Very good Becky. I'm browsing thru magazine at the Barnes and Noble and I found something about BBM in Metrosource.
I bought the magazine yesterday because a guest editorial (it's the APRIL edition) had a writeup about BBM. The writer, Drew Limsky seemed to think that Heath was getting alot more praise for his performance because Jake was the gayer one. That had crossed my mine as well as I thought they were both excellant in portraying their characters. Of course,
Ewan McGregor being on the cover caught my attn.
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"The praise for Heath Ledger has been so across-the-board, at the expense of Jake Gyllenhaal's equally sensitive performance, that I wonder whether (mostly straight) critics were simply more interested in the character perceived as "straighter."
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http://www.metrosource.com/ You can go to the website and see the full article. This is just the top half.
How does Brokeback compare with The Way We Were?
By Drew Limsky.
Much of my romantic sensibility was formed by heterosexual love stories and moments like Barbra Streisand touching Robert Redford"s hair at the end of The Way We Were.
The emotions in a movie like The Way We Were are easy for anyone with a heart to access, but the sexual bond between straight characters is as murky to me as gay sexual attraction is to straight people.
Which is why the experience of Brokeback Mountain was like seeing my first film. The fact that it is a gay film seemed lost on some. The praise for Heath Ledger has been so across-the-board, at the expense of Jake Gyllenhaal's equally sensitive performance, that I wonder whether (mostly straight) critics were simply more interested in the character perceived as "straighter." There"s a seemingly benign attempt to cut the movie loose from its gay essence. San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle says, "It's possible that if these fellows had never met, one or both would have gone through life straight." Who's the "one" in "one or both"? Probably not the one - Jack - who visits male prostitutes in Mexico and tries to pick up rodeo clowns.