I live under a rock, and I just saw Brokeback Mtn for the first time

[Taverner]

OMG that is a sad movie...beautiful movie but so sad

That soundtrack...so fucking haunting...

[BrendaBrick]

1. Yeah. Originated from a New Yorker article/short story from what I understand. n/t

[CBGLuthier]

6. Annie Proulx 1997 New Yorker

She also wrote The Shipping News but that movie did not turn out very well.

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. MFM was chosen to star in the original (tentatively titled "Babyhead Mountain")...

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[bigwillq]

3. Indeed a beautiful movie.

I cry everytime I watch it.
One of the finest movies ever made. T

[Taverner]

4. Anyone who can watch that and not cry their eyes out has no heart

[CBGLuthier]

5. The movie was sad enough when Mr. Ledger was alive

Now that would just add one more layer and may make it more than one could stand.

[Taverner]

7. That part made it hard to watch

Some folks feel he was a horrible actor.

I dunno, after seeing this and The Dark Knight I think he was one of the best

Too bad we didn't get to enjoy him more

[elleng]

8. Some rock!

[Xipe Totec]

10. I'm right behind him

Haven't seen it yet...

Precisely because it is so sad.

[nolabear]

9. There's nothing like doing the ugly cry in a theater.

I mean, I cry at the drop of a plot point but I try to be subtle about it. Brokeback Mountain? Not so much. You'd have thought somebody had run over my dog. Fortunately there was sobbing and snorking and hiccuping all around me so I didn't feel too bad.

My favorite thing, really, about the movie is that it gave me a lovely insight into how two men in love are still men, and it has a different playfulness about it than the relationship between a man and woman or two women. I have many gay friends but like most of us they have public faces in public, and I hadn't thought about this. I was so charmed by that boyishness and whack-you-on-the-arm quality.

[femmocrat]

11. I have never seen it.

Not much of a movie-goer and haven't found it on TV yet.

[RebelOne]

15. I am certain that you could find it at NetFlix. n/t

[UTUSN]

12. Well, my review was unpopular THEN and will be NOW.

The "cowboy" angle made the whole thing look like it was a role game, like being attracted to uniforms in The Village People.

A fair response back then was, it would be easy for the story to be about Gay choreographers in Greenich Village instead of (supposed) cowboys.


So, the costumes got in the way of the message.


But Black Swan devotees also jumped on me for calling that a horror movie, so there.

[Taverner]

13. However, neither character chose to be coyboy or gay

So I'm not sure I agree with your point

[nolabear]

14. WTF???

Village People? Choreographers? Greenwich Village? Costumes?

Do you KNOW any gay people? Lessee, among my gay friends there are doctors, ministers, a trucker, a commercial fisherman, a tugboat captain, writers, a museum curator, therapists, computer programmers, a fireman, and several Indians (both American and India-born). Costumes? Seriously?