brokeback mountain thread

Just a bounce to the thread. I saw the movie today. I am very impressed by the fine directing and great acting. It is very moving, and it's more about love than about gay.

 

seems like they are succeeding...

 

But the rest of that article goes on to say that maybe some of the success Brokeback having is due to the small number of theaters it's showing in. I'm sure if you were to show King Kong in a select number of theaters it would draw record per theater earnings. I'm also interested to see how Brokeback will draw in less liberal areas.

 

The point is not that movie is going to out-sell King Kong, I don't think it will. But it's showing the success it is having, given the controvercy around it, and the prediction from some "experts" (what's new) and some posters here. If you haven't seen it, box office success or not, it's a very well-made movie, I would recommend you to see it.

 

I have seen the preview for this one a few times on TV. If I didn't know what the movies was really about, by looking at the previews it looks like a regular love story, not cowboy on cowboy love.

 

Well, if you're showing a gay film primarily in San Francisco and other liberal parts of America it will do well. When you try to show it in other parts of America I bet it will tank.

I'll watch the movie when it comes out on video just because of the great reviews it's been getting, but I have no interest in seeing it. Just like if you were to ask a gay guy to go see Wedding Crashers, Terminator, Any Given Sunday etc.. They probably wouldn't be interested because it's not their thing. Just like a gay love story is not my thing.

 

In fact, gay love story is really not my thing either. Well, who knows, maybe I am a closet gay as well I trust Ang Lee, and I got curious after seeing so many reviews. I am glad I went to see it, although a little uncomfortable about those scence. But like Austin said, it's more a love story than a gay love story.

 

I agree. I am a big fan of Ang Lee and I am happy that he probably has a shot for Oscar because of this movie.

But I haven't decided to watch this movie or not. No disrespect for gay ppl, but seeing a love story between two men on screen is just too weird to me. I think I will feel uncomfortable. Guess I am just too conservative on social issues.

 

What I said was the previews don't show a gay love story, in my eyes.

 

Have you seen Wedding Banquet?

 

Brokeback Mountain will never be the greatest gay cowboy movie around as long as people still remember Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

 

You obviously haven't seen Midnight Cowboy.

 

No. But I am now!

 

I haven't seen Wedding Crashers yet but there's a lot of latent homoeroticism in Terminator and Any Given Sunday or almost any sports movie.

 

whoa I just saw this reply

I went to Beijing, Shanghai, Canton, Fuzhou, and Guizhou this summer. It was pretty much the same in terms of male PDA everywhere. If we had any Chinese people from China who ever posted in D&D, they could probably give better insight.

 

Defenders of the frontier?

"A cowboy (Spanish vaquero) tends cattle and horses on cattle ranches in North and South America. The cowboy is in charge of the horses, as is the wrangler. In addition to ranch work, some cowboys work in and participate in rodeos, and many cowboys work only in the rodeo."

That was from Wikipedia: not a definitive source, but very similar to what I learned in college History classes. Another thing I learned (and reverified at that website)? About 30% of cowboys, at least in the late 1800s during thier peak activity, were black and/or hispanic. How many cowboy movies do you remember with blacks or hispanics as central characters?

My point is this: the image that most of us have maintained of cowboys is based largely on fictional and idealized accounts. I remember hearing one commentator state that Brokeback was just the East Coast intellectuals idea of what they thought cowboys should be. Well, considering how much of the imagery was developed wholesale by screenwriters and novelists for almost a century, hasn't that always been the case? This is just taking it in another direction.

 

Like other's have said, I didn't see this with in China at all. It's very rare for Asian males to show PDA any where, especially to another guy.

 

Here's a well-written article from someone who definitely feels the movie has political intentions:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48076

 

It's basically a chick flick with the chick replaced by a dude.

Big deal.