Beans onscreen in 'Brokeback'
Not, perhaps, since Blazing Saddles have beans around a campfire figured so prominently in a Western.
Director Ang Lee's heartbreaking Brokeback Mountain, which took four Golden Globes on Monday, could hardly be more different from the raucous 1974 Mel Brooks comedy. But beans are a distinct presence in the film's early scenes at the star-crossed cowboys' camp.
In one shot, the camera lingers on a can of them, balanced on a log, with an old-fashioned label reading "Better Most."
Don't look for the Better Most brand in stores, though. Brokeback production designer Judy Becker says it was a fictional brand.
Why such emphasis on the beans in the movie?
"Ang tends to include a lot of food references in his movies," Becker said, adding: "Food really illustrates the day-to-day lives of people."
-- Star Telegram