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.
Even a shop teacher could do that.
It's still porn. Hardly groundbreaking.
Yep. Though the you-know-whats might break the floorboards.
I'm not getting a good visual of you and Joe. But I did go to a rodeo in Cody Wyoming a while back and those cowboys wouldn't go for that other stuff. Those kids were amazing and straight as a knife blade at your throat.
Ah, what?
Is that a euphamism?
I like "The Patriot" A knights Tale" AND 10 Things I Hate About You" al with Keith Ledger. I had no clue he was a poofter.
Yeah, I'd definitely see that one!
They teach this in school now....it is a well known "fact"
They teach this in school now....it is a well known "fact"
I don't.
That's gonna hurt. I like to wear my Noconas in the winter, to keep my feet dry, but I don't want to look like I'm homo-chic. Maybe the fundamentalist-frump denim maternity jumper will be enough of a contrary statement ...
Already happening.
Ain't that the truth? That would make a great tag line...I think I've seen it elsewhere on FR.
Hollywood keeps blaming everyone and everything but themselves for their slump. They talk blame DVDs, the economy, the weather and everything else that pops into their heads. The truth is that most movies today absolutely suck, in fact many of them are remakes of movies and TV shows from the 70s that sucked then and still suck. To make matters worse, the Hollyweird elites seem to think that they are now political analysts, but they fail to understand that a huge portion of the population will skip their movies because of this anti-American rhetoric. And now the only movies the Hollyweird types seem to get excited about are the ones that are offensive to maost Americans.
He isn't. He has a kid on the way with Michelle Williams, and has dated Naomi Watts among others.
He was probably watching Entourage when he got the script and realized they were right when Drama says, "If you play gay or retarded you get an Oscar." Although he is behind the times since now they prefer musicians. Joaquin Phoenix is already getting Oscar buzz for playing Johnny Cash, and judging from the trailer he is deserving. He did all his own singing which Jamie Foxx didn't do.
I also think the preview for George Clooney's new film looks pretty good.
God...look at the choices...Gay Cowboys and Clooney's Anti-McCarthy movie. It's getting worse from Hollywood.
I've never been a fan of McCarthy, but you're right, not much choice at all.
ROTFLMAO
"The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut the f*ck up."
LOL! My sentiments exactly.
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