Hollywood Rocked: 'Gay Cowboy' Movie Becomes an Oscar Frontrunner

Drudge Report ^ | November 6, 2005

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HOLLYWOOD ROCKED: 'GAY COWBOY' MOVIE BECOMES AN OSCAR FRONTRUNNER

Arriving with nudity and explicit gay sex scenes between two cowboys, UNIVERSAL/FOCUS FILMS's BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN has quietly become an award season frontrunner, interviews with Academy members reveal.

"It could very well be the last film standing at this year's Oscars," a top Hollywood producer not associated with the film explained from Hollywood.

"There was not a dry eye in the house at the screening at Telluride [Film Festival in Colorado]," says the producer, who asked not to be named out of respect for the cast and crew of the producer's own Oscar contender. "Watch it come out of the gate at the Golden Globes with super controversy."

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS critic Jack Mathews predicts the gay cowboy movie, which takes place in Wyoming, may be "too much for red-state audiences, but it gives the liberal-leaning Academy a great chance to stick its thumb in conservatives' eyes."

Director Ang Lee's movie staring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger won the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival earlier this fall.

But will a movie even Madonna calls "shocking" sit with the heartland?

Playwright and lifelong Wyomingite tells the STAR-TRIBUNE of Casper this week that she has never encountered a gay cowboy, and doesn't think it's right for Hollywood to portray Wyoming as a state with gay cowboys.

Her message to the writers of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN: “Don't try and take what we had, which was wonderful -- the cowboys that settled the state and made it what it was -- don't ruin that image... There's nothing better than plain old cowboys and the plain old history without embellishing it to suit everyone."

Meanwhile, Michell Howard of the state's Travel and Tourism Division says her agency is already hearing a buzz that people in other countries are expressing interest in visiting Wyoming because of the film.

“It's gotten rave reviews from the international community,” she said. “I don't know if they're more tolerant or something, but they're viewing it as a great Western movie.”

Developing...

[inkling]

Does Hollywood even want to make money any more? They are coming off one of their worst summers in memory and they think gay cowboys eating pudding (hat tip: Cartman) will fill the Peoria cineplex?

[wmfights]

Every year they have declining box office and can't figure out why. Wow, what a bunch of dummies.

The last world wide hit they had out of hollywierd they denounced, "The Passion of The Christ", and that was only made because of Mel Gibson.

[U S Army EOD]

Get ready guys, here it comes.

[baltodog]

HA!!!

BRAINSTORM!!!!

Let's make a movie showing sympathy for the plight of two gay islamofacists!!!

[Rodney King]

I'm with you. I haven't been to the theater since 1997.

[Theresawithanh]

HA! Good one!

[mattdono]

Must we destroy all of our cultural icons?

No, we mustn't. Hollyweird and the whacko left that controls Hollyweird must and will continue to do so.

[laney]

Yeah I guess he's a Major Switch Hitter!

[NeoCaveman]

Independent movies are all the same, gay cowboys eating pudding.

[RushingWater]

They need to run this slick, Hollywood beautified promo right along side random interviews from the Gay Rodeo in Austin, TX. Let me tell you, the real world will have you think "EEEWWWEEE" about gay cowboys!

[DoughtyOne]

I agree completely. My wife loves to watch them, but they mean nothing to me at all. I can't watch for more than a few minutes before being repulsed so bad I simply cannot continue to watch.

[Westlander]

Not since 1980 for me.

[little jeremiah]

Homosexual Agenda Ping.

A few months ago there was a big noise made about this revolting specimen of a movie. Now they're trying to make it appealing to the masses via Oscarhood. Fat chance. Reminds me of the Kinsey bio "starring" Liam Neeson (another actor I will never clap my eyes on). I don't remember reading if it was a flop or not, I certainly hope so - hope it lost money big time.

Imagine long lines of people trying to get in to see this!

Freepmail me and DirtyHarryY2K if you want on/off this pinglist.

Note: Another example (as if you needed one) of how Hollyweird is actively trying to - with some success - to mold the hoi polloi into a shape they like. Immoral, leftist, shallow, God haters like themselves.

[linn37]

Bubble boy should have stayed in his bubble.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Looks like Anne Hathaway is trying to avoid being typecast in "Princess Diaries"-type movies.

[wagglebee]

The Oscars are following in the same tradition as the Nobel Peace Prize, it will be given to the movie that most offends America's Judeo-Christian values.

[Welsh Rabbit]

The idea of making good movies anymore is, at best, secondary.

Also the idea of making money, apparently.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

Ahem.

BAMBI is a boy name.

Ergo, "The Young Prince"....

[visualops]

Premise: Set in Texas and Wyoming, this is the romantic tale of two male cowboys from very different backgrounds who meet and fall in love while working together as sheep ranch hands near Wyoming's Brokeback Mountain the summer of 1961. Their lives take different courses, however, with Jack Twist (Gyllenhaal) becoming a rodeo cowboy while Ennis Del Mar (Ledger) remains a ranch hand, and the film follows their lives as they see each other again over the next 20 years. Their relationship is rocky, however, as they must deal with the challenges posed as the intolerance of pre-(and post)-Stonewall rural America rears its ugly, violent head against the two lovers. (Williams plays Ledger's wife; Hathaway plays Gyllenhaal's wife; Quaid plays a ranch foreman.)

Gay activist movie.

[x5452]

I predict even smaller ratings for the awards show and less roles for the actors.