Posted on 11/06/2005 5:01:03 PM PST by RWR8189
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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...
Sense and Sensibility is one of my all time favorites. It was sheer joy. The acting, superb....
I don;t know. But I will do a bit of research.
Isn't that the truth.
You mean lower than last year's? I used to love the Oscars...really...we would have Oscar parties, etc. I can't stand these people anymore...they are overpaid, undertalented and downright scary in their thought of themselves.
Why does Drudge always put stuff up about homosexuals and AIDS. This is a sickening movie and I don't believe Drudge needed to put it on his website.
Umm, I don't think it's wise to use the words crap and come in the same sentence when discussing this film...
yeehaw? shooting balloons with blanks?
Million Dollar Baby was a great movie. Did you even see it? I will say this ONE MORE TIME. It did not glorify euthanasia. It just told a story...that's all.
Susan: Tell us in a reasonable amount of details the story of Lesbian Spank Inferno. Come on, tell us the moving tale of the fifteen spanking lesbians.
Sally: I have never understood the male obsession with lesbianism. A whole area of sex with nothing for them to do. I just answered my own question.
Susan: I think they like to imagine they can get in there and convert them.
Patrick: exactly
...
Susan: Anyway, I think Steve was going to tell us all a story unless of course hes too embarrassed
Steve: OK, erm, Lesbian Spank Inferno opens with five lesbian film makers, a collective you might say, who were having a competition to see who can make the best lesbian film
Susan: film makers?
Steve: yep, independent film makers
Susan: meaning?
Steve: meaning, theyre the kind of girls who don't want to deal with the studio bosses, focus groups, all that industry smoozing
Susan: meaning theyve got cameras in their bedrooms
Steve: so neatly avoiding the whole studio system
Susan: very clever
Steve: yes. So during the opening act of the film they are meeting up to see each others' films and see who did the best one
Sally: and Im guessing we see all the films
Steve: exactly, we see a film inside a film as the tension mounts
Jill: do those films have plots too?
Steve: no, they're more mood pieces
Susan: expressionistic
Steve: very much so
Jeff: at the top of their voices
Steve: yes thank you Jeff you can stop helping me now. So basically they watch the films and pick a winner. So, thats the movie. There you go.
Susan: so what does the winner get? Isnt she presented with a trophy or something?
Steve: erm, yeah, she gets a sort of trophy
Jeff: a trophy? Oh that!
Susan: what kind of trophy?
Jeff: three speeds.
Steve: yes you can stop helping my now, Jeff
Patrick: what about the spanking? not a lot of spanking there?
Steve: yes thank you for bringing that up Patrick. God knows if that had slipped by unnoticed
Patrick: no problem
Sally: so, the spanking then?
Steve: well, as a spur to future excellence amongst the lesbian film collective they decide the loser-- the one that made the worst film-- better have a bit of a spanking
Sally: she must be a bit pissed off
Steve: oddly enough she suggests it
Sally: she suggests it?
Steve: shes very dedicated
Jane: it's not much of an inferno though is it, one woman?
Steve: it goes on a bit
Susan: why is that exactly? Very strict collective is it?
Steve: well she keeps saying ooh, dont stop
Jill: why?
Steve: I think she feels quite badly about her film
Susan: still not much of an inferno, though, Steve
Steve: so, then, the winner says ooh, I want a spanking too
Jill: why?
Susan: two people still not much of an inferno
Steve: well, then they all decide that they want a bit of a spanking
Jill: yeah, but why?
Steve: sisterhood. Oh god.
Jill: how could you possibly enjoy a film like that?
Steve: because its got naked women in it. Look I like naked women, Im a bloke Im supposed to like them. Were born like that. We like naked women as soon as were pulled out of one-- halfway down the birth canal were already enjoying the view. Look it is the four pillars of the male heterosexual psyche, we like naked women, stockings, lesbians and Sean Connery best as James Bond because thats what being a boy is and if you dont like it darling join a film collective. Look I want to spend the rest of my life with the woman at the end of that table there but that does not stop me wanting me to see several thousand more naked bottoms before I die because thats what being a bloke is. When man invented fire he didnt say hey let's cook he said great now we can see naked bottoms in the dark as soon as Caxton invented the printing press we were using it to make pictures of women's naked bottoms. We have turned the internet into an enormous international database of naked bottoms. So the story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been the story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms. Frankly girls, Im not sure how insulted you really ought to be.
--Coupling ("Inferno")
You're probably right. I don't think many of them would want to spend all day in the saddle after a night "catching".
Is it just me,or is Hollywood becoming more and more irrelevant?90% of the stuff they crank out now is junk.A movie about 2 gay cowboys?Who cares besides homosexuals and the so-called liberal elite?
Yep. Saw it. We'll just have to agree to disagree.
It would be better if they just wanted to stick something in someone's eye....
So what?
They probably have to because of some stupid liberal hyper-saftely law
If you wanna post a picture of yourself riding and racking at the same time I will be happy to give you a big YEEHAW!
Looking forward to the comparison's of the ticket gate.
"The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe"
VS.
"Brokeback Mountain"
My money's on CS Lewis.
I could be more lethal to balloons with a kiddy spring loaded plastic bullet shooter.
;>)
I remember reading an article, I think it was in Rolling Stone, about gay Marines. In the article they said that going to gay bars and having sex in the barracks was pretty much a standard thing. They really went out of their way to make the Marines sound like a gay fantasy land. I imagine Hollywood expects Marines to flock to this movie.
stand still laddy!!
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