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My girlfriend and I went to see the film "Brokeback Mountain" last night, and it completely blew us away. It's about a relationship between two young guys, who are cowboys, who fall in love,but who are not able to deal with their mutual love over the years. Very intense and incredibly sad.
 
HungSpermBoy said:
My girlfriend and I went to see the film "Brokeback Mountain" last night, and it completely blew us away. It's about a relationship between two young guys, who are cowboys, who fall in love,but who are not able to deal with their mutual love over the years. Very intense and incredibly sad.
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Was it kinda like "The Bridges of Madison County", but without Eastwood and Streep?
 
HungSpermBoy said:
My girlfriend and I went to see the film "Brokeback Mountain" last night, and it completely blew us away. It's about a relationship between two young guys, who are cowboys, who fall in love,but who are not able to deal with their mutual love over the years. Very intense and incredibly sad.
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Welcome back, HSB. I'm excited to see that movie. Ang Lee's an awesome director.
 
Lex, thanks for the info on the original story....wow! what a story, will be seeing the movie later today.
 
Thanks a million, Lex. Just found the short story and started reading it. It is going to end sadly, that much is clear already. Sigh. Over here in Europe the film is being handled as one of the best outtakes on being oppressed in the US. Of course, right now it is hard to find anyone in Europe who has anything good to say about US culture. Getting very tired of being damned by association.
Hope the film comes out on DVD soon - don't want to wait until March to see it - which willl be the start date over here. How do the women come out in it? Are they just necessary stage accessories or a real part of the story?
 
The guys the create Southpark must be having a field day. The predicted 5 years ago that independent films would be about "gay cowboys sitting around a campfire, eating pudding."

I saw this movie, and it would have been more interesting if they had ate some pudding.

Big yawn.
 
Which reminds me of the story that Elvis' mother was asked whether she objected to him being called Elvis the Pelvis, and she replied that she was just glad she hadn't named him Enus. :)
 
HungSpermBoy said:
My girlfriend and I went to see the film "Brokeback Mountain" last night, and it completely blew us away. It's about a relationship between two young guys, who are cowboys, who fall in love,but who are not able to deal with their mutual love over the years. Very intense and incredibly sad.
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Yeah, you New Yorkers always get the good films first! :(

My bf and I have a date to see it as soon as it opens in Seattle.

Finally, a gay film with real actors, a real director, real production values, and an interesting and realistic plot! Unlike that crap they pass of at the gay film festivals... I can't wait!

Oh, p.s. - welcome back, we missed you! :cool:
 
Interesting note about the movie:

The guys were filiming a kissing scene and Michelle Williams (plays Ennis' wife) stopped them and told them she wasn't feeling their kissing. She told Jake Gyllenhal that he need to kiss Heath Leadger like he was trying to steal her husband. Further, she asked them to walk around the set and randomly make out in order to surprise her and to help her keep the simmering anger and resentment required of her character. The guys agreed.

I am MORE than impressed by these guys. Will Smith had the opportunity to truly play a gay love interest in "Sex Degrees of Separation" and was counseled by many, including Denzel Washington, to NOT kiss another man onscreen for fear that it could ruin his career. Smith admitted a few years ago that he regretted not doing it, saying that a true actor gets totally into his role, especially given all the money they are paid and that it wouod have been a wonderful growth oppotunity for him.
 
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Interesting note about the movie:

The guys were filiming a kissing scene and Michelle Williams (plays Ennis' wife) stopped them and told them she wasn't feeling their kissing. She told Jake Gyllenhal that he need to kiss Heath Leadger like he was trying to steal her husband. Further, she asked them to walk around the set and randomly make out in order to surprise her and to help her keep the simmering anger and resentment required of her character. The guys agreed.

I am MORE than impressed by these guys. Will Smith had the opportunity to truly play a gay love interest in "Sex Degrees of Separation" and was counseled by many, including Denzel Washington, to NOT kiss another man onscreen for fear that it could ruin his career. Smith admitted a few years ago that he regretted not doing it, saying that a true actor gets totally into his role, especially given all the money they are paid and that it wouod have been a wonderful growth oppotunity for him.
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I agree with you Lex. Black/African-American actors tend to welcome playing crack heads, and prostitutes more readily than they do playing hardcore homosexuals. Some people might say, that actors like Isiah Washington have managed to play significant (Spike Lee's Get on The Bus) gay roles without it negatively impacting their careers. But I really have not seen layered intimacy, romance, studied interioirty in most Black/African-American actors portrayal-(everything is basically a limp wrist, and a Sissy snap). At any rate, I will be seeing the movie Friday evening, and hope it will be as good as people have made it out to be.

Peace
 
More of the actor's perspectives
various articles that Lex's copied text from said:
Both Gyllenhaal and Ledger were open about their willingness to play gay lovers Jack Twist (Gyllenhaal) and Ennis Del Mar (Ledger), cowboys who revisit their attraction over a period of twenty years as Twist becomes a known rodeo performer, and Del Mar remains a ranch hand.
Ledger told the BBC in March of last year: “What is it about wrangling Jake Gyllenhaal up in the mountains that frightens me? Just that! But it obviously doesn't scare me away because I'm doing it. Aren't we at the stage these days when it just doesn't ******* matter? It's a story of love and it's a story between two people. If people can't get over that and just accept it as a story, then that's their problem. I'm big enough and brave enough to do it."
Gyllenhaal’s take on Brokeback’s romantic element was a bit more personal. “It’s about how impossible love can be sometimes and I can relate to that," he told Canada's Calgary Sun. "I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they’re attracted to another guy.”


Gyllenhaal was quoted saying that Ledger nearly broke his nose while filming a kissing scene "He grabs me and he slams me up against the wall and kisses me. And then I grab him and I slam him up against the wall and I kiss him. And we were doing take after take after take. I got the shit beat out of me.”
Despite its rich landscapes and explosive subject, ''Brokeback Mountain" is an intimate film, with few characters, sparse dialogue, and a focus on interior emotions. That's what attracted Ledger to the role of Ennis Del Mar, the taciturn ranch hand whose struggle to balance love and social obligation is at the movie's core.


''I never personally felt like I had a career at risk," Ledger says. ''If anything, it felt like an opportunity for me to mature as a person and as an actor, which is what I'd kind of been looking for."


And of shooting sex scenes with costar Jake Gyllenhaal -- the most striking one, violent and unflinching, was filmed in one morning, in 13 takes -- Ledger is almost perfunctory.
''I hate to break it to you, but it really wasn't [difficult]," Ledger says. ''Once you do the first take, you're kind of over it."
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I am very excited to see this.
 
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