Pixar's offerings as family fare.

[dr_who_2]

Truly shocking.

Not really. Actually, it's kind of funny. Maybe this is what future movie buffs will call a "revisionist revisionist western" (either that or "Plan 9 From Cheyenne, Wyoming").

[GOPJ]

Hollywood thinks shock can subsitute for talent. And for buzz it's ture. But that's about it...

[manwiththehands]

"... two male cowboys from very different backgrounds who meet and fall in love while working together as sheep ranch hands ... "

SHEEP? These Hollywood snots have walked right into the biggest joke of the year. SHEEP? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! (snort)

"Baaaaaa. Are you my daaaaaddy"?

[apackof2]

This will bomb big time

THERE ARE NO HOMOSEXUAL COWBOYS!

[henderson field]

This only shows you how much Hollywood and its Marxist acolytes hate America.

[Slings and Arrows]

I just know you folks can have fun with this thread.

[dr_who_2]

No underaged cattle were used in this production.

[SpookBrat]

Did Larry McMurtry write this? He's one of my favorite authors. I'm deeply disappointed and heart sick over this news.

[Guenevere]

Dearie, these two over twenty guys weren't little naive baby stars who depended on their agents for mere morsals of fame.

Gyllenhall is from entertainment stock...his parents!

And Ledger's been around the block a few times.

I have to believe they wanted to do this film.

Remember, Gyllenhall's sis is an outspokent anti-military, anti-Bush.

No doubt they did/do want to stick it in conservative's eye....

..too bad they'll pout when we don't go see it.

Thank goodness for INTERNET!!...and especially FREE REPUBLIC!

[Texas_Jarhead]

I hope this movie becomes a front runner for best movie. Maybe then those Americans not participating in the culture war will get off their ass and participate.

[Slings and Arrows]

THERE ARE NO HOMOSEXUAL COWBOYS!

Err...

[Cinnamon]

Oscars have become a joke.. a transparent political machine