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Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond => Brokeback Mountain Open Forum => All Things Brokeback: Books, Interviews and More => Topic started by: Phillip Dampier on March 25, 2006, 08:14:28 pm
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Beans onscreen in 'Brokeback'
Not, perhaps, since Blazing Saddles have beans around a campfire figured so prominently in a Western.
Director Ang Lee's heartbreaking Brokeback Mountain, which took four Golden Globes on Monday, could hardly be more different from the raucous 1974 Mel Brooks comedy. But beans are a distinct presence in the film's early scenes at the star-crossed cowboys' camp.
In one shot, the camera lingers on a can of them, balanced on a log, with an old-fashioned label reading "Better Most."
Don't look for the Better Most brand in stores, though. Brokeback production designer Judy Becker says it was a fictional brand.
Why such emphasis on the beans in the movie?
"Ang tends to include a lot of food references in his movies," Becker said, adding: "Food really illustrates the day-to-day lives of people."
-- Star Telegram
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I looked up beans in the International Dictionary of Symbols and it said that, in the Far East, beans are a symbol of male virility. Jack and the beanstalk, indeed!
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I looked up beans in the International Dictionary of Symbols and it said that, in the Far East, beans are a symbol of male virility. Jack and the beanstalk, indeed!
Good one, Frontie! :)
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Bumpin for da beanz!!
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Our leader and founder quotes the Minneapolis Star Telegram on the subject of beans! I never saw that quote at the end from Judy Becker before!
Beans onscreen in 'Brokeback'
Not, perhaps, since Blazing Saddles have beans around a campfire figured so prominently in a Western.
Director Ang Lee's heartbreaking Brokeback Mountain, which took four Golden Globes on Monday, could hardly be more different from the raucous 1974 Mel Brooks comedy. But beans are a distinct presence in the film's early scenes at the star-crossed cowboys' camp.
In one shot, the camera lingers on a can of them, balanced on a log, with an old-fashioned label reading "Better Most."
Don't look for the Better Most brand in stores, though. Brokeback production designer Judy Becker says it was a fictional brand.
Why such emphasis on the beans in the movie?
"Ang tends to include a lot of food references in his movies," Becker said, adding: "Food really illustrates the day-to-day lives of people."
-- Star Telegram
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I never saw that before!