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James Schamus, co-president of Focus Features, which produced “Brokeback Mountain,” hosted a preview screening of that film at the Harvard Film Archive last Friday, and described the five-year journey “Brokeback??’s story has taken, and explained why he and director Ang Lee wanted to make a movie about universal love. Making a gay cowboy movie was never much of a discussion, according to Schamus. “We really wanted to make a big, gooey, epic love story,” he said...
...what’s so beautiful.” He sees “Brokeback Mountain” as a film that’s “deconstructing that whole theory of sexuality.” SUCH GREAT HEIGHTSThe dense, but appropriately languid screenplay for “Brokeback?? is a masterful retelling of an Annie Proulx (“The Shipping News”) short story, adapted for the screen by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. The Proulx story, first appearing in a 1997 New Yorker magazine, has since become the stuff of legend, and those...
...especially in our government, I think moderates and liberals are feeling more sympathetic toward [gay issues]. Sarah M. Miller ’06 It’s an easy way to make a really crappy film seem profound–I haven’t seen “Brokeback?? but from the previews it seems like a typical stupid love movie, except [the main characters] are gay. I like seeing cowboys kissing, but I think women are a lot less interested in seeing gay guys making out than men are in seeing women make...
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