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Like I, you want a Brokeback Mountain II, yes a second film??
brokebackjack:
--- Quote from: Clyde-B on June 07, 2007, 07:55:25 am ---In a way yes and in a way no.
The forbidden love genre has one or both of the lovers paying a high price for violating society's norms.
But Annie Proulx has taken that genre and stood it on its head. Jack didn't die for societal reasons. Jack died so that Ennis would find the shirts and come to realize that not only had he loved Jack, but Jack had loved him in return.
People don't leave this movie secure in the knowledge that this is the way things should be. People leave the movie asking "Why did this have to happen?"
Annie has used the forbidden love formula to move us into the romance genre.
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If Jack had not died, we would not be on this thread. If Jack had not died, we would not have been moved by this film/SS. If Jack had not died, we simply would not have given a damned because none, NONE of it would have bitten as deeply into our souls the way these masterpieces have done, as written and as filmed. .
Clyde-B:
--- Quote from: brokebackjack on June 08, 2007, 03:18:23 am ---If Jack had not died, we would not be on this thread. If Jack had not died, we would not have been moved by this film/SS. If Jack had not died, we simply would not have given a damned because none, NONE of it would have bitten as deeply into our souls the way these masterpieces have done, as written and as filmed. .
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Exactly!
The way to get people to really start rethinking their prejudices is to show them the full ugliness of the consequences. And that means tragedy.
It took a real massacre in Selma Alabama for the voting rights act to get passed. Hopefully we won't have to go that far.
I hope this story has opened the door for stories that end they way most of us wish this one could have ended.
It's been very difficult to have gone all my life never having seen a mainstream hero that was someone like me, or read a really well written book about two people like me who fell in love and carved out a happy life for themselves.
I would like to see that before I die.
Artiste:
So, you want a 2nd BM movie??
Hugs!!
Clyde-B:
--- Quote from: Artiste on October 04, 2007, 06:08:49 pm ---So, you want a 2nd BM movie??
Hugs!!
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It wouldn't be a second BM movie exactly.
BBM reads like the backstory for a typical Western hero. The main character has screwed up royally and lost just about everything.
I'd like to see a continuation of Ennis's story, and have him become the first gay hero.
As a gay kid, I grew up on borrowed heroes. Like everybody else, gay kids need heroes of their own.
I'd rather have him become a hero than worry about him being just a finger pull away from becoming another notch in the Wyoming suicide statistics.
Artiste:
Thanks Clyde-B!
You suggestions are great!!
Other BM movies could be so as you suggest, plus many others to continue somehow.
I find the actual one too hard for gay men such as I.
Do you?
Hugs!!
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