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What is your take on the BBM phenomenon
milomorris:
--- Quote from: Rosestem on January 29, 2014, 12:28:13 am ---Excerpts from libretto for the opera here:
http://brokebackstory.blogspot.com/p/brokeback-mountain-opera-libretto.html
Annie Proulx expands on Alma, eliminates Cassie and Randall, makes clear Jack and Ennis did not embrace face-to-face on Brokeback, and adds a beautiful expansion of "Jack, I swear."
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...and LD appears as a ghost.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: x-man on January 27, 2014, 03:02:18 pm ---Has everyone noticed that we seem to be in a post-short story, post-movie phase of the BBM phenomenon? Minute parsing of the story or screenplay for yet new hidden meanings seems increasingly beside the point as BBM moves on. We now have Shawn Kirchner's Meet Me On the Mountain, Steven Robinson's song Jack I Swear, many YouTube videos of acting classes filming scenes of "BBM Continued," the playlist on BBMRadio, which is shrewdly done, and lots of things I am leaving out--now including the opera.
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Each person fated to become a Brokie comes to Brokeback at their own time, for their own reasons. Each Brokie goes through their own phases at their own time as well, and stay for their own reasons.
I was never really one who needed to review every meaning of every shot/phrase/movement in the short story or movie. I'm a viewer who lets himself go where my emotions pull me. They pulled me to the movie countless times.
After the first BBQ in Texas, I heard a quote from my friend Jimmy that it was no longer about "Brokeback -the movie" it is now "Brokeback - The People", meaning all the movie-goers so affected by the movie, they had to see it multiple times, read/create fan fiction to retell the story, read the short story over and over, watch/make videos with the movie's footage, seek out internet sites and forums. We had reached out to each other, and for me, built strong friendships.
I can't remember the last time I saw Brokeback in full, and to be honest, I wouldn't be upset if I never saw it again. It's not about the movie anymore. It's about the friends I met through it, and their stories that are of utmost imprints to me. The only time going forward that I anticipate seeing the movie again is if it is showed with brokies. Some Brokies didn't get the opportunity to see it on the big screen, or see it with other Brokies, so for them, I go to screenings at the gatherings to help them have the experiences I had when I saw it with Brokies.
x-man:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on January 30, 2014, 09:17:05 am --- The only time going forward that I anticipate seeing the movie again is if it is showed with brokies. Some Brokies didn't get the opportunity to see it on the big screen, or see it with other Brokies, so for them, I go to screenings at the gatherings to help them have the experiences I had when I saw it with Brokies.
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I am one of the people who only have seen BBM on my television screen, alone. My emotional reaction to seeing it for the first time--and for subsequent viewings as well--was so strong I was weeping almost uncontrollably. And I do not cry in movies, in fact besides with BBM I have only cried once in my life. (Oh, I did get teary in Undertow, but those tears were coming from the same place as the ones for BBM. ) What is it like with lots of people around you, and specifically, what is it like seeing it with brokies? The emotion in the theatre must be overwhelming.
CellarDweller:
It's kind of hard to explain, I'm sure each person has their own explanation of what they're feeling.
I felt a sense of belonging, a sense of like-mindedness, that we all were having this experience.
Peter John Shields:
It is a very powerful movie that resonates with me today and I only saw it the once in the cinema way back when. For me it is about eternal love. When Jack died it felt like half of Ennis died too and he was literally torn in two. Ennis was emotionally crippled for much of his life but despite being broken apart by the loss he was full of love for his soul mate. And despite Jack's physical death they were as one.
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