Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond > Heath Ledger Remembrance Forum

The Latest on Jake G.

<< < (38/48) > >>

MaineWriter:
Many people here have speculated about why Jake hasn't made a statement and have also commented on the importance of his Brokie fans to his career. Maybe he doesn't realize just how large or devoted his Brokie fanbase is? Maybe he doesn't realize how disappointed many of you are? How about if you write and tell him so? Here's an address:

Jake Gyllenhaal
Creative Artists Agency
9830 Wilshire Boulevard
Beverly Hills, California 90212-1825
USA

L

Shasta542:
Yeah. I've written there before.

Sent a SASE and requested a picture. No reply.

Maybe I should be more persistent -- like Truman and Andy Dufresne.

Might work if everyone wrote.

louisev:
For me, the answer to the mystery is simple: he doesn't emote in public, and he isn't going to emote to the press either.  Unfortunately that may also extend to fans of Brokeback as well.  After all, Jake was Heath's friend - not ours, and doesn't answer to us.

jstephens9:
I had the same thought as Optom concerning what Heath would have done if things would have been the other way around. Would he have made a statement about Jake? I still do find it strange that Jake has said absolutely nothing and it appears that he will not. I actually did see Maggie speaking of Heath this past Friday on Entertainment Tonight. She was talking about what a great actor he was. Maybe we were all wrong in speculating that Heath and Jake were friends outside of BBM. It certainly does seem that Jake being Matilda's godfather meant something. Who knows, maybe it was Michelle who was actually the good friend and not Heath. Maybe it was her idea to have Jake as Matilda's godfather. I think sometimes that we as Brokies may want them to be good friends in real life because their roles in BBM were so important to us. To think of them as not being friends at all and meaning nothing to each other is rather hard to think about. In some ways it shatters some of the mystique of those powerful scenes in BBM. However, we do have to remember that it was just a movie although in so many ways it transcends that. However, it can never be taken away from us how Heath and Jake did indeed bring the characters of Ennis and Jack to life. It truly does make me wonder though if Jake realized or ever realized how important that character of Jack was to so many of us. It seems that even an acknowledgment of Heath's passing would have been better than nothing.

mvansand76:

--- Quote from: jstephens9 on March 16, 2008, 12:22:22 pm ---I had the same thought as Optom concerning what Heath would have done if things would have been the other way around. Would he have made a statement about Jake? I still do find it strange that Jake has said absolutely nothing and it appears that he will not. I actually did see Maggie speaking of Heath this past Friday on Entertainment Tonight. She was talking about what a great actor he was. Maybe we were all wrong in speculating that Heath and Jake were friends outside of BBM. It certainly does seem that Jake being Matilda's godfather meant something. Who knows, maybe it was Michelle who was actually the good friend and not Heath. Maybe it was her idea to have Jake as Matilda's godfather. I think sometimes that we as Brokies may want them to be good friends in real life because their roles in BBM were so important to us. To think of them as not being friends at all and meaning nothing to each other is rather hard to think about. In some ways it shatters some of the mystique of those powerful scenes in BBM. However, we do have to remember that it was just a movie although in so many ways it transcends that. However, it can never be taken away from us how Heath and Jake did indeed bring the characters of Ennis and Jack to life. It truly does make me wonder though if Jake realized or ever realized how important that character of Jack was to so many of us. It seems that even an acknowledgment of Heath's passing would have been better than nothing.

--- End quote ---

Thank you. You put it in words much better, because even though I thought I had explained it pretty clearly in my previous post, there are obviously still people who either don't get what I say or don't read what I say carefully enough. That doesn't matter, I will drop this thing now and never come back to it, because it's a senseless discussion anyway. It shouldn't even be a damn discussion, but that's what people are making out of it, even blaming people for not valuing the lesson of Brokeback Mountain. What crap.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page