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"Brokeback Fever Pitch," "I 'Cowbot", and other sequels....
TOoP/Bruce:
by - bjblakeslee (Thu Apr 27 2006 14:28:32 )
"Mo' Bettermost Beans Blues"
PLOT SYNOPSIS:
Set in Lightning Flats 1948, "Mo' Bettermost Beans Blues" tells the tale of young John Twist, a selfish harmonica player who runs a country harmonica club. John Twist is caught between two women; Veronica is a sexy needy bombshell of a cabaret singer, and Betty, a dowdy but highly religious Pentecostal Christian. At his harmonica club, John Twist is sitting on his pockets and not in his control zone as he tries to pay bills, and deal with a friend's gambling problems, and tries keep playing Veronica and Betty and long as he can. Twist is rendered as the protagonist despite his charming and manipulative nature. The plot's a bit thin, but a music video treatment helps carry through the dead spots.
This movie ends almost exactly the way it started, except that now John Twist is an adult whose son Jack is practicing the harmonica, and this time the boy gets to go out and play with the horses in the dirt road.
Who knew Harmonica music could be so crazy-sexy-cool?
TOoP/Bruce:
by - bjblakeslee (Thu Apr 27 2006 14:30:10 )
"RASH!" (What if Paul Haggis had written Brokeback Mountain?)
PLOT SYNOPSIS:
A gay married couple from Sage who own a horse ranch. A gay Basque store owner who rides horses. Two gay police detectives on horseback who are also lovers. A gay Native-American television director and his significant other who film documentaries about gay cowboys. A gay Mexican locksmith on horseback. Two gay horse-jackers. A gay rookie cop on horseback. Two gay ranch hands (Jack and Ennis)looking for work as shepherds...A middle-aged gay Korean couple who ride gay horses…
They all live in Signal, Wyoming. During the next 36 hours, all these horses will collide…
"We scratch ourselves only that we might feel something," Jack woefully opines -- and that pretty well sums it up.
RASH is contageous, scabrous, and an often superficial and irritating look at human relations that barely begins to scratch the surface of gay racial tolerance and mutual gay sexual attraction in Wyoming. RASH is both a brilliant metaphor for a highly contageous skin condition, and the tendency to react with absolutely no thought whatsoever. This mildly compelling gay suburban drama tracks the volatile intersections of a multi-ethnic cast of gay characters’ struggles to overcome their fears of gay rejection as they sleep with each other casually and promise to call again. In the gay area between gay black people and gay white people, gay victims and gay aggressors, gay Basque shepherds and gay caucasion shepherds, there are simply no cheap wrinkle creams or salves…
Somewhat plausible, semi-powerful, and as always, entirely risible, RASH unfortunately reminds us of the futility of tolerance as it ventures beyond purebred horse blood-lines…and uncovers a uncomfortable truth regarding the rural gay community. I have a dream, that one day, all gay people will be judged not by the color of their horses' hair, but rather by their contempt for their charicatures.
The cast features damn near everyone in Hollywood in cameo parts including: Nick Lachey, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Justin Timberlake, Antonio Banderas, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Ewan McGregor, Ryan Phillippe, Larenz Tate, Michael Pitt, Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal, Tony Leung, and the Chippendales Dancers.
TOoP/Bruce:
by - bjblakeslee (Thu Apr 27 2006 14:31:46 )
"Muscle and Flow"
PLOT SYNOPSIS:
JackT tires of his life of running a gay escort service in El Paso. He yearns to ditch it all and become a Gospel and Country Western Harmonica Star.
He sells the business, and takes a job watching sheep on Brokeback Mountain. He meets a really repressed guy named Ennis and does the best he can to draw him out in coversation. JackT comes to realize that nothing beats a good roll in the tent when it comes to making conversation, and the two forge a life-long bond.
They go their separate ways, and JackT successfully avoids the draft, but he has big dreams to fulfill. What he wants is chance to get up off his pockets and enter his control zone.
JackT runs into an old friend at a dance, Ran-dahl, a sound engineer who inspires Jack to get his butt moving. JackT pulls it all together and lays down some of the ice-coldest, deffest, hardcore harmonica tracks ever committed to an 8 track tape, but now he really has to pack on some hardcore muscle, and hustle a few last tricks, if he’s ever going to flow.
TOoP/Bruce:
by - bjblakeslee (Fri Apr 28 2006 03:32:59 )
"101 Damnations"
PLOT SYNOPSIS:
"I must a wrung it out a hunderd times thinkin a you."
So Ennis tells Jack in a motel room after their big reunion. This film documents each of those "hunderd" times and the horrific guilt Ennis carries with him in the aftermath of a perfectly natural biological function.
TOoP/Bruce:
by - bjblakeslee (Fri Apr 28 2006 03:34:35 )
"Guess Who's Humming to Dinner?"
PLOT SYNOPSIS:
Pentecostals Mr. and Mrs. Twist have raised their son Jack to try not to think for himself and to blindly conform to the conventional views of morality. Needless to say, they've totally failed. Nothing in the Twist's limited social experience can begin to prepare them for Jack's return from herding sheep one summer with a hot new "best friend" in tow: poor, inarticulate, sexually repressed, and socially awkward Ennis Delmar.
The family prepares for dinner, and are joined by a local Catholic priest, and Ennis's brother and sister. Ennis exchanges intimate glances with Jack, embracing him from behind, and humming softly in his ear.
Jack's father is dead set against this union, but Jack is determined to marry Ennis at a unique gay church in Mexico City. He wants his parents blessings, but will go ahead with the marriage no matter what people think about it. Ennis however tells John Twist (Jack's dad) that he will not consider marriage until he receives the unqualified approval of both Mr. and Mrs. Twist.
Complications ensue, and John Twist delivers a touching monologue at the end revealing an inspiring and totally unbelievable change of heart.
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