5 Unforgettable Moments from Brokeback Mountain

[+ Avalon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXUqzqxXjJ4

 

Imo this movie should have won Oscars all around!

[+ nycman]

I agree. Few things have ever moved me as much as this movie did.

 

Epic and stunningly beautiful on so many levels.

[+ Hoover42]

That scene in Jack's bedroom where Ennis finds his missing shirt was my favorite scene in the whole movie.

Edited August 20, 2018 by Hoover42

[Kenny]

That scene in the in Jack's bedroom where Ennis finds his missing shirt was my favorite scene in the whole movie.

Yes. The tragedy of the closet, pictured.

[+ E.T.Bass]

That scene in Jack's bedroom where Ennis finds his missing shirt was my favorite scene in the whole movie.

All the scenes afterwards, at Jack's ranch, are what I remember the most.

[LoveNDino]

Imo this movie should have won Oscars all around!

Especially since a totally undeserving movie - Crash - won it that year.

[+ azdr0710]

well, I'm going to be an "anti" on Brokeback Mountain.....the movie was perfectly produced and directed, well-acted with a restrained script, and the music and scenery were, of course, legendary, but the plot was as far from original as a movie could get - a tragic love story - something that's been done a million times......Crash was as contrived and forced as could be, but I guess the "Academy" wanted something more meaningful that year......

[LoveNDino]

...but I guess the "Academy" wanted something more meaningful that year......

Well, them fighting words!

[+ E.T.Bass]

A love story between men was pretty damn original.

So many people did not understand a man can get his fucking heart broken by another man.

How fortunate that Ang Le and everyone else put their talents behind Annie Proulx's award winning story.

 

Th Oscars will have to bear that blemish forever.

[N13]

 

That is one of the most naive statements I have ever seen. It was voted in because of homophobia plain and simple!

[Kenny]

the plot was as far from original as a movie could get - a tragic love story - something that's been done a million times..

Actually, the subject of the film is the closet. I don’t believe that’s a story that had been done even once before, never mind a million times.

[+ azdr0710]

Well, them fighting words!

 

A love story between men was pretty damn original.

So many people did not understand a man can get his fucking heart broken by another man.

How fortunate that Ang Le and everyone else put their talents behind Annie Proulx's award winning story.

 

Th Oscars will have to bear that blemish forever.

 

That is one of the most naive statements I have ever seen. It was voted in because of homophobia plain and simple!

 

Actually, the subject of the film is the closet. I don’t believe that’s a story that had been done even once before, never mind a million times.

 

I knew I'd get flamed for my comments and I certainly understand your rebuttals......the story is still nothing more than a classic tragic love story - except it was between two men......that the movie is also about "the closet" is self-evident, but I don't think the closet and a love story merit Best Picture recognition (and there really was little else to the movie).......nothing groundbreaking was exposed in the movie (same-sex love, the closet, tragic love stories, sexual identity angst have existed for centuries).......yes, this was a mainstream same-sex love story and that was entirely new, but this particular movie was not utterly original or clever in its telling.......

 

Crash was certainly no better........highly contrived and a forced, socially-sensitive plot......many observers that year lamented the entirely lackluster lineup for Best Picture

 

melodramatic statements like "the Oscars will have to bear that blemish forever" and "that is one of the most naive statements I have ever seen" tend to confirm the hysteria when cooler heads should prevail.....

 

I certainly wish it had won, but it just wasn't that original......Crash has often been mentioned as one of the worst "Best Picture" winners

 

https://www.today.com/popculture/how-did-brokeback-mountain-lose-wbna11701755

 

I realize there are many pro- and con-articles all over the 'net......I picked this one

Edited August 21, 2018 by azdr0710

[Kenny]

that the movie is also about "the closet" is self-evident,

If “the closet” is so self-evident as the movie’s theme, it is certainly odd that it is almost never mentioned as the movie’s theme.

 

Instead “Brokeback” is falsely claimed to be a conventional love story — hetero in the guise of homo. Nope.

 

Both narratively and visually, “Brokeback Mountain” is a tragedy about the specifically gay phenomenon of the “closet” — about the disastrous emotional and moral consequences of erotic self-repression and of the social intolerance that first causes and then exacerbates it. If Jack and Ennis are tainted, it’s not because they’re gay, but because they pretend not to be; it’s the lie that poisons everyone they touch.

[+ E.T.Bass]

"You know friend, this is a God damn bitch of an unsatisfactory situation."

[YOUNG_LA_DOM]

“Don’t try to fool me anymore I know what that means

Jack Twist = Jack Nasty”