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"The Sports Guy" from ESPN - The Magazine on Brokeback Mountain

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Aloysius J. Gleek:
Yes, thank you so much for this--but for the semi (or totally) out of it, could you explain what seems to be intended as a positive observation:

"Now, that was a superb movie.  Even gets a little dusty near the end."

Dusty?  Clue in the clueless, I beg!


 ???
John

TheStudDuck:

--- Quote from: jmmgallagher on April 10, 2006, 04:46:54 pm ---Dusty?  Clue in the clueless, I beg!

--- End quote ---

I can't say with any amount of certainty that I know this to be correct, but I can offer what my take was on it.  When I read it, I thought that he meant it stepped out of the genre of "love story" and became an actual "western" that guys can enjoy towards the end.  That's what it sounded like he was saying to me.

You know... it stopped being about two guys in love... and then it was about this ranch-hand who lives alone with his thoughts and doesn't say much and just keeps to himself.  Which is basically every western ever made.  Once Jack dies, the masculinity level increases amazingly, believe it or not.  I mean, there's no longer this man in love with a man cuddling... it just goes back to the roots of the classic westerns with a cowboy is heartbroken -- he's not outspoken about the reason, he's just heartbroken and you know it to be true.  And that's basically what I was thinking he was getting at.

Towards the end, it stops being a love story... and it really does become a western... or a guy movie.

RouxB:
I interpreted "dusty" to mean emotional-teary.

silkncense:
Another surprisingly positive review was from Howard Stern who stated everyone should see Brokeback Mtn & that it was one of the best films he'd ever seen!  You gotta love it.

monimm18:
Wow, never knew who Bill Simons was until now, but hats off to him. To write that in ESPN,  a sports magazine... just think of the demographics for this publication. He must have really liked this film.
I am curious about the reaction to this... Keeping my fingers crossed that he's right - maybe we have evolved.

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