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Kudos to Bravo for doing as they said with rpt. BBM !!!
BayCityJohn:
I'm too pissed off at Bravo to send them an email tonight, but I did fire one off to GLAAD.
--- Quote ---I've never been more disappointed than I was last night.
After reading GLAAD's press releases for the Bravo broadcast of Brokeback Mountain on June 27, I was looking forward to watching it. I knew they would probably edit most of the 4 letter words and the sex scene in the tent, but I was shocked at what they did to the other tent scene.
This pivitol scene is one of the most romantic and beautiful scenes in the history of film, and they chose to delete most of it. There was no sex, no nudity, no swearing in the scene. So I have to ask why?
Why would Bravo show a gay movie but feel the need to censor the "gay stuff'? It's one of the most important scenes in the film, and it's deletion changes the whole dynamic of the film.
Why was it ok to leave in the graphic violence when Ennis gives Jack a black eye, or when Jack get's his face bashed with the tire iron, but not ok to show the two men falling in love?
I realize that GLAAD probably had no prior knowledge of what was going to be edited, but I just thought you should know that there are a lot of fans of the movie who are very upset with what appears to be, if not a return to "the love that dare not speak it's name", then a return to "the love that dare not show it's face".
This is supposed to be "accurate and inclusive" ? It sure as hell doesn't feel that way, and it doesn't feel fair either.
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David In Indy:
--- Quote from: BayCityJohn on June 29, 2008, 01:57:53 am ---I'm too pissed off at Bravo to send them an email tonight, but I did fire one off to GLAAD.
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Oh! That's a good idea. I'll send one to GLAAD too. I didn't do it, but I will now! :)
SFEnnisSF:
Way to go John!
BayCityJohn:
I reported the Bravo broadcast as an incident here:
http://www.glaad.org/action/report.php
be sure to select "television' as the media type.
cmr107:
As I mentioned in my post 8 pages ago, all I watched of it was Jack and Lureen in the car through the reunion. I just read this whole thread, and a question occured to me. Why was it ok to show the entire reunion scene (kiss, nuzzle and all) but not the kiss in TS2? When I found it on TV and knew it was almost at the reunion, I really only kept watching out of curiosity for whether or not they would show the whole scene. They did, and I went to bed feeling pleased with Bravo. I didn't know about the butchering of TS2 till I came here. Why is one (long) kiss ok but another one isn't? I don't get it.
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