Posted on 09/11/2005 12:27:51 PM PDT by wagglebee
"Brokeback Mountain," the story of two homosexual cowboys starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, topped 19 competitors, including George Clooney's "Good Night, and Good Luck" to win the Venice Film Festival's top award yesterday.
The film has been called "groundbreaking" by homosexual activists for the amount of "gay" sex that is shown on screen.
Mel Gibson fans will remember Heath Ledger as the eldest son in "The Patriot" determined to fight for independence against the British, the innocent but brave fair-haired boy-man who struggles for justice even among his fellow southern colonialists.
Gyllenhaal is best known for his role as Dennis Quaid's son in "The Day After Tomorrow," last year's science-fiction film that portrayed how climate could flood New York City and put the Northern Hemisphere into a new Ice Age.
Gyllenhaal told Gay.com that filming the homosexual scenes were difficult, but for physical rather than emotional reasons, almost leading to a fractured nose.
"[Ledger] grabs me and he slams me up against the wall and kisses me, and then I grab him and I slam him up against the wall and I kiss him," he said recently, adding the love scenes were the most violent he'd ever done.
"We were doing take after take after take. I got the sh-- beat out of me. ... We had other scenes where we fought each other and I wasn't hurting as badly as I did after that one."
While Ledger admitted his nervousness about portraying a homosexual, Gyllenhaal said understood the universal aspects of the relationship, despite reaction from his friends.
"They're all like, 'Dude, you're gonna kiss a guy.' But it's not about that for me. It's about how impossible love can be sometimes, and I can relate to that."
"As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy," Gyllenhaal added.
While "Brokeback Mountain" received the Golden Lion award in Venice, George Clooney did not go home empty-handed.
"Good Night, and Good Luck" won best screenplay, and its star, David Strathairn, garned best actor for his portrayal of journalist Edward R. Murrow.
Murrow used television in the 1950s to highlight alleged bullying tactics of Sen. Joseph McCarthy in his anti-Communist crusade.
"This film is a tribute to the reporters who are in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Africa, in our poor city of New Orleans, to bring us the truth," Clooney said.
"As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy," Gyllenhaal added."
[More sodomite propaganda.]
Do nanoseconds count?
LOL!! Wear what you like! I'm sure I must cause cognitive dissonance amongst the folks where I live by wearing my Birkie clogs with socks all through the winter, then opening my mouth and this conservative stuff comes out! ;o)
Ah, you're undercover!
Uh, I heard that it was actually pretty graphic, with Heath playing the "male" and Jake being the "female". I'm sure I don't have to provide more details.
"As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy,"
OH, NO!!! This is horrible!!!!
I'm 42 with a wife and 2 kids,...when do you think this will happen to me!!!
That's why I said the IMDb is out of date. But, who knows. They may wise up and cut it down before it's released outside of a film festival. I won't see it regardless.
#1: Women who think Jake and Heath are hot aren't going to want to see them have sex with each other. No woman I have ever known thinks that gay sex is fun to watch, good to watch, hot to watch, etc. It disgusts most women to think of 2 men being intimate.
#2: No male that is straight or sane will waste one SECOND or one dollar buying a ticket to a movie to watch two "cowboys" having sex. Come ON! Hollywood MUST be totally insane to even pretend this movie will have an audience. I am totally amazed that 2 cowboys kissing and having sex would be considered mainstream movie material. Men having sex with other men is the apex of gross to most Americans...even seeing two men together in public holding hands makes me want to run away crying, vomiting, screaming, and begging God to send down a lightning bolt of cleansing flame...
The original was better.
There is that village people guy......
"starring Heath Ledger "
Heath will probably not get another Mel Gibson produced, directed, or acted film.
Foxx did do some singing in Ray. Foxx is also white and had to sit for 3 hours in make up every day.
>>Personally, the only movie I've seen this year is Batman and Transporter II. <<
So did you see this interview with the director of Transporter II:
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times recently, Transporter 2 director Louis Leterrier revealed that he was desperate to keep his American directorial debut from turning into "a Steven Seagal kind of movie very formulaic and predigested." So he did the obvious: threw in a gay subtext.
No, really. Though Leterrier made no changes to mentor Luc Besson's script, he swears that his main character (Frank Martin, played be the lovely Jason Statham) is "the first gay action hero. To the director, not only does this wrinkle make watching the movie much more fun, but it also serves as a cheeky sort of taunt to film's audience. "Action fans in general are pretty homophobic...If they only knew they're really cheering for a new kind of action hero."
http://www.cinematical.com/2005/09/04/the-big-gay-transporter/
"As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy," Gyllenhaal added.
If true, all the more reason not to allow children to be taught homosexual behavior is normal.
I have been told by a few heterosexual men that it's common, when very young, to have those thoughts. It shocked me, I thought they all thought about sheep.
I guess it can be assumed by him having his friend come to visit, but there is nothing that overtly implies this in the film. The whole movie is such a parody of action movies it wouldn't surprise me though.
The Village Epople guy is about as much of a cowboy as Michael Moore :-)
did he ride side saddle?
Just because he liked to keep his car clean and not mess up his suit, that makes him gay?
Sounds silly to me..
"What's everybody looking at?"
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.