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Where did you FIRST hear/read about Brokeback Mountain?
mvansand76:
And when...
A. Somewhere in between 1997-2006
B. Which month
C. Day? ;D
ednbarby:
I think I must have first read about the movie in Entertainment Weekly magazine, probably in their Fall or Winter Preview issue for 2005. Those are always the ones I look forward to the most, because that's the time of year when all the highest-quality films come out over here to be in contention for Academy Awards. I hadn't read much about it - just the synopsis they provided in their blurb about it. It interested me at that time mostly because it was an Ang Lee film, and I so loved The Wedding Banquet and Sense and Sensibility that I knew he'd do a wonderful job with the subject matter. I guess I usually look at the filmmaker first and then the actors. If I'm interested in all (or most) of their work and the story sounds interesting, I'm in. I knew of all the actors' work in this one and respected all of it, but I wasn't overly enamored with any of them at the time. I think now that that was a very good thing - it made me much more free to enjoy the characterizations. I went into it with little to no expectations except that it definitely wouldn't suck because it was Ang Lee. That was good, too, because the story just immediately grabbed me and pulled me in. And it hasn't let me go yet.
Front-Ranger:
Actually, I first heard about it BEFORE October 13, 1997, because I have a subscription to the New Yorker which arrives a few days before the publication date. I read the story the same night and was floored by it. I kept the magazine in my nightstand drawer several years after that, and I still have the original pages from the story.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on July 24, 2006, 10:31:18 am ---Actually, I first heard about it BEFORE October 13, 1997, because I have a subscription to the New Yorker which arrives a few days before the publication date. I read the story the same night and was floored by it. I kept the magazine in my nightstand drawer several years after that, and I still have the original pages from the story.
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I envy your foresight, FR. I've had a subscription to The New Yorker since sometime back in the 1980s (yikes!), and my issue used to arrive faithfully on the Wednesday before the cover date. I wish I'd saved the 10/13/1997 issue.
As for the film, however, the first I heard anything about it was an ad in the Weekend section of the Philadelphia Inquirer a week before the film opened here.
mvansand76:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on July 24, 2006, 10:31:18 am ---Actually, I first heard about it BEFORE October 13, 1997, because I have a subscription to the New Yorker which arrives a few days before the publication date. I read the story the same night and was floored by it. I kept the magazine in my nightstand drawer several years after that, and I still have the original pages from the story.
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Wow, that must be a record! ;) That's wonderful!
I first heard about it in 2004, that they were filming a movie called Brokeback Mountain and soon forgot about it until in September 2005 I saw a quote in a newspaper from Jake, I think it was about the kissing scenes or something and then I decided to look it up on imdb.com! Hooked from then on.... :P
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