A respite...
...from the ordinary.
Ordinarily, I'm not one to make a big issue of the GAY. I like guys, I don't try to hide it but I'm not a big flamboyant, over the top kinda guy. But sometimes, something comes up that makes me really want to throw it in people's faces and shove their noses in the Discomfort when they say shit. Kind of like you shove a dog's nose in it's shit when it does it's business in the house.
Those moments are rare. I can maybe go over 2 or 3 times but one has recently reared its head and you, get a chance to read about it. I may put this behind an LJ cut, I may not. I don't think it'll be too incredibly long.
But it's about Brokeback Mountain, or rather the effect the movie has had. I've heard a lot of people mention some really ignorant crap about it at random moments that's made me really want to come out of my face and throw down with them over their comments.
Let's establish something first. If you haven't seen it and want to, stop reading. Some of what I'll write may be spoiler-ish. Simply put, the first love scene or rather, sex scene between the two leads is brutal. It's not lovey-dovey. Someone in the theater I was watching it in left and honestly, I don't blame them.
But that's the point. The point of the film, IMHO, is to take something that happened and let people know to the extent that this representation can and let them react. Let them draw their own conclusions.
It's not to create some wholly unreal, imagined situation to titillate 10 percent of the population or trot something controversial out for the sake of gaining Oscar nods. Because that's what I'm getting from a LOT of people and I can only say that my first thought has always been FUCK YOU, especially to the ignorant fuckers that are drawing their conclusions WITHOUT SEEING THE MOVIE FIRST. WTF?
For instance, I was recently at a party where two of the guests were looking over the Oscar nominees. They got to Best Film and Best Director and were like, "It's just because everything that Ang Lee directs is supposed to be so artsy and beautiful. Otherwise, no one would consider the Gay Cowboy movie about American men having American sex in a macho American way," and referred to it, to me, as "Bareback Mountain". While I would have loved to point out the recent porn entitled just that, I was a little busy being offended.
I didn't establish whether they'd seen the movie, but I was suddenly not chatty.
Recently I read something in which the movie was referred to as fucking things up because it lent a sense of indulgence to the movie industry or something. Again, I came away being offended but they had one point. It was, as I said, an uncomfortable movie.
To that I can only repeat that yes, it is. It should be. I'm glad it provoked these responses. I'm perfectly content to see some ignorant assholes for who they truly are. That's the point of art.
...and that's my rant.
Ordinarily, I'm not one to make a big issue of the GAY. I like guys, I don't try to hide it but I'm not a big flamboyant, over the top kinda guy. But sometimes, something comes up that makes me really want to throw it in people's faces and shove their noses in the Discomfort when they say shit. Kind of like you shove a dog's nose in it's shit when it does it's business in the house.
Those moments are rare. I can maybe go over 2 or 3 times but one has recently reared its head and you, get a chance to read about it. I may put this behind an LJ cut, I may not. I don't think it'll be too incredibly long.
But it's about Brokeback Mountain, or rather the effect the movie has had. I've heard a lot of people mention some really ignorant crap about it at random moments that's made me really want to come out of my face and throw down with them over their comments.
Let's establish something first. If you haven't seen it and want to, stop reading. Some of what I'll write may be spoiler-ish. Simply put, the first love scene or rather, sex scene between the two leads is brutal. It's not lovey-dovey. Someone in the theater I was watching it in left and honestly, I don't blame them.
But that's the point. The point of the film, IMHO, is to take something that happened and let people know to the extent that this representation can and let them react. Let them draw their own conclusions.
It's not to create some wholly unreal, imagined situation to titillate 10 percent of the population or trot something controversial out for the sake of gaining Oscar nods. Because that's what I'm getting from a LOT of people and I can only say that my first thought has always been FUCK YOU, especially to the ignorant fuckers that are drawing their conclusions WITHOUT SEEING THE MOVIE FIRST. WTF?
For instance, I was recently at a party where two of the guests were looking over the Oscar nominees. They got to Best Film and Best Director and were like, "It's just because everything that Ang Lee directs is supposed to be so artsy and beautiful. Otherwise, no one would consider the Gay Cowboy movie about American men having American sex in a macho American way," and referred to it, to me, as "Bareback Mountain". While I would have loved to point out the recent porn entitled just that, I was a little busy being offended.
I didn't establish whether they'd seen the movie, but I was suddenly not chatty.
Recently I read something in which the movie was referred to as fucking things up because it lent a sense of indulgence to the movie industry or something. Again, I came away being offended but they had one point. It was, as I said, an uncomfortable movie.
To that I can only repeat that yes, it is. It should be. I'm glad it provoked these responses. I'm perfectly content to see some ignorant assholes for who they truly are. That's the point of art.
...and that's my rant.