and if it's quite all right

[tsubame]

Was clicking around CNN this evening, as is my wont, and I found among the various depressing articles on Hurricane Katrina (perhaps the most depressing was the fact that Bush's approval ratings were higher than I expected. Great gods, what is it going to take before people realize? That and the attempts to mend his lousy hurricane-related public image, which had my torn between laughing and crying . . .), this article on a soon-to-be-released movie (soonish, anyway) called Brokeback Mountain.

This is particularly amusing to me because the director is Ang Lee, who is most famous for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but who also directed many other movies. The above, which is sadly becoming known as "the gay cowboy movie," is hardly a departure from his previous work, as anyone who's seen the Wedding Banquet would know.

I saw the Wedding Banquet back in my Asian film class last year. My professor had a strange fascination with showing us films featuring gay men, for reasons I was never exactly clear on. By the time we finished watching exerpts from Happy Together (said excerpts chosen by said professor and featuring several fairly explicit sex scenes), I turned to my friend and asked, "um, so, are we likely to find the professor at Chumley's on a Friday night?"

Her: "Um, actually, he's married. I've met his wife."

Me: "Well, I guess it's good that he has such an open mind, then."

Chumley's was my university's closest gay bar, in case you were wondering. Maybe that professor's just very comfortable with his heterosexuality . . .

A cookie to anyone who gets the joke.

Gyllenhaal, one of the leads, has a really sweet quote in the article, too.

Anyway, I want to see Brokeback Mountain now. Hopefully it'll still be playing when I come home around Christmas. Hey, vash_donutangel, want to go see it with me? Since we've already started a tradition of watching the Gay Channel until the early hours of the morning (oh gods . . . no more Erasure for at least five years, I think I still have mental scars . . .). Maybe you and I and Emm can make a Naninani Yakuza night of it, hm? Complete with Ben & Jerry's. In December!

Comments

[daharmaster.livejournal.com]

I think I get a cookie. ^_^

You are coming home for Christmas? For how long? Is there a chance I could steal you away for an afternoon/evening/few minutes at some point during it, or is all your time already scheduled for family etc. consumption?

day and night

[grey-damaskena.livejournal.com]

At least for a few days, maybe a week and a half. Depends on how much nenkyu I decide to take.

Um, sorry. Nenkyu is paid vacation. I don't have the option of unpaid vacation, either, so I have to be careful with it.

[cat-bot.livejournal.com]

I'm definitely looking forward to seeing you again after all of this time!

And oh man, Michelle and I were totally convinced he was gay.

now when I

[grey-damaskena.livejournal.com]

I'm not certain if I'm going to make it out to Penn State, though . . . I'll only have a week or so . . . hm, Penn State will be out on winter break anyway. Where do you live when you're not Penn State-bound, anyway?

Re: now when I

[cat-bot.livejournal.com]

Aaah, I wasn't thinking about specific American locations! Oops. I live over in Park Crest Terrace, behind Giant. I lived there two years ago... you visited back then, didn't you? We moved back ^^
Maybe there is some way I could come out to your neck of the woods or something. Who knows!

[lucifermourning.livejournal.com]

they're making a movie of "brokeback mountain"?
::bounces::
by the way--hunt down the story and read it.
it is damn fine.

harmony harmony

[grey-damaskena.livejournal.com]

Small problem with the living in a foreign country where they don't speak English so much . . . um . . . unless I can find the text of the story online somewhere, I'll have to buy the book from Amazon or something . . . which I'd prefer to avoid . . .

there will be no

[(Anonymous)]

And they're not 'making' a movie of it, they've 'made' a movie of it. It got the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, huzzah!

Re: harmony harmony

[lucifermourning.livejournal.com]

the amazon entry seems to have the full text of the story.

http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0684852225/reviews/702-5938859-1500866

[apis-cerana.livejournal.com]

*TOTAL SQUEE*


OMG DECEMBER?!!!!!!!!!!!!!??!?!?!??!???????????????????????!?!?!??!?!?!?!? You're coming home?!?!?!??!


Oh my gods, you just made me keyboard-mash on my friend's IM window!!!!!! O___O OF COURSE I'LL GO. I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THAT <*cuts the caps lock*> movie to come out for AGES. :D!!!!!!!!!

I CAN'T WAIT.

AND BEN AND JERRYS YEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

GAY CHANNEL YEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY



(*FREAKOUT*)

[apis-cerana.livejournal.com]

AND OMG I GET THE JOKE :O



*Is incredibly annoying, so I'll STOP* Talk to you on Skype! :DDDD

*waves small flag of tribute to CNN in the form of Andypants*

[apis-cerana.livejournal.com]

AND he's a tribute to the gayness ;D

*Stops for reals*