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Where did you FIRST hear/read about Brokeback Mountain?

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David In Indy:
Melissa -

A friend of mine mailed me (by snail mail) a copy of the New Yorker several weeks after the story appeared in it. I was living in Evansville at the time. I still have this copy stored somewhere in a box up in the attic. I found out about the movie on the Internet. Like you, I began to read about it on various websites and I went to see it the first week it was released at the theatre. I always brought a group of friends with me. I saw it numerous times at the theatre and I do believe I won a few "converts" along the way!  :D

ednbarby:

--- Quote from: delalluvia on July 24, 2006, 11:29:18 pm ---Then I saw a preview for the movie back in - October? - and just went batshit over it and have been turned on ever since.
--- End quote ---

Heh heh heh.  A girl after my own heart.   :-*

Amber:
I remember seeing snipets on TV about it, probably in the November - December area.  My friends talked about it a bit too, asked me if I was going to see it.  Stupidly I said I was going to wait.  What was I thinking?  I get so angry at myself for letting the opportunity to see the movie on the big screen pass by me.  Hindsight is 20/20  :)

Ellemeno:
In mid-October 2005 I followed the posting history of one of my favorite IMDb users to the IMDb message board of this movie with a weird-sounding name, "Brokeback Mountain."  I saw that it was hugely hopping, posts coming in every few seconds.  Wow!  So I started reading about it, then I downloaded the short story into my Palm, and read it over and over and over and over and over, all the time, at traffic lights, in the bathroom, falling asleep at night.  The rest you were there for.  :)

serious crayons:
I was a New Yorker subscriber in 1997, but somehow missed the story. But in maybe 2002 or 2003 I was in a book club and one of the members, a close friend, made it that month's assignment. I read it in a weird little pocket-sized book that contained only that one story and nothing else.

I loved it, mostly in a detached, literary way. I thought the concept was ingenious, the plot sad, the prose beautiful. I probably read it twice. I said good things about it in the book-club discussion (as did everyone). And then I pretty much forgot about it.

A year or so later, I read something online about how they were making the movie, and that Jake and Heath had been cast. I thought, well, Jake Gyllenhaal will be good, but ... Heath Ledger? They must be pretty desperate. I guess they're not too serious about making a good movie.
 
Then I saw Heath in the Lords of Dogtown and realized he was actually a good actor. Then the movie came out, and I read all those stunning reviews ...

I knew I would like to see it, but still, I put it off. I figured, I'd already read the story, so what could there be left to learn? I assumed the movie would be well made, but it sounded like it might be a little ... I don't know, preachy or pedantic or something. I was busy with the holidays and kids and moving and whatnot, so with one thing or another, I didn't get around to seeing it until January.

I've been here (or at imdb) ever since.

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