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"Brokeback Fever Pitch," "I 'Cowbot", and other sequels....
TOoP/Bruce:
by - bjblakeslee 7 hours ago (Fri Apr 28 2006 04:17:02 )
"The Night of the Beavus" ("The Night of the Lepus"}
Plot Synopsis:
Joe Aguirre's Wyoming ranch is infested with beavers, and he hires Ennis and Jack to act as beaver wranglers and round them up.
He hires a shady city vet named Dr. Balco (Jamie Lee Curtis) to control their reproduction by injecting them with steroids to interrupt their breeding cycle. One of the beavers (whose name is BarriBonzo) bites Ennis. Jack carefully bandages Ennis's hand and Jack tells him "I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." Jack and Ennis spend the night in a local motel.
The beaver escapes, resulting in a race of man-eating, sheep-killing, psycho-beavers, who have absolutely phemonenal home run stats. When confronted about the environmental damage he has caused, Joe Aguirre says "I don't give a dam" and is suddenly swallowed alive by a giant mutant beaver.
The National Guard is comes to the rescue and nukes the terrorizing beavers.
TOoP/Bruce:
by - bjblakeslee 7 hours ago (Fri Apr 28 2006 04:18:46 )
"The Picture Book of Zanian Grey"
Plot Synopsis:
Zanian Grey, a famous cowboy photographer and Native American arts collector, meets Jack Twist. Zanian says he is impressed with Jack's great beauty.
Zanian asks Jack if he would mind if he took some pictures of him while he works. Later, he gives Jack an autographed picture book. The book is entitled, "Sheep Jack - a picture book by Zanian Grey" and on the cover is Jack, shirtless, wearing a black Stetson Resistol, and holding a baby lamb.
Jack swears that he never realized he was quite so good looking. He looks through the book, absent-mindedly holding a mysterious Arapaho charm as he remarks "Friend, I swear by all the gods in heaven I would give my soul to stay like this forever."
As years go by, Jack slips further and further into a life of debauchery. Jack becomes aware that only his picture on the cover of the book ages, but he loves himself with a love that will never grow old.
TOoP/Bruce:
by - bjblakeslee 7 hours ago (Fri Apr 28 2006 04:20:37 )
"Blade Wrangler"("Do 'Cowbots Dream of Electric Sheep?")
Plot Synopsis:
Ennis Delmar, a retired cop in San Antonio circa 2019. San Antonio has become a multi-cultural miasma of rain, smog, advertising, and replicants, androids with safety feature built in by the Guirrell Corporation for use in dangerous out-world colonization. The safety feature is a short life span. Replicants are also provided with an individualized base of memories to keep them from going insane.
Delmar formerly held a job in the police unit as a Blade Wrangler, a euphemism for members of the elite detective unit that hunts down and "retires" rogue "skin jobs" - replicants. Delmar is called in by his former boss and forced back into active duty against his will to hunt down the 4 rogue replicants. These replicants led by Bodie have escaped and are arrived on Earth. In their escape, they have murdered several humans.
Delmar finds and eliminates Luraan (Anne Hathaway), a common pleasure unit who is one of his targets. Attacked by another replicant, Leto (Josh Hartnett), Delmar is about to be killed when he's saved by Jack, Guirrell's assistant and a replicant who's unaware of his true nature. Delmar takes Jack back to his apartment, where they have a rough sexual encounter. Delmar falls asleep. Jack softly plays the harmonica as Ennis sleeps. Ennis dreams of sheep running in the mountains. He awakes to find Jack watching over him. Delmar knows that Jack is an unregistered replicant and confronts Jack with the fact that his childhood memories are not his own, but rather Guirrell's nephew's. Jack becomes upset and leaves.
In the meantime, Bodie and his replicant pleasure unit lover, Priq use a dying inventor, J.S. Bach to get close to Guirrell and murder him.
Delmar tracks the pair to Bach's, where a bloody and violent final confrontation between Delmar and Bodie takes place on a skyscraper rooftop in the rain high above San Antonio. Bodie saves Delmar's life before Bodie dies - his life span expired - saying "Time, never enough time..."
Afterward, Delmar is informed by another cop with a flair for origami that one more skin job has gone missing and needs to be retired - Jack.
