Brokeback Mountain, gay love can change the history of Hi I'm trying
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Thursday December 15, 2005
Ang Lee's film was premiered in Los Angeles and nominated for seven Golden Globes
* Winning the sympathy of conventional groups and move them, one of the expectations
* trust that will more realistic relationship between two men for thousands of Americans
JOHN WALSH THE INDEPENDENT
How much you crave seeing on-screen sexual encounter between Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain? Will it make you uncomfortable, transgressive, wading into the dangerous waters of the other sex? If the actors were famous homosexuals in the "real life", would you feel more happy to see them, as their function, sitting in the chair, would be a hassle voyeurism? But as the two are famous heterosexual, is the appeal of seeing them cuddling in the dark with the naked bodies discreetly in the shadows, lies in convincing their performance, or to ask whether the boundaries between the two types of sexuality in their own lives are more blurred than you think?
Whatever the reason, same-sex relationships are a hot topic in the cinema. While the tapes ever took seriously gay and lesbian issues were limited to the halls of European art (the work of Pasolini, Fassbinder, Jarman) or terrible second-rate American films today such narratives take over the commercial cinema. Brokeback Mountain, which is about two Wyoming ranchers who fall in love in 1962 and live a secret affair while women marry, procreate children and divorce over 30 years, received the award for best film Critics Association in Los Angeles, and its creator Ang Lee, won the best director. Also, just to be nominated for seven Golden Globes
other hand, Philip Seymour Hoffman was named best actor for his portrayal of Truman Capote, the exquisite Louisiana, in the film Capote. There is much anticipation for other roles of gays represented by heterosexuals: Breakfast on Pluto, taken from the novel by Patrick McCabe, Cillian Murphy leads as a transvestite in Northern Ireland, The Dying Gaul presents Peter Sarsgaard in the role of a gay writer in theater, and highly praised the Transamerica Felicity Huffman plays a man who undergoes surgery transgender.
The importance of Brokeback Mountain lies not in his controversial and explicit sex scenes, but the central relationship with his deceptions and trauma, is presented to conventional public expectation that sympathize with it. "Will touch anyone who is open to seeing the challenges and difficulties of what at the time, and even today for many is the necessity imposed by self and society to live with dishonesty," said Neil Giuliano, president of Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, which monitors the way in which relations between persons of the same sex are presented in the media and received by the public.
right Viewpoint
Not everyone shares his enthusiasm. In the news Good Morning America, the right-wing critic Michael Medved said: "It will be a very difficult movie to sell. For most American men who are not gay, there is a disgust factor."
Really? The history of cinema is full of same-sex encounters, if they do not involve exchange of body fluids are sticky both male flirting. As Stephen Boyd and Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur (with a screenplay by Gore Vidal, who then laughed at the naivety of Heston at the things that made you say). Or the interplay between Montgomery Clift and John Ireland in the Red River, and two young gunmen who lend their guns handle of mother of pearl to fondle (and shoot) and change the subject every time a woman enters the conversation.
British films in homosexuality was anathema, but the mannerisms was acceptable. But it was the British film Victim which set a precedent for more serious consideration of homosexuality at a time (1961) in that being openly gay could lead to prison. I took the starring role Borgarde Dirk, who had the courage to shed their usual characterization of a super romantic heterosexual to represent a gay lawyer blackmailed by a lover who commits suicide. When the police arrive, Bogarde choose to tell the truth and face the consequences. It was an extraordinary film for two scenes: a lawyer tells his wife the details of homosexual desire and wished (¡...! She wanted a man wants a woman! ") With a wave of unprecedented violence. On the other presents a stylish gay club drinking sherry and talking in whispers of "those who are like us," a sort of freemasonry in a tux. His insistence that there were many same everywhere provided a service to gay community, though its director, Basil Dearden, was a bit homophobic and called gays "sexual invested.
The comic, best received
In the course of years, cutting the ribbons gay comic (Flamingos, La Cage aux Folles, Victor / Victoria, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) have had better reception from the public which foregrounds homosexual relationships. In the 60 and 70, the latter tended to be grossly sarcastic and hateful towards the characters themselves (The Boys in the Band, Cruising, Dog Day Afternoon, The ladder-with Rex Harrison and Richard Burton as two gay hairdressers of Brixton.)
In 1993, there was a breakthrough with Philadelphia, a major production on AIDS that featured a Hollywood star, Tom Hanks, as Andrew Beckett infected, which appealed the general public to examine the issues surrounding the disease without requiring special sympathy for the main character's problem. Raised $ 77 million in the U.S. and attracted the attention of the directors of studies into the newfound lack of homophobia in a large public sector in the country. Rights activists have invoked Philadelphia gays, as the film that broke down barriers, and hope that Brokeback Mountain do too.
components Some recent films have not done much gay favor gay rights. In American Beauty, Lester Burnham (played by Kevin Spacey) is shot in the head because he rejects the proposals of neighbor, a retired U.S. Army colonel-punishment for not accepting alarming flirtation, "while the projection on top of sexuality conquering the world of Colin Farrell in Alexander, Oliver Stone epic, was welcomed by most critics with derision and accusations of vulgarity.
remains to be seen if Brokeback Mountain failed to end 45 years of stereotypes, or whether U.S. theaters will be filled with Arizona jeans smelling of leather and ranchers face of hard Utah man wiping a tear when Jack enters Ennis for the first time. But ultimately forcing ordinary Americans to take a fresh look at their prejudices on sexual orientation and human love. "I'm sure that for the first time, will make real the love between two men for tens of thousands of Americans," said Matt Foreman, National Working Group Gay and Lesbian America. "Making people do not understand nor condone marriage (same sex) come to support involves a series of small steps ... not many, but two or three. I think Brokeback Mountain is one of them." © The Independent
Translation: Jorge Anaya
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