Posted on 01/25/2008 9:51:57 AM PST by Perdogg
Mel Gibson has called Heath Ledger's death this week a "tragic loss." But in recent years, Gibson had distanced himself from the risk-taking actor, it's been claimed.
Gibson turned cold toward Ledger after the Aussie star ignored his advice not to play a gay cowboy in "Brokeback Mountain," according to private investigator Paul Barresi.
Ledger and Gibson had grown close while filming "The Patriot," in which Ledger played Gibson's son.
"Ledger asked Gibson whether he should take the role of Ennis Del Mar in 'Brokeback,'" Barresi says a "major Hollywood producer" told him. "Gibson strongly counseled against it. The role apparently ran counter to Gibson's morality. And he felt that it would ruin Heath's career."
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What if he wanted to play an anti-Semitic, chain-smoking, blue-streak-cursing, drunk-driving, police officer-abusing, gory violence-obsessed, nutcase drunk? Would that be okay with “moral” Mel?
This is not surprising.
It’s very disappointing to me, too.
After looking into the writers and directer I have to agree with you.
But IMO it’s irresponsible to promote homosexuality as a healthy lifestyle, which(not having seen the movie) the film seems to do.
I didn’t see the movie but with all the vicious things that have been said I’m tempted—if nothing else just to see if all the hand flapping & hyperventilating is even remotely justified.
I’m guessing it’s not. And I’m pretty sure I’m right.
2. Bareback Mountain was a ho hum drama in a year of bad films. I did think PSH (best actor working right now, IMHO) did deserve his award for Capote.
Now, what about a film where a character does drugs, commits adultery, murders, has premarital sex, uses the Lord’s name in vain or commits a crime?
Are each of those films promoting such a lifestyle?
For all of its faults, the Ice Storm was still far superior to the similar (but overpraised) American Beauty.
Does the movie you’re talking about promote those behaviors? If so, my answer is yes.
Simply because a behavior takes place in a movie does not mean that the behavior is being promoted.
American Beauty was the first movie to show me how twisted Hollywood is. THAT movie was propaganda IMO.
Written by Alan Ball, an attack and ridicule on the country from what I suppose is an angry homosexual.
Find me a person who saw Brokeback Mountain and decided to leave his wife for a gay cowboy.
Or as Andrew Dice Clay put it, 'you either suck d, or you do not suck d, there is no in between.'
I especially loved the not-so-subtle attack on both heterosexuality and the military in Chris Cooper’s closeted Marine.
There was and should be responsibility in what is shown. Every movie effects people’s behavior to some degree. Whether it be drugs, violence, etc.
I’m more concerned about a person who is having a rough time in life and decides to try out a homosexual lifestyle because movies like this make it seem mainstream.
We used to enjoy him in the tv series ‘Roar’, but it only lasted one season.
The reason Hollywood has to make sequels and recreate older franchises is because they’re too twisted to be genuinely creative on a high level anymore.
I wonder why people are taking this movie as reason why he died. If he committed suicide during the filming of Brokeback Mountain or died of an overdose shortly after the film came out I could maybe see a connection. The movie was out years ago (at least 3) and he has done plenty of movies since. Jake Gellehaul (spell?) seems to be fine so I don’t see any possible way that this movie had anything whatsoever to do with his death which from what has been in the news is going to be an accident.
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