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TOTW 11/07: How will moviegoers view BBM 30 years from now?
jstephens9:
--- Quote from: Kd5000 on October 15, 2007, 06:29:45 pm ---
DO hope there is never a remake. Sometimes a classic is best left untouched. By 2035 Hollywood will start looking at successful films in the first decade of the 21rst century and wonder if BBM would be an excellent candidate for a remake.
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I sure do hope there is not a remake. That sure does seem to be a sure way to destroy a movie (or even a tv show).
Shakesthecoffecan:
--- Quote from: jstephens9 on October 16, 2007, 02:04:46 pm ---I agree. I don't see BBM as a film about homophobia unless we mean homophobia against oneself. If you think about it, the only shows of outside homophobia are when Ennis talks about the rancher that was killed with the tire iron that his father showed him and his vision of how Jack was killed. The rest of the movie rests on Ennis' own fear of how others will see him if they knew. Granted, more than likely, others would not approve, but that is never actually shown. There are indications of homophobia, but the other characters never come out and say things against homosexuality. Even Alma's "Jack Nasty" doesn't show much more than jealousy. She could have said a lot worse about Jack and Ennis. That's my thoughts anyway.
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I think you pretty well zeroed in on it there Jack. I can really see where most of that struggle took place in Ennis' head.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Shakestheground on October 16, 2007, 03:53:05 pm ---I think you pretty well zeroed in on it there Jack. I can really see where most of that struggle took place in Ennis' head.
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In Ennis's head or out, none of this negates Annie's well-known comment, in "Getting Movied," that "Brokeback Mountain" is a story about the destructive effect of rural homophobia.
Shakesthecoffecan:
--- Quote from: Fran on October 16, 2007, 09:43:00 am ---
"I wish," Proulx said. "But one year after the story was published, Matthew Shepard was killed less than [48 kilometres] from where I live. I was called to be on the jury for one of the killers."[/i]
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Thank you for finding that Fran, I knew I remembered it from somewhere.
Kd5000:
Does the homophobia need to be verbalized for it to exist?? No doubt there were and still are alot of unspoken rules. Jack and Ennis are both closeted. What would have happend if they has lived together or at least been more open about their relationship. Would Ennis have been allowed to see his daughters if he was living with a man? Would they have been harassed by their neighbors. Would someone have gone out one night and shot their livestock if they did have a cattle and calf operation. No doubt they could have faced social ostracizing or worse. Best bet would have been to move to Denver... That wasn't going to happen.
Ennis and Jack lived in very ignorant times. No doubt they had their share of internalized homophobia as they both can't deal with the queer label.
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