Love among the sheep at Cannes
By Aussiegirl
With all those sheep why were they lonesome? Somehow I think I'll be giving this movie a miss. And I'm not even touching on "lonesome men and bucking broncos" -- although I'm sorely tempted to think that the adjectives have been inadvertantly interchanged -- ahem.
Ang Lee's gay love story wins top prize in Venice
"Brokeback Mountain," starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, bested 19 other candidates, including the favorite, "Good Night, and Good Luck," George Clooney's black and white movie set in the McCarthy era in the early 1950s in America.
Receiving the Golden Lion award on Saturday night, Lee, a Taiwan native, described "Brokeback Mountain" as a story of love against adversity. Independent and low-budget, like several U.S. entries at the festival, it was filmed in Canada to save money.
"After two big movies, I decided to make a small movie that really moved me," said Lee, who also made "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Hulk," "The Ice Storm" and "Sense and Sensibility."
Based on a novella by Annie Proulx, "Brokeback Mountain" has sweeping vistas, lonesome men, bucking broncos and smoldering campfires. It also has sex scenes between two men whose lives are changed, disturbed and entwined after they are hired to tend sheep for a summer in Wyoming.
posted by Aussiegirl @ 1:54 PM
1 Comments:
Whenever I see the term "McCarthy Era," I can usually figure out the orientation of the writer.
Most of what we think we know, that is, most of what is promulgated as "facts" of that period, is just plain not true.
Turner Classic Movie channel, for example, will show scenes of people protesting the "witch-hunts" in Hollywood, then juxtapose a photo of Sen. McCarthy.
Sorry, non- or anti-historians at TCM, but McCarthy came along some years after the investigation in Hollywood.
By the way, "Hollywood Party" is the best book I know of regarding attempted Red control, or at least influence, of the movie industry.
Anyway, McCarthy's motives and motivations are now unknown. No one can read the mind of another.
He might well have been sincere, which is never considered by the leftists in the "news" media or academia; or he might have been a dishonest demagogue. There have been such in the U.S. Senate, including his allies from Massachusetts, the Kennedys.
But what is fact is this: Most if not all the people targeted or suspected by the anti-communists have prospered; McCarthy himself is a name covered with vitriol and used as a shameful adjective.
Consider this: An actor in a TV series about a motorcycling nomad named Bronson was fawned over and nearly worshiped by the "news" media; he was called "the new James Dean," and the critics and "intellectuals" just swooned at thought of him.
In 1972, at the height of his fame and glory, he said in an interview in TV Guide that George Wallace had some good qualities.
Since then, have you ever heard of Michael Parks?
Disappeared.
Like someone had flicked a switch.
Like, in fact, McCarthy, like the House Committee on Unamerican Activities, usually called by leftists House Unamerican Activities Committee.
Despite their evident success, the leftists still get mileage out of claiming they have been suppressed.
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