Brokeback Mountaineers
Just saw the last few minutes of the Academy Awards and Taiwan-born Ang Lee was saying something about the “gay men and women” who couldn’t express love or whatnot because of society of something like that. Interesting observation; Ang Lee is straight and married with two kids. Screen writers Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry aren’t gay or at least openly so. The original author, Edna Annie Proulx, is openly straight having married three times.
The two main characters were played by Jake Gyllenhaal (straight) and Heath Ledger (really hot, straight… at least publicly so). The original short story itself is a work of fiction by E. Annie Proulx. So none of the main people behind this film is gay, no less being in a gay relationship portrayed in the film. How accurate then is their portrayal of gay love when none of them experienced it?
Good question. Then again what movie can accurately depict ANY type of love, gay or straigtht, when there are so much variations in the way that love is expressed?
Comment by rac — 11 March, 2006 @ 6:51 am