02-02-2006, 06:00 AM | #1 |
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Brokeback Mountain (again)
I believe someone on this site predicted that it would be nominated for an Academy Award. Whoever it was, was spot on.
My question: if it wasn't about a homosexual relationship, would it have been nominated? My guess is that it wouldn't have received a nomination, as the gay agenda is Hollywood's latest societal cause du jour.
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02-02-2006, 06:46 AM | #2 |
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Perhaps you are jumping to conclusions.
My question: if it wasn't about a cowboy relationship, would it have been nominated? How do you know that the cowboy agenda isn't Hollywood's latest cause du jour?
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02-02-2006, 01:03 PM | #3 |
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Ang Lee has made many good movies. Throw in the writer of Lonesome Dove....
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02-02-2006, 01:20 PM | #4 |
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As someone said on utefans.net
"No one writes depressing gay cowboy stories like Ang Lee"
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02-02-2006, 01:27 PM | #5 |
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Lee already made a movie about a gay guy, who marries a girl to please his parents, etc.
"The Wedding Banquet" |
02-02-2006, 04:40 PM | #6 |
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It seems like every movie nominated for an Oscar now a days has to be controversial.
Whatever happened to the good wholesome family films, that were good for a few laughs and you really dont have to think all that much to enjoy them, take Cheaper By the Dozen for example. I mean Steve Martin are favorite LDS actor is in it, why doesnt that get a nod.
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02-02-2006, 05:26 PM | #8 |
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Quentin Tarantino might be the greatest director ever, i would love to see him do a kids movie, how bad ass would shrek be? He would have sliced the donkey all to pieces, and then drank the blood.
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Re: Brokeback Mountain (again)
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If the relationship in Brokeback Mountain were between a man and a woman it would be a story about marriage, and maybe about marital infidelity. Apples and oranges. If Don Corleone were a dry cleaner with no mob connections would the Godfather have been as beloved?
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Re: Brokeback Mountain (again)
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The list of movie genres seems to diminish every year. Or I just grow crankier every year, I'm uncertain which is closer to the truth.
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