'Brokeback Mountain' sets off gay trend in Hollywood

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‘Brokeback Mountain’ sets off gay trend in Hollywood

                                       The awards success of a posse of Oscar hopefuls led by frontrunner "Brokeback Mountain" has made gay okay in Hollywood, where once-skittish filmmakers are embracing same-sex love.

In what has been billed Oscar’s “year of the queer,” the romancing cowboys of “Brokeback” are joined by “Capote,” the story of gay US author Truman Capote, and “Transamerica,” the moving tale of a transsexual in the process of becoming a woman, starring Felicity Huffman.

And as this year’s pink contenders for Sunday’s Academy Awards have been warmly embraced by both awards show juries and audiences, at least two more gay-related films are already in the works. “Infamous,” also about Capote, stars Gwyneth Paltrow and James Bond star Daniel Craig and is due for release this year, while a top producer last month bought the rights to Peter Lefcourt’s novel “The Dreyfus Affair,” about a major league baseball player who falls in love with his second baseman.

“Before ‘Brokeback,’ Hollywood wouldn’t touch gay love stories, no-one wanted to spend the money or weather the criticism,” said author Patricia Nell Warren who published “The Front Runner,” a novel about two gay track athletes, in 1974, and followed it with a story about gay cowboys two years later.

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[cathgal]

What a deep hole this country has dug for themselves. Pathetic! :nope:

 

[Gerry_Hunter]

Not withstanding the fact that this is a revolting development, the way this movie is failing to make money, compared to others, suggests that greed may yet intervene to moderate the trend, even if good taste and moral decency does not.

Blessings,

Gerry

 

[Liberalsaved]

You mean they can make the kinds of movies they want and don’t have to listen to you? HORRIBLE!
You better make sure no one forces you to see them, I hear that’s a real problem these days.

 

[Edwin1961]

Liberalsaved:

You mean they can make the kinds of movies they want and don’t have to listen to you? HORRIBLE!
You better make sure no one forces you to see them, I hear that’s a real problem these days.

It’s almost as if whatever we do to NOT see their movies, Hollywood STILL put out trash and don’t really care. Hollywood has the $$$ and they are not concerned whether they make money anymore. It’s all agenda and Hollywood will do WHAT EVER it takes to ruin the morals of this coutnry…and the world.

It’s time for David to slue Goliath again!

IMO, I think Mel Gibson should have taken the profits from The Passion and started a NEW Filming location in the Heartland of America.

 

[Liberalsaved]

Edwin1961:

It’s almost as if whatever we do to NOT see their movies, Hollywood STILL put out trash and don’t really care. Hollywood has the $$$ and they are not concerned whether they make money anymore. It’s all agenda and Hollywood will do WHAT EVER it takes to ruin the morals of this coutnry…and the world.

It’s time for David to slue Goliath again!

IMO, I think Mel Gibson should have taken the profits from The Passion and started a NEW Filming location in the Heartland of America.

Content does not determine trash. Quality or lack thereof determines trash.

 

[Celtic_FC]

Hey I like the Mel Gibson idea. I always think about the kids in this world. I hope and pray that most of them have good parents who will guide them in the right direction.

 

[TZiggy]

Let em keep pumping money into this bottomless pit.

Let em pat eachother on the back and give eachother awards.

Fewer and fewer are watching their movies, and who gives a rats hiney who gets the golden calf award? Sooner or later advertisers pull funds for award shows and theaters close.

Hollywood is growing increasingly irrelevant. They’re attempts to capture our attention are beyond boorish. Their hell is our complete indifference to thier “products”.

If they ceased to exist tomorrow, my choices of entertainment wouldn’t be affected in the least.

 

[Fitz]

TZiggy:

If they ceased to exist tomorrow, my choices of entertainment wouldn’t be affected in the least.

Each day more and more people turn off Hollywood, much to their surprise. When did they lose us? Well, they did so a little at a time- but right now the tempo is accelerating.

 

[Gerry_Hunter]

Liberalsaved:

You mean they can make the kinds of movies they want and don’t have to listen to you? HORRIBLE!
You better make sure no one forces you to see them, I hear that’s a real problem these days.

If there were a prize for non-sequiturs, this post would be in the running. The comment simply doesn’t flow from the post preceding it , the presumed reference, since there is no other explicit one.

I made the point that greed is the big determiner in film making, and stand by it. Where the comment flows from that,

Blessings,

Gerry

 

[Wolseley]

The last movie I actually saw in a theater was The Passion.

Before that, Saving Private Ryan.

Before that, Titanic.

That shows you how often I go to movie theaters.

I’m doing my part. How about everybody else???

 

[Liberalsaved]

Gerry Hunter:

If there were a prize for non-sequiturs, this post would be in the running. The comment simply doesn’t flow from the post preceding it , the presumed reference, since there is no other explicit one.

