Come Anticipate "Brokeback Mountain" With Me

I thought Heath Ledger gave the best performance in "Monsters Ball" --I don't care much about accent authenticity, and if only Halle Berry's character had blown her brains out before she did all that caterwauling.

but . . .

I am totally stoked to see them make out with each other.

OW OW OW

Because it is magnificent. Like George Michael's ass, it will one day rule the world.

I've got a GREAT ASS!! Let's go to the video!

Except, particularly with movies, the lionized/cherished love stories seldom see the couple together at the end (exempting comedies -- or unless they're ghosts).

"Maurice" is most definitely wish fulfillment.

And yes, dramatic film love stories generally don't end happily ever after. I'm sure there's several where the story is about all sorts of horrible shit people do to each other or endure and then everything works out in the end anyway, but I can't remember any of 'em off the top of my head.

to provide the source texts so that I'm not badly summarizing:

People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but if the next day they're smiling, holding hands and tenderly embracing one another, then they can't be forgiven. It is not the departure for pleasure that is intolerable, it is the waking up happy.- Michel Foucault

A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood. I dedicated it 'To a Happier Year' and not al together vainly. Happiness is its keynote - which by the way . . . has made the book more difficult to publish. If it ended unhappily, with a lad dangling from a noose or with a suicide pact, all would be well . . . but the lovers get away unpunished and consequently recommend crime. - E. M. Forster

The question is one of what makes a story worth telling; a story of a happy couple who stay together without incident would be boring, and of course no one would make a film about it. But . . . the imperative that gay sex lead to death and punishment in the name of realism reifies the very problem it depicts/memorializes, and this is a strategic, political problem for how we represent gay existence. It's got nothing to do with whether Annie Proulx's story is well written and moving (which it certainly is in my opinion).

Ultimately, Brokeback Mountain is an anachronism. After one furtive night on the mountain, Jake and Heath are able to analyze their nascent relationship through an early 21st century lens, as though they’d had the benefit of six seasons of Will & Grace behind them.

A lot of this films are awful, but all of them feature a great Keaton performance.

(And I haven't even mentioned her Kay in The Godfather series)

http://towleroad.typepad.com/towleroad/2005/11/gyllenhaal_in_d.html

Proulx may well mitigate the course of many confused, love starved raging hearts...with 68 small pages (large typeset). Amazing. The book/movie underlines,capitalizes and italycizes auto-betrayal of the heart and unites its close cousins - anguish and hoplessness. This rendition of love exposes, in its tortuous lesson, the 'right key'. Timely

The story makes it clear that Jack's been twistin' before Ennis.

this movie

Seems like Randy Quaid's actin' like mean ol' Joe Aguirre:
Randy Quaid Sues Over 'Brokeback'
Actor claims producers defrauded him

TMZ obtained a copy of the lawsuit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming producers falsely represented the movie to him as "a low-budget, art house film, with no prospect of making any money." Quaid claims the representations were a ruse from the beginning. 'Brokeback' has grossed around $160 million.

Quaid's suit claims that in 2004, he met with director Ang Lee, who offered him the role of Joe Aguirre. The suit alleges that Lee told Quaid: "We can't pay anything, we have very little money, everyone is making a sacrifice to make this film."

The suit does not specifically state how much Quaid made, but it does claim that the defendants "were engaged in a 'movie laundering' scheme designed to obtain the services of talent such as Randy Quaid on economically unfavorable art film terms..."

The suit asks for $10 million in damages as well as punitive damages. It also seeks "restitution for all ill-gotten gains."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto)

foreshadowing of crazy?

Guessing Randy would love to work under economically unfavorable art film terms now

http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2005_Brokeback_Mountain/005BBM_Randy_Quaid_005.jpg

lol that randy quaid screenshot

it took me a while to see this, but i thought it was a pip

i guess the ending was a little 'tragic homo' but i thought it was great anyway

Coming to London:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Frqhn7VXgAA4niC?format=jpg&name=900x900

Was just wondering what happened to Lucas Hedges ...

He had himself fitted for Heath Ledger's jacket.

"A play with music" but definitely NOT a gay-ass musical, heavens no!

I can imagine Faist as Jack Twist more easily than Hedges as Ennis del Mar.

I can definitely imagine them in those roles better than the inverse.