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Finally...
silkncense:
In December, when I was telling the world what an amazing film I'd just seen & that everyone had to see Brokeback Mountain, one of the people I told was a married male friend & former police officer. Unlike another male officer friend, he did not step back from me while staring & shaking his head 'no' so I thought there was some hope there.
Well, he called me, first thing in the morning as I was just sitting down with a cup of coffee & said, "you'll never guess what I did." Well, almost 7 1/2 months later I was not thinking it was about the film suggestion but it was.
He said, I had to call you! "I watched Brokeback. I was having some trouble in the first hour or so, kinda slow... (uh oh, I thought) but it was one of the best films I have EVER seen!" ;D "I would give it a solid 'A'. Doesn't pass Pulp Fiction, but it's right up there in the top of my all-time list."
He went on to say (he'd also seen Crash, Munich, Capote...) "I CAN'T believe it didn't get the Oscar! It's unbelievable. And Heath - who won the Oscar - Capote? My God, Heath was so powerful in that movie. He deserved the Oscar absolutely". - discussion ensued -
I hate to say it, but I was astonished :o He is a huge film fan but he sounded just like a Brokie!!! He talked about how he thought Jake died (he called them Heath & Jake throughout the conversation) and how much he thought Lureen knew (called her Anne); about Jake's mother & that she knew but he wasn't positive about the father; about how in the last scene w/ his daughter that Heath had finally realized how important love is! And he's only seen it once. Plus, he said he thought I was nuts that I'd seen it more than once (if he ONLY knew) but that he wanted to watch it again cause he may have missed some things!
He also said he wished he's seen it without having seen any of the trailers as he knew something bad was going to happen & kept waiting for that point. He also praised Ang Lee for not "slamming you in the face with anything like they did with Crash." He did admit that he was waiting for some kind of "preaching" scene too & was relieved that it was simply "their story."
I asked if he would recommend it to his straight male friends & he said he certainly would, but not to people that he already knew would be unreceptive (unlike me who just barreled ahead). - More discussion. -
He watched it with his wife & he said that he loved it more than her! He also asked her if she would be more shocked if she saw him kissing a man or another woman. (She said she wasn't sure but didn't think she'd be happy either way.)
I'm not exactly sure why, but I am just so happy right now!
Andrew:
I know how happy that would make me, that a skeptic or naysayer became an enthusiast. And remembered the conversation too and took the initiative to call me and tell me about it. It's got to happen to me at least once. Though there are so many people I don't seem to get to talk to at all about movies. I hold back sometimes with people I 'know' won't like it. And I am only disappointed when people I 'think' will, don't. But we know so little of others' emotional make-ups.
Aussie Chris:
Brilliant Silk. How did you manage to stop yourself sounding smug? Or did you?
Just wait until he sees it the second time, and rather than being comforted by the fact that he knows what's going to happen, everything in the "boring" first hour or so is that much more devastating, especially when the dozy embrace ensues!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: silkncense on August 06, 2006, 02:23:57 pm --- he wanted to watch it again cause he may have missed some things!
--- End quote ---
Oh, how little he knows!!! ;)
That's great, Silk. I can see why you'd be excited. I have prompted exactly one person to see it -- one of my best friends, who went on to see it several more times and likes it but does not share a Brokie-level devotion. A few other friends have seen it and were in the "it's pretty good" (!!?!) camp. I have managed to talk a few people into appreciating it more than they otherwise would.
But nobody else I know has seen it, despite my glowing reviews. Or if they have, they haven't mentioned it to me. No other friends. Not my mother-in-law (my father-in-law is a lost cause). Not even my husband.
Am I that unpersuasive?!
Anyway, it's exciting when someone takes your advice and turns out to agree with you! Good going.
Katie77:
Isn't it great when someone you know, and you have suggested to watch the movie, comes back with a review like your friend has....
Unfortunately, it seems, that in most cases that is NOT what happens and I am at a loss as to WHY???
I was talking to another brokie the other day, about the same thing, and I said, that sometimes, I think that brokies like us, have actually been selected....by whom I dont know, but I have this vision of a theatre full of people, watching the movie, and some higher being, is there tapping some of us on the shoulder, and thus enabling us to take the movie into our soul.
How many of us has had a movie do this to them before?.....how many of us had ever known about message boards, let alone, sought one out, before we saw this movie?.......
Why did it affect us like this, and not others?.....
Did someone pick us out so we would all meet up and become friends, did someone pick us out, because we would understand and maybe do something about the bigotry in our society.....did someone pick us out, because we were in need of something like this, in our life......???????
I believe that I am special, because I was picked out, I believe that everyone else on this board is special too, and I believe, that there is a reason, why it was US.
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