Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond > The Lighter Side
The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)
Fran:
"Kids" breaks new ground for lesbians on film
By Christine Kearney
NEW YORK | Fri Dec 3, 2010 3:14pm EST
(Reuters) - It isn't stirring the same buzz as that 'gay cowboy film', but Oscar contender "The Kids Are All Right" may give portrayals of lesbians in Hollywood a positive boost the way "Brokeback Mountain" shattered previous depictions of gay men.
memento:
In Brokeback Mountain, there are also significant deviations from a traditional Western plot. Although there have been attempts to make Westerns with gay heroes, such as Andy Warhol’s underground film Lonesome Cowboys (1967), Brokeback Mountain is the first such film with mainstream success. Immediately following its release, B. Ruby Rich praised the film as a gay breakthrough saying: “With utter audacity, Ang Lee… has taken on the most sacred of American genres, the Western, and queered it” (Clarke and Gilbey). So, it may be a big deal that this Western has gay heroes. Brokeback takes a genre that has always been “a tad gay,” with its emphasis on homosocial bonding between men, and brings it out of the closet (Clarke and Gilbey). Indeed, this fact incites Clarke and Gibley to label an overtly gay cowboy film as “the last Hollywood taboo.” However, the real triumph of the film is in its depoliticizing of the cowboy’s love—as Jack says, “It’s nobody’s business but ours.” Brokeback Mountain is not an ‘issue movie.’ It seems as if this depoliticizing is Lee’s motivation for insisting that the film has little to do with Westerns, that it is in fact a love story.
“Of What Use was the Rule?:” Genre Conventions and Subversion in Brokeback Mountain and No Country for Old Men
by Tony Meyer]
southendmd:
Despite their liaison in the tent, Ennis asserted to Jack that he was nonqueer.
Meryl:
Terrified that Alma would call him out as queer, Ennis bolted from Monroe's house, drove to a bar and got into a fight with a truck driver the size of an ox.
memento:
Ennis was terrified of being thought of as queer, because of the prevailing attitudes of the time.
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