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   Message 889 of 1,275   
   Gerald Clough to Von Fourche   
   Re: Brokeback Mountain   
   14 Dec 05 20:10:39   
   
   From: firstinitiallastname@texas.net   
      
   Von Fourche wrote:   
   >     Finally, a cowboy movie telling about real cowboys!  lol.  Yeah, we all   
   > know what the Lone Ranger and Tonto were doing when they were camping out in   
   > the middle of nowhere.   
   >   
   >     I'll make a prediction - this film will not spend one day in the number   
   > one spot at the box office when it comes out (no pun intended.)  lol   
      
   Perhaps not. I can see the point of the maker. Gay cowboys gives it the   
   hook of being set in a culture with very little tolerance. Lots of angst   
   and soul searching. There certainly are gay cowboys - and gay anything   
   else. And, if you want to tell a gay cowboy story, the 1960's at least   
   provide some frame of reference. Easier than doing enough research to   
   set it in the 19th century. They bought the rights to a short story. I   
   wonder if they considered setting it in the old West. It might have   
   induced some "oh, come on, now" response and might have bound them to   
   try too hard to be convincing about something with little or now   
   existing commentary.   
      
      
   --   
                          Gerald Clough   
       "Nothing has any value, unless you know you can give it up."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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