Brokeback Mountain
How unfortunate it is that such a powerful and artfully directed piece of
cinematic history should be, seriously, about gay cowboys. I'm gonna go
ahead and say that again, in a somewhat different way, so you can understand
the full implication of the idea: Brokeback Mountain, a movie which Ang Lee
won an Academy Award for his direction of, is a major motion picture about
two cowboys who love the cock.
Some people think that this isn't funny. Some people think that, as
homosexuals are on the cusp of the last great civil rights movement, this is a
socially important film in addition to being a critically acclaimed movie.
However, those people fail to understand how funny a movie about gay
cowboys is, at its very base. It's not just funny, it's really fucking funny. It's
hysterical. If you don't get that, I don't know what to tell you other than note
that this might as well have been a movie about an Indian, a cop and a
construction-worker who love to sing songs about the Navy.
Okay, fine, I never saw Brokeback Mountain but I may some day. It'll come to
cable soon and I'll watch it to see what the hype was about. I may even eat my
words and not laugh once. I may even like it.
I won't get a boner though... not that there would be anything wrong with that,
if I did. Right?
How unfortunate it is that such a powerful and artfully directed piece of
cinematic history should be, seriously, about gay cowboys. I'm gonna go
ahead and say that again, in a somewhat different way, so you can understand
the full implication of the idea: Brokeback Mountain, a movie which Ang Lee
won an Academy Award for his direction of, is a major motion picture about
two cowboys who love the cock.
Some people think that this isn't funny. Some people think that, as
homosexuals are on the cusp of the last great civil rights movement, this is a
socially important film in addition to being a critically acclaimed movie.
However, those people fail to understand how funny a movie about gay
cowboys is, at its very base. It's not just funny, it's really fucking funny. It's
hysterical. If you don't get that, I don't know what to tell you other than note
that this might as well have been a movie about an Indian, a cop and a
construction-worker who love to sing songs about the Navy.
Okay, fine, I never saw Brokeback Mountain but I may some day. It'll come to
cable soon and I'll watch it to see what the hype was about. I may even eat my
words and not laugh once. I may even like it.
I won't get a boner though... not that there would be anything wrong with that,
if I did. Right?
