Brokeback Backlash From the Right For Movie Industry?
by Last Night in Little Rock
With Brokeback Mountain winning the Golden Globe for Best Drama, it is "a solid front-runner for the Academy Awards, whose nominations come out Jan. 31, with the Oscars handed out March 5," according to CNN. The Golden Globes always have been a strong indicator of the Academy Award winners.
The fact that "Brokeback Mountain" has found eager audiences across the country, including the conservative heartland, shows that Americans are willing to embrace stories of love in all forms, [Director Ang] Lee said.
Before that, one can predict that the Right will again attack the movie industry for its values, centering on the fact that it is a "love story" that happens to involves (horrors) men.
Moral values? Whose moral values imposed on whom?
The movie and television industry regretfully puts out so much crap that isn't worth watching, finding a good movie so you don't waste two hours can be a rare find. Some will attack anything that they would not watch. (Apparently they did; they counted the profanities.) Unless one has been living in a cave for the last three months, it hard to imagine somebody walking into this movie not knowing exactly what it is. We all knew what Passion of the Christ was about, and the title doesn't exactly give it all away.
Don't we all want a movie that appeals to adult themes and adult issues and life? One reason why the movie industry's gross is down this year is because it does not give the people movies worth watching, except marvelous movies like this one and a few others this year.
Box office should be the only thing the movie industry is responsible to, because that is a true indicator of what the people want. And, no, Rev. Robertson, "acceptance of homosexuality could result in hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, terrorist bombs and 'possibly a meteor'" will not rain down on is because of that. For other reasons, maybe; but not because of that.
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