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TOTW 18/07: Do you think classic cowboy icons like the "Marlboro Man" were proto
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on February 22, 2008, 12:18:10 am ---For me, the quintessential Brokeback predecessor is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Like BBM, it's a revisionist, rather than classic, Western. And the homoerotic undertones are there, if not the actual sex. I loved that movie!
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Just some nice pics related to this film. :)
<img src="http://www.divshare.com/img/3855442-057.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://www.divshare.com/img/3855440-7f6.jpg" border="0" />
<img src="http://www.divshare.com/img/midsize/3855441-46a.jpg" border="0" />
<img src="http://www.divshare.com/img/midsize/3855444-585.jpg" border="0" />
(1969)
serious crayons:
Nice images, Bud! Thanks for posting. Those last two are kind of BBMesque. Especially the second-to-last one, which reminds me a little of the post-Thanksgiving-camping scene. (Yes, I know, you Westerners, that it would be hard to get a photo of two guys wearing cowboy hats and crossing a river on horseback that DIDN'T look like that! ;))
Meanwhile, over on the Heath news threads, LauraGigs posted a good essay about Heath from The Advocate.
http://www.advocate.com/issue_story.asp?id=52310&page=1
Here's a passage that's significant for this thread:
--- Quote ---One of the most compelling stories, one likely to grow with time, compares Ledger to James Dean. Beyond its most obvious connection, it’s an instructive primer of the homoerotic ingredients that go into creating a masculine icon.
Rebel Without a Cause gave Dean his most famous role, and though the character was straight, he was the object of homosexual desire (and informed by the actor’s own sexual ambiguity). In spite of that—or, I’d posit, because of it—Dean’s Jim Stark became a classic masculine archetype. Ledger’s Ennis Del Mar, though, wasn’t merely the object of gay interest—he was gay himself. The character was iconic from the time Brokeback was released, but Ledger’s early death—and the photos of Heath as Ennis that accompanied nearly every obituary—has hastened his entry into the pantheon of on-screen masculinity.
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Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on February 23, 2008, 03:30:22 pm ---
Meanwhile, over on the Heath news threads, LauraGigs posted a good essay about Heath from The Advocate.
http://www.advocate.com/issue_story.asp?id=52310&page=1
Here's a passage that's significant for this thread:
--- Quote ---One of the most compelling stories, one likely to grow with time, compares Ledger to James Dean. Beyond its most obvious connection, it’s an instructive primer of the homoerotic ingredients that go into creating a masculine icon.
Rebel Without a Cause gave Dean his most famous role, and though the character was straight, he was the object of homosexual desire (and informed by the actor’s own sexual ambiguity). In spite of that—or, I’d posit, because of it—Dean’s Jim Stark became a classic masculine archetype. Ledger’s Ennis Del Mar, though, wasn’t merely the object of gay interest—he was gay himself. The character was iconic from the time Brokeback was released, but Ledger’s early death—and the photos of Heath as Ennis that accompanied nearly every obituary—has hastened his entry into the pantheon of on-screen masculinity.
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Hey Bud,
Thanks for bringing this quotation over here! It certainly is interesting. I just came back from buying this magazine at Barnes and Noble. It was actually a really touching experience... the young woman at the check-out counter stopped and looked at the cover for a notably long time and said "boy, it's a real shame he died."
So, anyway, In this article they also include an image of a painting by Thom Bierdz titled Lost Cowboys that combines a portrait of Heath with an image of James Dean that's clearly based on this photo:
<img src="http://www.divshare.com/img/3109699-f19.gif" border="0" />
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: atz75 on February 24, 2008, 03:20:54 pm ---So, anyway, In this article they also include an image of a painting by Thom Bierdz titled Lost Cowboys that combines a portrait of Heath with an image of James Dean that's clearly based on this photo:
<img src="http://www.divshare.com/img/3109699-f19.gif" border="0" />
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Is there a picture of Heath where he's posed the same way? Or are the pictures of Heath and James combined in Photoshop??
Can you show us the original photos??
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 24, 2008, 04:32:45 pm ---Is there a picture of Heath where he's posed the same way? Or are the pictures of Heath and James combined in Photoshop??
Can you show us the original photos??
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No, there's no photoshop involved. It's a painting that this guy did.. with an image of Heath and James Dean side by side in front of a landscape. The image of Heath in the painting is Ennis-y but, I'm not aware of a specific corresponding photo (although I'm sure there is one since the image of Dean in the painting is directly taken from the photo above... but again this is a painting not a photo collage).
I'd love to post the image, but I don't have a scanner or a digital camera. It's on page 31 of The Advocate.
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