Author Topic: Brokeback Mountain in Popular Culture  (Read 2350 times)

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Brokeback Mountain in Popular Culture
« on: April 09, 2008, 01:36:28 am »
http://www.cafepress.com/dressageart/1922086

scroll down to the bottom of the page the last tshirt on the right...

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Re: Brokeback Mountain in Popular Culture
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2008, 08:57:14 pm »
Brokeback is here to stay as a popular culture expression.

The "don't go all Brokeback on me"
or "Broke straight" etc.

Not necessarily in a good way, but not overall bad either.

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Re: Brokeback Mountain in Popular Culture
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2008, 04:30:49 pm »
Norway's biggest Newspaper, VG, runs a political cartoon by its well-known in-house cartoonists every day on page 2 under the editorial.

Today the half-page cartoon is lifted directly from Brokeback, it's the dozy embrace with the Norwegian Prime Minister as Ennis and one of the opposition leaders as Jack. The scene is complete with the horse, the fire, our guys' clothes and everything - to be absolutely sure that everyone gets the point the cartoon is even titled "Brokeback Mountain".

The point of the piece is not that the men are gay, but that they'd rather form an alliance in order to keep a third opposition party at bay (which has a woman leader). And moreover it's been in the news lately that these two've visited with each other in their respective families' mountain cottages, a common enough occurence in ski-crazed Norway, but they *are* on opposite sides of the political landscape...

I thought this shows how much the film and some of its scenes and images have entered popular culture, that people here are expected to get the references.

I've tried to find the drawing online, but it's apparently only available in the paper edition.

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Re: Brokeback Mountain in Popular Culture
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2008, 12:40:09 am »
Yep, "Brokeback" is here to stay!