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Talk:Brokeback Mountain (view source)
Revision as of 20:05, October 7, 2008
, 20:05, October 7, 2008→"Concealed" theme of homosexuality: new section
* ''people were admonished for not having seen it and not being "open-minded" to a "different" love story.'' Who was admonished? Who did the admonishing? Citation, please.
* ''people were admonished for not having seen it and not being "open-minded" to a "different" love story.'' Who was admonished? Who did the admonishing? Citation, please.
* ''In that respect, the advertising purposefully concealed the theme of homosexuality from the unsuspecting public, merely referring to it as a modern day "love story" and concentrating on the appealing rugged cowboy element and picturesque landscapes.'' Purposefully concealed? I think movie-goers were pretty clear on the content of the movie. I'd like to see a citation that there was an attempt to hide the content of the film.
* ''In that respect, the advertising purposefully concealed the theme of homosexuality from the unsuspecting public, merely referring to it as a modern day "love story" and concentrating on the appealing rugged cowboy element and picturesque landscapes.'' Purposefully concealed? I think movie-goers were pretty clear on the content of the movie. I'd like to see a citation that there was an attempt to hide the content of the film.
== "Concealed" theme of homosexuality ==
I have removed Foxtrot's comment that "the advertising purposefully concealed the theme of homosexuality from the unsuspecting public". Apart from anything else, this directly contradicts Foxtrot's comment further up this page that "you don't have to have seen the movie because it was so plastered around the country and overdiscussed by the MSM that you couldn't avoid finding out about it".
There was no attempt to conceal or downplay the homosexual subject matter of the film. It quickly gained an international reputation as 'that gay cowboy film' & gathered both its popularity & notoriety from that. I don't know of any evidence to suggest that many people watched this film without knowing the theme beforehand. The movie [http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/3690/poster1mm6.jpg poster] is hardly coy about it - notice the pose of the two guys & the words "Love is a Force of Nature". You might see this as "concentrating on the appealing rugged cowboy element", but I think that would be willfully naive. [[User:Sideways|Sideways]] 16:05, 7 October 2008 (EDT)