Wayne Besen - Author, Activist, Columnist, Public Speaker

Friday, December 09, 2005

Brokeback Mountain is being unveiled theatres. Let's make sure it is a hit, so Hollywood will make more movies with hot gay cowboys. Let's try to ensure this movie outperforms that dreadful "Passion of the S&M Mel Gibson Christ" movie. Get yourself tickets and take your straight friends. Art is much more powerful than politics at changing hearts and minds. Movies such as this create real and profound cultural change. Plus, the cowboys look good in their jeans.

13 Comments:

I can't wait to see that movie! I am so glan Wong Lee produced it. He is a great director. It took courage for him to do that. Good for him. This will open doors to the future.

Mark H. -- Seattle
posted by Anonymous, at 12/09/2005 10:58 AM

FINALLY there is interest in the IGRA!

And I know western-style shirts are in style (the ones with pearlized snaps). This should cement this houte couture fad.
posted by cowboy, at 12/09/2005 11:50 AM

hey...I am RUNNING to see this.
1. I love Annie Proulx's books.

2. Who can resist Jake G.
Those EYES....

3. Even if the Canadian Rockies stand in for
Wyoming's landscape...it's God's country.

4. Don't forget your hankies...about three of them.

5. Did I mention Jake G's eyes?
posted by Regan, at 12/09/2005 12:53 PM

I'll go see it, but honestly I'm sick to death of hearing about this movie. I've been hearing about it for at least two years back when they started guessing who was going to be cast.

I hope it lives up to all the hype.
posted by Randy - NYC, at 12/09/2005 3:49 PM

The movie is fantastic! At least there is something to counteract the "Ophra" effect created by the so called "Down low". The movie express in a very beautig=ful way that non of us need to even be familiar with the term "Gay" to feel love and sexual attraction for a person of the same gender.

What is sad is that many so called critics (like th ones at the "Gay City News' in New York City can not hide the discomfort that still causes to openly gay men to see two men discovering the beauty of the same sex act of love.

The New York times got it, it is about discovering... I think that, in order to really explain to the Stone hearted fundamentalists that there is nothing "evil" or "deviated" or "sinful" about two men or two women making love, when it comes from deep inside... so much for "Intelligent design"!
posted by Anonymous, at 12/09/2005 6:52 PM

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/articles/051212fr_archive01

Above I posted the link to the original story publizised for a first time at "The New Yorker"
posted by Anonymous, at 12/09/2005 7:05 PM

It is a movie we could not miss... Mr Lee is one of my favorite director, I can not wait to see it... I know the sound track is already on sale now... Hope the movie will show on the cinema soon...

Kim
posted by Anonymous, at 12/09/2005 10:58 PM

ah, a real mainstream film about love between two men that isn't perverse, silly, or lacking script!

Thank you Ang Lee and Annie Proulx!
posted by Dal, at 12/10/2005 12:13 AM

I can't wait to see it and word has it from my friends in "selected cities" that have seen it ... L-O-V-E it.

Unfortunately its being released so selectively who knows when it'll make it out here in the stix! :>(

--
Paul in Houston, TX
posted by Anonymous, at 12/12/2005 7:51 AM

I can't wait!

We see it this coming Saturday and I am so excited.

For those people unsure where to find this film, just type Brokeback Mountain in yahoo and at the top is a directory by zip code.

I agree with Wayne: see it, support it. We've waited so long for this film.
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posted by Christopher, at 12/12/2005 10:32 AM

Only 154 copies of this film have been made which explains why its only playing in limited places. I'll go run to see it.

Robert, NYC.
posted by Anonymous, at 12/12/2005 2:10 PM

I just saw it this morning.
This is a very good movie.

Tender Mercies, A Place in the Heart, good.

Imagine, if Ennis had never been taken to see the lynched body of a presumably gay neighbor.
Jack, the balls out risk taker...tried to persuade him.
Ennis, taking to safer ground, didn't want to take himself beyond the boundaries that homophobia placed around him.

The women aren't strongly portrayed in this movie.
But that's the point.
This is the place of the unsuspecting or even suspecting straight spouse.
The rural landscape sure was the greatest star in this movie, and more than a cautionary tale on the coulda, shoulda, wouldas...when people are left alone to follow their young lionhearts.
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