The two main characters were cowboys. Cowboys in love. Yet I'll make the seemingly audacious claim that this is neither a gay movie nor a cowboy movie. It is not a gay cowboy movie.
Dulcinea? Any thoughts?
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The two main characters were cowboys. Cowboys in love. Yet I'll make the seemingly audacious claim that this is neither a gay movie nor a cowboy movie. It is not a gay cowboy movie.
Dulcinea? Any thoughts?
Can I interest you two in a nice hotel room?
I feel perfectly safe with The Big Sexy. I am confident my virtue will not be tested.
I just emailed him and ended with the thought that if I spot him outside the theater I should probably not shout out, "Hey, Big Sexy! I'm over here!" [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
Nope, sorry I was at work tonight.
Still a few couple week old releases I wanna see, and that new Hoops flick abot the Texas Weslean (sp) team that was the first to start 5 black players in an NCAA Championship game.
That school is now UTEP!
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It was one of those things where you had to pay attention closely, and if you remembered who was wearing what at that point in time, it really changes the meaning of that scene in Jack's boyhood bedroom.Quote:
It might have been a throwaway line if you didn't know already what had happened.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes, which is wrapped around which. And the last scene where they are together, the "what about August" scene, Ennis is holding Jack whereas it was always before the other way.Quote:
Originally posted by The Big Sexy:
It was one of those things where you had to pay attention closely, and if you remembered who was wearing what at that point in time, it really changes the meaning of that scene in Jack's boyhood bedroom.
I'm going to have to see it again, I think. I am sure that I missed a lot of subtle things.
Wait, I was totally wrong. How could I have forgotten THIS scene?? (quote from story, but very much well represented in movie)
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What Jack remembered and craved in a way he could neither help nor understand was the time that distant summer on Brokeback when Ennis had come up behind him and pulled him close, the silent embrace satisfying some shared and sexless hunger.
They had stood that way for a long time in front of the fire, its burning tossing ruddy chunks of light, the shadow of their bodies a single column against the rock. The minutes ticked by from the round watch in Ennis?s pocket, from the sticks in the fire settling into coals. Stars bit through the wavy heat layers above the fire. Ennis?s breath came slow and quiet, he hummed, rocked a little in the sparklight, and Jack leaned against the steady heartbeat, the vibrations of the humming like faint electricity and, standing, he fell into sleep that was not sleep but something else drowsy and tranced until Ennis, dredging up a rusty but still usable phrase from the childhood time before his mother died, said, ?Time to hit the hay, cowboy. I got a go. Come on, you?re sleepin on your feet like a horse,? and gave Jack a shake, a push, and went off in the darkness. Jack heard his spurs tremble as he mounted, the words ?See you tomorrow,? and the horse?s shuddering snort, grind of hoof on stone.
Later, that dozy embrace solidified in his memory as the single moment of artless, charmed happiness in their separate and difficult lives. Nothing marred it, even the knowledge that Ennis would not then embrace him face to face because he did not want to see or feel that it was Jack he held. And maybe, he thought, they?d never got much farther than that. Let be, let be.
This is simply a love story.
The cowboy thing leads me to say that one take-away from the movie is: Do not under any circumstances whatsoever live in rural Wyoming.
The gay thing is there for the purpose of setting up the "forbidden love" aspect that is necessary for the angst.
One last post before I head off to bed:
There are some who want to portray this movie as a glamorization of infidelity. It does absolutely nothing of the sort.
If anything, one of the things Brokeback Mountain does best is depict the pain of Ennis's wife in particular. The moment of her realization is one of those "WOW" moments where it is impossible to not feel her intense pain.
As I mentioned before, the storytelling is good. It takes its good ol' time doing so, but it tells the story well, without an agenda. BBM should be applauded for being extraordinarily realistic.
Very much true to life.
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 14, 2006 10:30 AM: Message edited by: The Big Sexy ]</font>
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">One thing I think the movie does well is demonstrate how Ennis and Jack fell into the relationship in a rather spontaneous, accidental way. Then it stuck.Quote:
Originally posted by Dulcinea:
This is simply a love story.
The cowboy thing leads me to say that one take-away from the movie is: Do not under any circumstances whatsoever live in rural Wyoming.
The gay thing is there for the purpose of setting up the "forbidden love" aspect that is necessary for the angst.
The story is about the one true love that could not be.