It was always good for that.
Posted on 03/28/2021 8:19:43 AM PDT by Twotone
That’s killed himself out of shame.
Steyn has it correct: this worthless movie was made to outrage moral America...it imploded because we just made fun of it.
I find it sad and wasteful.....
....McMurtry wrote well, initially......
....he wrote westerns....
I think the seduction of Hollywood possessed him to mess it up with the gay movie....and this is highlighted in his obituary
Also noticed it didn’t do a lot forGyllenhaal’s career, imo......( he was so good in the earlier October Sky.)......but after this BM I considered him gay and lost interest
Ledger killed himself
Maybe both gay
And it was a long time before I would watch Hathaway in any thing...
It felt like that movie took her innocence after doing Princess Bride
I know I’m distilling it down rather naively
I didn’t see BM......but I watched the lives of those who played in it
That last paragraph sums things up nicely.
And for a lot more than just this movie.
They weren’t even cowboys
“Ang Lee’s opening is very good: two young men who don’t know each other wait outside a shabby trailer to be called in and offered a sheep-herding job, in the summer of ‘63.”
There is a gay casting couch in Hollyweird. Even if the actors are not gay they made have to do some sexual things with men to advance their careers.
Been that way for over 60 years
The story I heard is that was basically how John Travolta was “turned”.
I always wonder about that too. It didn’t seem to hurt Jake, but Maybe Ledger couldn’t take the jokes or maybe he realized he had been manipulated.
Could’ve been the Scientologists who did tgat.
Rev. Jim Jones sodomized the men in his cult to get them to “release” their tensions.
Bill Ayers and the weather underground swapped sex partners male and female. They wanted to smash monogamy. Take the system down. The women have since stated the sex was not always consensual.
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He is. And so clever. Love the man.
I always wondered what would make a man prefer homosexual sex over heterosexual sex. From what I’ve seen most of the time, they were boys when first introduced to homosexual sex. And had homosexual sex before they had experienced heterosexual sex.
Is it what is first experienced that makes the desire or imprint on out minds?
Also when I was young it seems like there were a lot of bisexual people. Now, if a man has had homosexual sex, he claims the homosexual, but not the heterosexual identity. No more bisexuals.
To be clear, McMurtry’s writing partner Diana Ossanna did the screenwriting for all of the scenes between the two main characters. McMurtry did the rest. He is one of my favorite authors- Lonesome Dove was unforgettable. The movie was pretty good too! I have not seen BM.
LOVE tuning in to Stein- always knowledgeable and entertaining. Like a lot of Brits, he has a way with understatement.
I think it’s a coping mechanism for people who are abused, they try to rationalize it by convincing themselves that it’s what they really wanted.
Uh, that's funny, Mark, but I just as soon have that stay behind closed doors.
“I like Ms Proulx’s books not because of the characters or the plots but because she’s spent much of her life roaming the same turf I have — Vermont, Quebec, Newfoundland — and she’s got a tremendous ability to capture the essence of the land, and in particular the way a harsh terrain shapes the character of its people.”
‘The Shipping News’ by E. Annie Proulx is my favorite novel of all time. I read it in 1993 and to this DAY, I still wonder what her characters are up to these days. The movie was horrible. Kevin Spacey is NOT Quoyle. Not by a long shot.
Another Pulitzer winner that I thought was amazingly good was ‘The Goldfinch’ by Donna Tartt. Again, the movie was awful. Tartt’s ‘The Secret History’ is another great read.
It was always good for that.
Thankfully i never saw the movie, and never want to.
But one thing I’ve always wondered about...why aren’t there jokes about ‘breaking someone’s back’ regarding ‘that movie’?
Seems kind of a natural. For an unnatural.
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