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AgentWood wrote:
Dan Delgado wrote:
AgentWood wrote: brokeback mountain. an incredible film and a big up to jim schamus.
Is your avatar an old Virginia Slims ad?
my dad and i.
Pretty funny picture, you are really a wonderful woman full or resources aren't you? ;)
[orange]|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3[/orange] wrote: I haven't seen Brokeback Mountain, the obvious magnet of the season. I will probably see it sooner or later, intentionally or by chance. It doesn't matter. :) But there's something I feel awkard towards to. What makes me cringe is "daring". It's a daring movie. Basically, if it were a story between a man and a woman, would it be of the same interest and intrigue? Or is it only the "gay" aspect that moves our curious souls?
but who calls the film daring? the critics. many of whom use cliches abundantly.
what ang lee made was a film that has moments of humour, empathy, surprise and sadness (probably all cliches, but there you go). there is actually very little interaction between ledger and gyllenhaal after the first 30 minutes of the film. i suppose the best way to describe brokeback mountain is as a story about adaptation: the adaptation one must make when one lives his or her life as a lie (and i do include her as there are strong female roles in this film) and how it affects family and emotional well-being.
I just saw "Kontroll" last night and hereby give it the Oskar for best picture. Time to give Hungary some award love.
(OK, so it came out in 2003, but that doesn't disqualify it for the Oskarz.)
The award for visual effects goes to David Hasselhoff.
AgentWood wrote:
[orange]|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3[/orange] wrote: I haven't seen Brokeback Mountain, the obvious magnet of the season. I will probably see it sooner or later, intentionally or by chance. It doesn't matter. :) But there's something I feel awkard towards to. What makes me cringe is "daring". It's a daring movie. Basically, if it were a story between a man and a woman, would it be of the same interest and intrigue? Or is it only the "gay" aspect that moves our curious souls?
but who calls the film daring? the critics. many of whom use cliches abundantly.
what ang lee made was a film that has moments of humour, empathy, surprise and sadness (probably all cliches, but there you go). there is actually very little interaction between ledger and gyllenhaal after the first 30 minutes of the film. i suppose the best way to describe brokeback mountain is as a story about adaptation: the adaptation one must make when one lives his or her life as a lie (and i do include her as there are strong female roles in this film) and how it affects family and emotional well-being.
May be so. Like I said I have yet to see it. But admit, the director kept an eye for an epatage (not just gays, but gay cowboys, poor women used to camouflage men's opposite feelings).
