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.”

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[Cindy]

OPINION: I don't understand why Hollyweird would be shocked?

GENERALLY SPEAKING, The homosexual agenda IS their agenda.
Anything that is disgusting and despicable is the Hollyweird trend.

There are very few really good movies produced anymore by the
Hollyweird crowd.

That is why conservatives and Christians look elsewhere for
entertainment TV/Movies/Videos/CDs etc.

[laney]

I just watched the trailer, and it didn't seem to focus on the *gay* issue, rather than 2 guys who became too close on the range and were best friends, maybe like a Sheepherder and a sheep

[Ghengis]

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.

We are told by Film Industry insiders that the reason they do not make westerns is because they don't do well in the European market. I guess they found a Western genre film for the nuanced European tastes with this one.

[Americanexpat]

Hollywood has flooded us with movies about the homosexual lifestyle and you can barely watch TV without seeing it. So why would be be surprised about faggot cowboys? Just another way hollywood defends it's lifestyle.

[radiohead]

reattached years later, and carried it forward......homes and family notwithstanding.

That was unclear in the preview. You could take it as a one night thing, but scenes also reminded me of the movie w/Alan Alda, Same Time Next Year, in which he has an affair once a year, for many years, with the same woman. I saw the families and wondered if the guys were still getting together, but when I asked my friend if they kept seeing each other, she said no.

Thanks for clearing it up. The idea still sucks, tho. No reason to see this one.

[BansheeBill]

Tell you one thing podner, this is the only gay cowboy movie I'll ever watch:

[Rastus]

Havok pretty much took care of that.

[DustyMoment]

What a load of BS!! First, this article is hyping a film that won an award at a Colorado film festival. Colorado - second to California in its liberalism.

Then, there is the hype about Hollywood being "rocked" by this film!! Even more BS. Hollyweird is the gay capital of the US, second only to San Francisco, so this wouldn't surprise them, either. The only thing that may "surprise" the Hollyweirdos is that a "gay" movie won an award in a gay-friendly part of the country - and even THAT shouldn't be a big news flash.

[Theresawithanh]

Your red highlighted words say it all. For someone like me, who thinks a person's sexual preference is THEIR business, and I don't really care. I detest the way that the gay lifestyle is shoved in our faces, and if we don't "accept" it, we are intolerant homophobes.

[visualops]

maybe like a Sheepherder and a sheep

lol!

[PilloryHillary]

Disgusting, yet amazing. And yet, Hollywood wonders why their movie ticket sales have plummeted.

[Rastus]

I wouldn't look for any CYA (heh) from Gyllenhall. He's the guy who said the only bad part about making the movie is that Ledger slammed him against the wall a little too hard in the big sex scene (shudder). He said he thinks all guys have a gay side. I think he ought to just speak for himself there.

[SDGOP]

What a load of BS!! First, this article is hyping a film that won an award at a Colorado film festival. Colorado - second to California in its liberalism.

Isnt Colorado a red state?

[sayfer bullets]

The Orcs are thumbing their nose at Middle Earth every year:

[Rastus]

That's because trailers are designed to get as many people as possible into the theater. They don't want to advertise the aspect that will keep normal people away.

[rlmorel]

Yup... when "Shakespeare in Love" got it over "Saving Private Ryan"...that was the last time I ever watched that crap.

[laney]

He also had that sex scene on the wall in Jarhead maybe that's his thing...

[Rastus]

Midnight Cowboy is not a cowboy movie;

No, but it does feature gay sex, so the comparison is apt.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

Um, no, because I don't think any Dad would name their son Bambi.

Just ain't gonna happen.