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Sason:
For those of you who haven't already seen it, here is Focus Feature's slide show about how they promoted BBM.
It's very interesting. Make sure to watch the videos in it.

Thanks to BayCityJohn who first posted it.

http://prezi.com/bh2erhsxahy1/brokeback-mountain-marketing-campaign/


I can't find a way to make the site show up in the post, hence only the link.

Penthesilea:
I also can't find a way to have at least one pic of it here, since the whole thing is in a flash player.

But it's well worth it, there are pictures along with explanations, and a short interview with James Schamus. Nothing new, but he's so cute explaining well-known stuff (well-known to us at least). The trailer is also part of it and I rewatched it after a long, long time. Neat! :D

serious crayons:
Thanks for posting this, Sonja. Very entertaining!

I'm happy to say that I think some of the text already sounds a little quaint. Just before I turned here, I watched a touching commercial supporting same-sex marriage, narrated by Morgan Freeman -- i.e., God and other voices of supreme authority. In contrast to that, hearing and seeing how they had to keep the work under wraps because of its "controversial subject," or didn't want to market too strongly to the LGBT community for fear of being "labeled a film that advocates gay rights" seems like it's from another era.

Some day concerns like that will seem on the order of having to struggle to get Rhett Butler's final "Frankly my dear I don't give a damn" into Gone With the Wind.

Sheriff Roland:
Watched the whole thing too. Was somewhat surprised by the U.S. focus of initiatives (beyond the international Venice and Toronto film festivals). Our film did garner international recognition and big international $$$ too.


--- Quote from: serious crayons on November 25, 2012, 12:40:32 pm ---Some day concerns like that will seem on the order of having to struggle to get Rhett Butler's final "Frankly my dear I don't give a damn" into Gone With the Wind.
--- End quote ---

That's pretty much what I was saying in those first years of BetterMost (only 5 - 6 years ago) about marriage rights, gays in the military, the death penalty, HIV discrimination. Thank God most of these things didn't take a couple of decades to resolve themselves, as I had anticipated.

On the contrary, we in Canada have elected a conservative government (over and over gain) since then and now are putting even more people in jail for simple pot possession, among the many idealogy based (as opposed to scientific bases) initiatives.

Meryl:
Thanks for posting this, Sonja; I hadn't seen it before.  It was nice to be reminded of all those early-on events and see the longer version of the trailer.  Hard to believe we'll soon be celebrating seven years of Brokeback on film!  8)

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