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Karan13:
Would you feel the same about the movie ? , would you change it , if so how ?,

I have often wondered if the setting of the movie changes anything, here in a big city in the uk it would as same sex relationships are not uncommon , but as everywhere certain groups still challenge what they see is different , and they don`t understand. Would it of been easier for Ennis and Jack or the same , i have heard that a lot of small towns are still very `Old Fashioned` and stuck in their ways and ideals , is this true for you, ? let me know i`d love to hear your thougts , and soz if this has been covered already. xxx kaz

SFEnnisSF:
Unfortuately a lot of what we see in the film in Rural Wyoming 1963 still exists today in 2006.  That is why this movie is so important and relevant now more than ever!

2robots4u:
Small town America hasn't changed much in the last 50 years, and when it does, it is a very slow process.  If you were to go to a small town in rural Wyoming today, you would think you had just wandered onto the set of BBM.  Attitudes towards homosexuality are also pretty much the same; witness the Matthew Sheppard incident of several years ago.  In case you don't know, Matthew was a young college student who was attached, beaten to death (so the attackers thought) and tied in crusifix style to a fence on a lonely country road.  He died before anyone found him, and he was attacked because he was gay.  As modern inventions, such as the Internet, i-Pods, etc., begin to appear in these small towns, changes will occur...slowly...but they will occur.

Shakesthecoffecan:
I would like to think things in the rural west are slightly better than they were in 1963, but have only visited there and can't speak for them. In my own life and home I am amazed at the advances I have seen. I remain hopeful for our future.

Kd5000:
Is is Casper or Cheyenne that has a gay mayor?  Don't think that would have been possible in the 1960's or 1970's.  Homosexuality is far more talked about and gets much more airplay then back then.. There's the internet as well.  Gay characters on tv and in the movies who aren't as sterotyped as in the 1960's.

I'd like to think  Jack and Ennis would have an easier time living together in rural America then the 1960's. 

I would actually say the worse situation for gays might be in some of Amerca's hard core inner cities, where life can be brutal and homophobia pervades much of the culture. 

Yes, Matthew Shepherd made news. It was a hate crime. In the 1960's, some kid gets beat to death in Laramie, WY and nobody is saying why. THe rest of the country isn't clued in at all. It's a non-event and the family want's to maintain privacy and word not to get out about their son's sexuality.  Maybe the perpetrators could have pleaded "homosexual panic" if it went to trial.

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