Returning to his apartment, Delmar (with gun drawn) finds Jack sleeping. Delmar tells Jack, "Wake up. It's time to hit the trail, Cowboy. We don't want to get caught sleepin like horses." They quickly gather their coats and prepare to leave together. Outside his apartment, Delmar finds an origami figure of a sheep. Delmar picks it up, and nods.
Delmar understands now that his fellow cops know the content of his dreams. That means that Delmar was also created by the Guirrell Corporation, and that the cop on the force is giving him the professional courtesy of a headstart before hunting him down - or is he letting him go because both he and Jack are near their expiration date?
Anxiously, Ennis gently embraces Jack in the elevator and whispers something inaudible into Jack's ear. Jack meets Ennis's gaze, and the elevator doors quickly close.
TOoP/Bruce:
by - bjblakeslee 7 hours ago (Fri Apr 28 2006 04:23:06 )
"Harold and Claude" (Harold and Maude)
Plot Synopsis:
Living in Riverton, Harold is a 21 year who dresses in goth clothing, wears eye liner, a blue mohawk haircut, and is completely covered in morbid tattoos. He is utterly obsessed with death, and enjoys going to funerals for entertainment. In front of his mother, he fakes several suicides. Harold's mother is becoming somewhat blasé about the whole thing. She tells him, "when your done hanging around, I'd like you to get ready for dinner."
At a particularly large, enjoyable funeral, Harold meets Claude, an 89 year old man who has a passion for many of the same things Harold does. They are both big Ramones, and Sex Pistols fans. They continue to go to funerals together, swapping Twizzler candies, and begin see each other often. Harold learns many things from Claude about living and the rich, exciting possibilities that life can offer.
Harold's mom tries to set him up with a girlfriend (one of whom is Jenny Delmar), but Harold freaks every candidate out by staging elaborate fake suicides in front of each them. When that plan doesn't work, she encourages him to joining the military, but Harold is totally upfront about being gay, and the military doesn't want him. On a canoe outing on the river, Harold tells Claude that he is in love with him and he wants to move someplace where they can marry. Harold offers Claude a ring. Claude kisses the ring, throws it into the water, and tells Harold that way he can never lose it, "That way, I'll always know where it is." Harold spends the night at Claude's house, and they sleep together. In bed, we see that Claude's arms and body are also covered in similar tattoos.
Harold surprises Claude with a birthday party on the evening before he is to turn 90. Smiling and seeming to beam with pride, Claude thanks him and tells him that a birthday party is perfect way to say goodbye, because he will not be turning 90 - and he has already taken enough pills to kill a rhinosceros.
TOoP/Bruce:
by - bjblakeslee 7 hours ago (Fri Apr 28 2006 04:24:45 )
"Ranchero Man" (Rashomon)
Plot Synopsis:
"Ranchero Man" opens with a construction worker, a pentecostal minister, and a young housewife hiding out from torrential rain under a roadside picnic shelter outside of Signal, Wyoming. They wait for the weather to clear and talk about a local murder.
We gradually learn that a man named Joe Auguirre met two young ranch workers. Aguirre lusted after the ranch hand named Ennis and apparently raped him. Or was it simply a consensual act?
Ennis vanished and was later found hiding in a local church as he was heaving his guts out. Jack was found dead, and police arrested Joe Aguirre with items belonging to Ennis and Jack in his possession. So, just how did Jack die? Was it a tire-iron murder? Did Jack commit suicide? Was it an accidental tire rim explosion? Or did Jack die in self-defense as he struggled to protect Ennis from the attack by Joe Aguirre?
In courtroom flashbacks, Joe Auirre gives his version of events, then Ennis gives his laconic testimony, and an FBI crime profiler testifying regarding Jack's state of mind speaks. All the stories differ greatly from one another, and the truth is nearly impossible to sort out. Finally, at the wayside, the construction worker accuses them all of lying and tells one more version of the story. But the construction worker is a liar as well, for he too has taken something that may have belonged to Jack.
Then just as the pentecostal minister despairs at how all mankind has earned eternal damnation, and how they will never know the truth, they are startled to hear crying in the woods and find a motherless bear cub.
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