I'd even watch a film about Gay Cannibal Slashers, so wonder what I am,
heck even wise ones would be OK.
Ari
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From: Bruce Hershenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Brokeback Mountain
Date: 03/01/2006 08:59
>
> I guess this has a lot to do with how you were brought up and your
> views on homosexuality. If you are a man who finds it
"disgusting"
> to see two men kiss IN ANY CONTEXT, then certainly you should not see
> this movie. But if there is some kind of thought in your head that
> this is some kind of gay "porno" movie, then you have been sadly
misinformed.
>
> Another director Anthony Minghella made two movies with a similar
> "unrequited love" theme, Cold Mountain, and The English Patient,
and
> in both cases you could easily re-cast the lead woman's role with a
> man, and the movies would be little changed, except for a few brief
> love scenes that would now be repellent to some of you, but the rest
> of the movie would essentially be the same. Incidentally, I am not
> particularly a fan of either of these movies, in large part due to
> their glacial pacing.
>
> Are some of you unaware that Hollywood has been making lots of
"gay"
> themed movies for many, many years, but until recently they usually
> had to re-cast one of the leads as a woman (or make the male leads
> just "best friends") to make those movies acceptable to
mainstream
> "straight" audiences. Think of "Of Human Bondage" or
"Midnight
> Cowboy". Does knowing the writers of these movies were writing about
> gay people make them any less great movies?
>
> Like Kirby I have not seen Brokeback Mountain yet, but I will travel
> quite a distance to see it in a theater (my tiny town in the middle
> of the Bible Belt will never air it). Ang Lee is surely one of the
> finest directors alive, and if you want to see two really incredible
> movies, watch Eat Drink Man Woman and The Wedding Banquet (oh wait,
> two of the main characters in that one are gay, so I guess you should
> forget Wedding Banquet).
>
> I find it strange that some people can say, I would never see
> Brokeback Mountain due to its theme, and at the same time be fans of
> gore movies or slasher movies or cannibal movies (come to think of
> it, maybe that isn't very strange).
>
> Bruce
>
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