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Where are you in your process?
Rayn:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 05, 2006, 10:27:51 pm ---I'm not sure I'm ever going to be able to accept Heath and Jake in other roles. They're lucky the future of their careers doesn't depend on me!
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Yeah, I feel the same way, Jeff. I hardly knew them before BBM. Now I've seen Jarhead and Moonlight Mile with Jake in them. I didn't like either of them. I've seen Keith in Casanova and A Knight's Tales and they were "ok", but none of those movies matched up to Ennis and Jack in BBM.
I've stopped watching the movie for now. Six times was enough for me to know what happens and how I will feel every time I watch it. I'm reading Annie's Collection of short stories, "Open Range". She is a very interesting writer, I mean, the language she captures and invents. Her characters and plots are so convincing; you just know they are based on real life. I'm enjoying her very much.
I do come here to talk about stuff still though, so I'll be seeing you around here...
Rayn
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Rayn on May 08, 2006, 02:29:27 am ---
Yeah, I feel the same way, Jeff. I hardly knew them before BBM. Now I've seen Jarhead and Moonlight Mile with Jake in them. I didn't like either of them. I've seen Keith in Casanova and A Knight's Tales and they were "ok", but none of those movies matched up to Ennis and Jack in BBM.
I've stopped watching the movie for now. Six times was enough for me to know what happens and how I will feel every time I watch it. I'm reading Annie's Collection of short stories, "Open Range". She is a very interesting writer, I mean, the language she captures and invents. Her characters and plots are so convincing; you just know they are based on real life. I'm enjoying her very much.
I do come here to talk about stuff still though, so I'll be seeing you around here...
Rayn
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I hadn't seen Jake in anything before Brokeback. The film of his that I really want to see some day is October Sky. That came and went through the Philadelphia theaters pretty quickly, but I remember seeing the TV commercials for it and thinking it looked like a nice, sweet story. I'm thinking also, possibly, of The Good Girl, but that one isn't high on my list because I've never gotten the appeal of Jennifer Anniston. I've never found her particularly pretty, and her character on Friends always annoyed me.
As for Heath, I'd seen The Patriot and A Knight's Tale. I didn't like either of those films, but not because of Heath. With regard to The Patriot, my M.A. is in Early American History, and there were plot turns in that movie that I found way too implausible. I could say pretty much the same for A Knight's Tale. I do medieval and Renaissance historical re-enacting and re-creating, and the rock-and-role dance sequence in A Knight's Tale made my flesh crawl. In any case, in both movies Heath struck me as another very pretty Aussie boy and not much else--which is one (of many) reasons that made Brokeback so stunning to me. I freely admit I seriously misjudged him. Mea culpa! Casanova also came and went pretty quickly from local theaters, but in any case I wasn't prepared to accept him in another role while Brokeback was still playing a few blocks away.
ednbarby:
Oh, Jeff, you *must* see October Sky AND The Good Girl. These are two of my favorites of Jake's roles. October Sky was the first thing I ever saw him in. Loved the movie so much in general that I dragged my husband back to see it since he'd missed it the first time. Chris Cooper plays his Dad, and he's *so* damned good. This movie is noteworthy in my Jake fandom history because when it was over, I looked for his name in the credits, and I'm sure I mispronounced it in my mind. And I remember thinking "That boy's going places." Yes, it is a sweet story and very inspiring, mostly because it's true.
And The Good Girl is one of my favorite movies, period. I didn't think much of Jennifer Aniston one way or the other before seeing it, but she really rose to the occasion. It's by far the deepest of all her protrayals (which I know may not be saying much). And Zooey Deschanel is a *riot* as a co-worker who isn't afraid to show regularly how much she hates her job. Just a very interesting, engaging, makes-you-think slice of life story. Excellent stuff.
silkncense:
The sleepless nights are now long gone but I still wake sometimes as Ennis did, from dreams of Jack (or Ennis).
I am apparently on a different plane than others as I now am 'comforted' by seeing the film and knowing what a powerful love was shared. I do still react sadly to the chipping away of that love and the tragedy of the loss, but I believe some people are so impacted because they never had THAT intense kind of love. And fear they never will.
I can also view films with Heath Ledger since I never saw Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain. I only saw Ennis. (Maybe a couple of times Jake Gyllenhaal crept into the film, but I can overlook that).
TJ:
I never even knew whom Heath Ledger was until I saw the promos for Brokeback Mountain. And that is the last movie that I have seen in a theater.
I never realized that I had seen Jake Gyllenhaal in other movies (all on TV) until after I saw BbM.
As far as accepting them being in other acting roles, I have no problem with that. But, if they were to be in a Western themed movie or another movie in the same genre as BbM, that might be different.
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