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injest:
The thing that bugs me is him leading that horse with the reins over its neck...you take them over the head when you are leading...they don't go over the neck til you are ready to get on...

so I am not sure....do you like it or does it offend you?

dot-matrix:
Thanks for posting this Andrew.  You're right there's so much out there, the world is just so big that we never see it all. Gotta love YouTube.  I really liked it.   I have to say that is one of the nicest, most tasteful  and sexiest HIV awareness spots I've ever seen. Shame we can't all live some place like that.  I'd love it.   Phooey on those hypocrites at Phillip Morris they don't own the image of the cowboy any more than John Wayne did.

Andrew:
I like it, Jess!  With that setup, we are made to expect something very different -- and it turns out to be about people taking care of themselves, not about "coffin-nails".

injest:
I like that it was made in 2001..so it wasn't really a spoof of BBM...just has the same theme...

Andrew:
No, I meant this 2001 spot was (partly) a spoof of Philip Morris.  And a year ago when there was all the talk about BBM and not many people had seen it yet, there were people who were assuming anything that came out about cowboys who were gay, would be a spoof or an attack on tradition.  And of course there was absolutely nothing about the film that was a spoof.  And if it 'attacked' anything, it was only reductionism about the significance of the cowboy.  And it only attacked in the indirect way great art attacks anything reductive, by showing us something richer and truer to life and more interesting.

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