Posted on 01/17/2006 5:12:11 AM PST by devane617
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The "gay cowboy movie" "Brokeback Mountain" led the Golden Globes Monday night with four prizes, including best dramatic film and the directing honor for Ang Lee. As expected, it was a triumphant night for films dealing with homosexuality and transsexuality. Along with the victories for "Brokeback Mountain," acting honors went to Felicity Huffman in a gender-bending role as a man preparing for sex-change surgery in "Transamerica" and Philip Seymour Hoffman as gay author Truman Capote in "Capote." "I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become who we really are, and so I would like to salute the men and women who brave ostracism, alienation and a life lived on the margins to become who they really are," Huffman said.
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Don't dispair. I believe that Hollywood did the conservative movement a big favor in pushing these movies and i can't wait until the Academy Awards. They will prove again that their objective is to corrupt our society injecting through movies the lowest common denominators. Hollywood is already a hellhole but people often what to drag everyone else in the whole with them. Someone today said the latest documentary on Lincoln suggests he's gay. I've heard this tale before and its based on desparate wishful thinking of gays. Just because people were forced to share beds in cramped inns that makes Lincoln gay. If thats the case, then everyone who traveled and stayed in an inn was gay too.
Re: Lincoln... I saw that broadcast... changed the channel after that comment....If that's the case I guess my sisters and I and my baby brother must also be gay. Oh yeah, and my parents must have been pedophiles when we all jumped in their bed on a stormy night. GEEZ....
I can't WAIT not to see this movie...
I guess anyone who shared a bed in the history of the planet is gay. There's no such thing in gayland as people just flopping out and going to sleep. No, in their deviant minds you must be doing the nasty.
The last time I went to a Movie Theater was in 1991 . . . and I walked out in the middle.
I guess that's my point regarding the Gay Movement or Agenda or whatever... It's all about defining yourself by your sexuality, instead of defining yourself by the great person you can strive to be. We use to inspire children with stories of heroes who achieved greatness through their good work and perseverance against all odds. Lincoln was just such a hero. JFK wrote a book... Profiles in Courage, that inspired kids. Today it's about how you persevered against the horrible homophobes. What a crock.
I have not given a penny to hollyweirdo liberals for over 15 years. And never will. The worst book is far,far better than the (so-called) best movie.
I hate to tell you, but this film is your classic "platform release." That means they keep expanding throughout the awards season as the film gets more publicity. It's going to keep making money up through the Oscars the first week in March. It looks to me like it's almost certain to pass 70 million domestic now and possibly break into the top 25 at the box office for the year. I don't know why everyone is so surprised though. Farenheit 9/11 made abour 120 million in the US. Practically half the country voted for John Kerry. There are a lot of liberals in this country and, among the liberal whites, at least, there is a lot more acceptance of homosexuality than there used to be.
Sure, Narnia is more popular, cause it gets the family business. But Brokeback is a legitimate hit too. There are two Americas, as Edwards says--just not what he means, exactly. America is more divided by social issues than economic ones. Hollywood tends to ignore conservative America, but they have to be aware of the popularity of The Passion and Narnia. A sequel to Narnia already is in production. And, yeah, there will probably be some more gay films too now.
"BAREBACK MOUNTAIN" is not a film for me either. No matter what its artistic merit, it is the agenda and message of the film that is offensive.
Hitler made great propaganda films; that doesn't make them any less despicable.
Is this movie for kids? They already have the answer if they watch SOUTH PARK:"all about gay cowboys eating pudding"
Cartman is prescient, or maybe these morons took the idea from Cartman.
Yes, and the story was an old one even before Wagner adapted it. I doubt there's much singing in the movie. ;)
"Re: Lincoln... I saw that broadcast... changed the channel after that comment...."
Then you didn't see it refuted by a subsequent commentator.
When I was a child, there was a drama series on CBS (I forget the name) that weekly told stories of figures in American history, such as Nathan Hale, in dramatic form. I also remember Leonard Bernstein's series, "The young people's guide to the orchestra", which taught an appreciation of classical music (my parents did that at home, as well). What happened to programming like this? Is there really no audience for it? That's hard to believe.
ABC or CBS had a series about American History. It did the Gunfight at the OK Corral and others. It was great and it retold these events in an impartial way. Back then there was no George Clooney to lie and twist actual events to his liking. People simply told the story based on eyewitnesses and not just the eyewitnesses they agreed with. Linda what happened to those days where TV producers didn't interject their personal lifestyle into the lives of historical figures. This lie about Lincoln dishonors a man who shaved years off his life fostering a young country through a painful civil war at the expense of his family. And how do we honor him now by allowing fags to label him a degenerate because he shared a bed with a law partner in an inn as they traveled for their work. Everyone did back then and sometimes you doubled up with complete strangers. Did anyone ever see John Candy and Steve Martin in Trains, Planes, and Cars where they had to share a bed. I guess Candy and Martin are fags too if you live by that reasoning.
Tristan and Isolde/Tristan et Isolde is vastly older than Wagner - classic medieval story.
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