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Talk:Brokeback Mountain (view source)
Revision as of 23:50, October 8, 2008
, 23:50, October 8, 2008→"Concealed" theme of homosexuality
:The theme was concealed from regular advertising and, yes, there were many people who did not know the theme of the movie apart from 'a love story'. Not everyone is in 'the know' with water cooler skuttlebutt. I personally know more than one person who an expressed an interest in the movie that was shocked when I told them it was a film about a gay cowboys. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 13:53, 8 October 2008 (EDT)
:The theme was concealed from regular advertising and, yes, there were many people who did not know the theme of the movie apart from 'a love story'. Not everyone is in 'the know' with water cooler skuttlebutt. I personally know more than one person who an expressed an interest in the movie that was shocked when I told them it was a film about a gay cowboys. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 13:53, 8 October 2008 (EDT)
::Yes, the distinction that must be made is between the actual advertising for the film versus the media chatter about the "gay cowboy movie". The advertising featured a somber picture of the two lead actors looking down and not even facing each other, let alone looking at each other (which would be more suggestive that there was romance between them). Furthermore, the short synopsis on Apple's trailer site<ref>http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/brokeback_mountain/</ref> which probably has not been updated in years, describes the film as:
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Set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, the film tells the story of two young men - a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy - who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love.
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::Lifelong connection??? That sounds more like a profound friendship, like you'd get in ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' or ''Rain Man''. It's only after you have that idea planted in your head that they mention love, but that could easily be the kind of brotherly love you get from camraderie (e.g. in the military, on a sports team, etc). You even have liberals describing people who were shocked in the movie theater when the homosexuality became apparent<ref>http://hughesforamerica.typepad.com/hughes_for_america/2006/01/on_brokeback_mo.html</ref> (and this liberal then goes on to call the people immature, hecklers, etc): "One woman behind us exclaimed, "Thanks for preparing me for that," as though she had been completely ignorant of the storyline." So if people ended up in the theater without knowing what it was about, as this woman did and as did the friend of Learn Together, then I think there was indeed some concealment of the gay content by the advertising. -[[User:Foxtrot|Foxtrot]] 19:50, 8 October 2008 (EDT)
==Name recognition of the actors==
==Name recognition of the actors==