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|    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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