I made the point that greed is the big determiner in film making, and stand by it. Where the comment flows from that,

Blessings,

Gerry

It was more directed at the people complaining that movies like this get to be made.

 

[Liberalsaved]

Fitz:

Each day more and more people turn off Hollywood, much to their surprise. When did they lose us? Well, they did so a little at a time- but right now the tempo is accelerating.

They lose people because they used to make better movies. Even the **** was better. Armageddon or XXX? Well, if I HAVE to make a choice…

It has little to do with content and everything to do with quality.

And once again for the record books: BM is an independent film that is only being embraced by a greed-mongering Hollywood because it has oscar shots.

 

[rocklobster]

If that’s the case, then that’s a fluke! I mean, in the past, you had to hunt high and low for the independents! And some of the independent films I’ve seen over the years were actually good: Spitfire Grill , every Miyazaki film, The Passion, Because of Winn-Dixie, Holes, etc. Those are the ones that come to my mind all the time when I think of good independents.
The whole reason I like Japanese animation more and more now is that I know they don’t resort to “agendas” to sell a product. If they throw in something that I think offends me, I’ve realized that I need to step back and realize their culture isn’t based in Christianity. But even so, they still manage to make thought-provoking stuff more often than we have lately. Each of the following shows I mention below will definitely make you agree

• .hack//sign–quite possibly the most BEAUTIFUL cartoon ever made. This cartoon is so mesmerizing. It’s like LOTR meets The Matrix**Trigun: THe main character in this series is essiantally a Christ figure. He is persecuted for a crime he never willingly committed and he is the nicest guy on Earth. And he touches everyone he meets and changes them forever. Even if they do not realize it, a seed is planted.
• Millenium Actress: A film about an actress looking back on her life. This film is filled with the joy of life and seems to imply that the woman lived a great life and has no regrets.
• Inuyasha: don’t let the fact that the hero is “half-demon” throw you off. Inuyasha to me, is a metaphor for humanity. We’re all half-demon. Just like him, we have to decide which side we’re on.
• Azumanga Daioh: This show is cute and funny. There’s no angst in it, and it’s just kids being kids in school. You just can’t help loving it. And the theme song will infect your brain!
• Gundam SeeD: If you want a good argument against war, this is it. It pulls no punches and doesn’t sugarcoat a thing. Both sides are not entirely one way or another and you are allowed to draw your own conclusions.
• FullMetal Alchemist: This is a show about two brothers on the path to redemption. They attempt to use Alchemy to bring their dead mom back from the dead, and they pay the price: one loses his body, the other literally loses an arm and leg. They even meet seven magically-created humans, each one representing and named after a different sin. The show really makes you think about just how fallen we truly are. Don’t be put off by the fact that the hero is an atheist. Or the fact that the first episode has a false prophet in it. Those are only minor greivances.
  THese are all why I’ve pretty much given up on Hollywood.

 

[Liberalsaved]

All I have to add to the above poster is that Grave of the Fireflies is the most heart-wrenching movie ever made.

 

[4HisChurch]

Wolseley:

The last movie I actually saw in a theater was The Passion.

Same here. Not much else worth seeing. Before that, the last movie I made a point to go see in the theaters was Apollo 13.

 

[Orionthehunter]

TZiggy:

Let em keep pumping money into this bottomless pit.

Let em pat eachother on the back and give eachother awards.

Fewer and fewer are watching their movies, and who gives a rats hiney who gets the golden calf award? Sooner or later advertisers pull funds for award shows and theaters close.

Hollywood is growing increasingly irrelevant. They’re attempts to capture our attention are beyond boorish. Their hell is our complete indifference to thier “products”.

If they ceased to exist tomorrow, my choices of entertainment wouldn’t be affected in the least.

I’m inclined to agree w/ this comment. Even my more liberal friends are starting to think that the industry and the polemics coming from the “stars” are moronic.

I especially agree that the growing indifference to their products is causing them great consternation and is their “hell.”

 

[Libero]

Hollywood is a bit hypocritical, they produce many films about homosexuality, treating it like a fun project,

but heaven forbid one of their actors actually be gay!!

That’s one sure way to kill off your Hollywood career…

 

[Gerry_Hunter]

Liberalsaved:

It was more directed at the people complaining that movies like this get to be made.

Oh, let them keep making them, by all means.

WIth Brokeback making just over 30 million, and movies like one LOTR making close to, and Mel Gibson’s “Passion” making over, 10 times as much, they won’t be making them for long – unless they need a tax loss.

Blessings,

Gerry

 

[Liberalsaved]

Gerry Hunter:

Oh, let them keep making them, by all means.

WIth Brokeback making just over 30 million, and movies like one LOTR making close to, and Mel Gibson’s “Passion” making over, 10 times as much, they won’t be making them for long – unless they need a tax loss.

Blessings,

Gerry

And here you’re comparing movies that took a lot more to make. Apples and oranges.