The New Yorker has made Annie Proulx’s short story Brokeback Mountain, on which the movie is based, available on its website. I’ll have to read it either before or after seeing the movie, which opens tomorrow.
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The New Yorker has made Annie Proulx’s short story Brokeback Mountain, on which the movie is based, available on its website. I’ll have to read it either before or after seeing the movie, which opens tomorrow.
It’s a good read… I’m curious about the film since Gus Van Sant used to be attached to direct before the surprising choice of Ang Lee. But ‘Bareback Mountain’ as I’m sure it will soon be known in gay circles (as I’m not the only one whose mind quickly turns to easy gay puns) might be a bit more of a gay rallying point if any gay people actually worked on the film, though.
The story is trite, the movie is a giant step backwards for gay cinema. We’re invited to celebrate a closet as big as all outdoors.
I know you don’t like people linking to their blogs, so I won’t. But you’ll find what I have to say about this thing at mine.
I was hoping I’d find this before seeing the movie, but now I’m not sure if I should read it. Won’t it just spoil the movie knowing what happens?
Over my strenuous objections Bareback Molehill was Voted Best Picture of the Year by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and Ang Lee was voted Best Director.
Zip for Jake and Heath.
I must say I quite liked ‘The Icestorm’ but that was in Ang Lee’s past of course. You obviously do not like his latest opus at all, David E.!