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Re: TOTW 11/07: How will moviegoers view BBM 30 years from now?
« Reply #20 on: October 15, 2007, 03:10:03 pm »
We could look to a couple of other examples, one being Boys in the Band, which was released in 1970. Kerry has posted much about this film. It was ground breaking in a number of ways as its intent, as I see it, was to portray homosexuals in a positive light.

That's interesting. I've never actually seen the film, but I read the play in college--though that was a long time ago. However, I've seen this film--and play--denounced for portraying gay men as bitchy queens with horrible lives who end up alone.

Maybe it all depends on your perspective.  :-\
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Re: TOTW 11/07: How will moviegoers view BBM 30 years from now?
« Reply #21 on: October 15, 2007, 03:13:07 pm »
You're kidding. ... Right?  ???

No not at all.  I didn't see and don't see it as a socially relevent film.  It is a wonderfull piece of art, and as close to a  perfectly crafted as a film can be, but if they meant for this film to act as a catalyst for change, it had to have been directed toward gay people and not toward those we wish to change.

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Re: TOTW 11/07: How will moviegoers view BBM 30 years from now?
« Reply #22 on: October 15, 2007, 03:20:14 pm »
I think Torch Song Trilogy really shows the homophobia gay people face.
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Re: TOTW 11/07: How will moviegoers view BBM 30 years from now?
« Reply #23 on: October 15, 2007, 03:23:50 pm »
I think Torch Song Trilogy really shows the homophobia gay people face.

Catalyst Films?  (regardless of inherent worth)

Making Love
Angels in America
Lontime Companion
Philadelphia
The Laramie Project

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Re: TOTW 11/07: How will moviegoers view BBM 30 years from now?
« Reply #24 on: October 15, 2007, 03:24:16 pm »
No not at all.  I didn't see and don't see it as a socially relevent film.  It is a wonderfull piece of art, and as close to a  perfectly crafted as a film can be, but if they meant for this film to act as a catalyst for change, it had to have been directed toward gay people and not toward those we wish to change.

Wow. You got a point their Scott.

I guess if we are gone change the world, we gotta start with ourselves, huh?
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Re: TOTW 11/07: How will moviegoers view BBM 30 years from now?
« Reply #25 on: October 15, 2007, 03:25:27 pm »
Wow. You got a point their Scott.

I guess if we are gone change the world, we gotta start with ourselves, huh?

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Re: TOTW 11/07: How will moviegoers view BBM 30 years from now?
« Reply #26 on: October 15, 2007, 03:27:55 pm »
I think Torch Song Trilogy really shows the homophobia gay people face.

I agree, and I recall Proulx saying her story was about the effects of rural homophobia, which is how it effected me. So many of these stories have involved queerfolks in the big city. I think that is one way Brokeback will be remembered: it showed rural homophobia, the story being published a year before the death of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming.
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Re: TOTW 11/07: How will moviegoers view BBM 30 years from now?
« Reply #27 on: October 15, 2007, 03:28:59 pm »
Give the man a cupie doll and a kiss on the cheek   ;D

Oh the things I could come up with and get totally OT.  :-*
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Re: TOTW 11/07: How will moviegoers view BBM 30 years from now?
« Reply #28 on: October 15, 2007, 03:29:43 pm »
I agree, and I recall Proulx saying her story was about the effects of rural homophobia, which is how it effected me. So many of these stories have involved queerfolks in the big city. I think that is one way Brokeback will be remembered: it showed rural homophobia, the story being published a year before the death of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming.
Wow! I had no idea it was a year before that.
Boy, if that didn't drive the point home I don't know what would.
That poor sweet boy!  :'(
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Re: TOTW 11/07: How will moviegoers view BBM 30 years from now?
« Reply #29 on: October 15, 2007, 03:32:53 pm »
Wow! I had no idea it was a year before that.
Boy, if that didn't drive the point home I don't know what would.
That poor sweet boy!  :'(

Proulx herself was called to be on the jury for the trial of his murderers. She didn't have to serve.
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