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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,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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!
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!
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