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starboardlight:
it's funny to me that you have people saying it's a politically correct film, and then you have people who criticize it for being stereotypical. How does a film manage to be both politically correct and politically incorrect at the same time? For me it's a story about Ennis and Jack. What ever else people want to saddle onto it is their baggage, not the films'.

mg501:
No, I don't think BBM was "politically correct". Just as someone else wrote, it wasn't political at all. I love Jack and Ennis and I have never felt so attached and protective of anyone as I do these two, but they were also flawed characters. If the writer's were tryng to be PC, they would have made the guys "squeaky clean" so to speak.

oilgun:

--- Quote from: mg501 on April 13, 2006, 07:13:37 pm --- If the writer's were tryng to be PC, they would have made the guys "squeaky clean" so to speak.

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I agree.  In fact when I first saw the film I anticipated negative reactions from gay activists,  even though I consider myself to be one.  The fact that the characters deny being queer, that they are flawed individuals and one of them dies at the end, I thought for sure that because of that the film would be dismissed by many activists as perpetuating the stereotype of the sad & lonely gay life.  
A few have of course, Brad Fraser and Don Roos come to mind, but generally the film has been embraced by the gay community.

I think it's a testament to the fact that art eclipses politics.

It's still a political film though in the same way that being openly gay is political but it isn't 'PC'.

bbm_stitchbuffyfan:

--- Quote ---It, I believe, is an accurate representation of era it represents. 1963-1983 Wyoming-what does the OP think the politics were in that place and time??
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I agree with that. I was not the one who labeled this movie as 'politically correct' as if that's a bad thing. I think one can find underlying messages in the story but I view the movie as a more intimate experience focused on characters.

Ignorance ensues as I post this next sentence but I wasn't really aware of the 'stereotype of the sad & lonely gay life' when I first saw this movie. If all of these gay films were told as blissfully happy tales then there wouldn't be as much sympathy evoked from the audience members; what I think is important is telling the story (and characters) as close to realistically as possible and I think Brokeback Mountain did that very well.

delalluvia:

--- Quote from: mg501 on April 13, 2006, 07:13:37 pm ---No, I don't think BBM was "politically correct". Just as someone else wrote, it wasn't political at all. I love Jack and Ennis and I have never felt so attached and protective of anyone as I do these two, but they were also flawed characters. If the writer's were tryng to be PC, they would have made the guys "squeaky clean" so to speak.

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Agree completely.  If you want a 'pc correct' gay couple check out the couple in the 'Family Stone'.

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