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Directed by Ang Lee Focus Features 5 Stars The cultural pressure placed on “Brokeback Mountain” to be a commercial and artistic success has been, to say the least, staggering. Perhaps unfairly, renaissance-man director Ang Lee (“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”) and his two cowboys are expected to deliver the “Big Gay Love Story”—epic, sexy, tear-jerking, and with just enough political consciousness to please its liberal target audience. I’ve always been a fan of the devil?...
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...
...freshening” Marissa’s “glass.” So skillful, that Alex.3. Feeling sexually frustrated from his lack of horizontal mambo-ness with Kirsten, Sandy will turn to immensely peculiar office-worker Matt. They will go all “Brokeback Mountain.” They will get caught by Matt’s stripper friend who is working her way through law school. About 17 kinds of awkward.2. Trey will reappear, and Marissa, once done with both Johnny and Ryan, will fall for him. On their first date, they will slow-dance...
...label “Brokeback Mountain” as “the gay cowboy” movie is fundamentally inaccurate. Yes, the two main characters are men—specifically, Wyoming ranch hands. And, during a chilly 1963 summer, they bide their time herding sheep and plunging tumultuously into a fervid romance.But words like “gay” are the sort of reductive labels against which this movie kicks and spits. The relationship between gruff, gravel-mouthed Ennis (Heath Ledger—“A Knight’s Tale”) and the more nimble...
...pretty cross-dresser in “Breakfast on Pluto,” and Felicity Huffman is a midlife-crisis pre-op in “Transamerica.” And all that’s in addition to the Jake Gyllenhaal/Heath Ledger vehicle, “Brokeback Mountain,” which is almost universally known as “the gay cowboy movie.” This week, we asked students what they thought of the trend. Sophie M. Noero ’06 It’s interesting that when straight actors play those roles they...