How would you explain Brokeback Mountain's broad appeal with members of straight society?
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1. Everyone likes a good love story.\n\n2. Makes for good conversation -- makes you sound progressive -- good for putting on airs. \n\n3. Curiousity.\n\n4. Leming Society -- Everyone else is doing it, I don't want to be left out.
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yeah... brokeback guys
1118679
I dont know but Brokeback Mountain was a good movie
469934
I think guys are extra sensitive about gay issues because they're insecure. As if just seeing the movie will make those around them doubt their sexuality. I thought it was a good movie and yes, it was weird at first, but after the shock (stemming from being sheltered by media) I got into the story & it was really sad, blah blah blah. And yes, why is it more common to see girl-on-girl themes in movies or on TV. Like on those dating shows where the guy asks two girls to kiss. A guy would never kiss another guy to prove to a girl how kinky he is. If there's nothing wrong with us doing it then why is it so different for them? If I kissed another girl for fun nobody would call me a lesbian. But if a guy even just went to see this movie his friends would call him gay. The world just sucks that way.
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Brokeback Mountain. It's great.
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Your avatars lookin a little Brokeback Mountain-ish lol your Q caught my eye cause I go to the gay club (with gay guy friends) fun isnt it? im not gay but I have a ball I love the guys there anyway yeah try some beers...cheer up...take someone with you maybe...
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So you like to hang around with Shallow Al or Hal or whatever the name of the nut was in the movie.\n\nWith most males in our coupling search, hormones rule.  Is she attractive?  Go for her.  After some point of satisfaction we start thinking with the head atop our shoulders instead.  Then other factors are considered (personality, feelings, dreams, etc.).  For a lot of guys with a lot physical desire driving them to the attraction, the issue is a willing body.  Getting to know the woman inside the body is somewhat an acquired taste and not all guys like the flavor.\n\nI heard a shrink once say, "To a man the price of sex is intimacy, and to a woman the price of intimacy is sex."  Some women bargain so cheaply that the guy never has to pay his part of the bargain.
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Pansy Division- I know they're gay men, but they're also for EVERYTHING liberal. And it's obscure so it makes me look cooler.:0)
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i loved that movie. i think there should be more guys who like plus size women and not those skinny women.
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A freaking "pretty boy?"  It's time to face the facts, son-- you may need to hike up Brokeback Mountain to be at home with your kind...
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Don't be afraid to ask such a question. How else will you learn? ...and ignore anyone who bites your head off for asking, because it's a question a lot of people raised in a mainstream heterosexual society have, and I'd rather they ask me and other non-heterosexuals than try to get answers from talk shows and bad movies.\n\nI've tried to explain this many different ways to heterosexuals, and here's the answer that seems to work best: \nWhen it comes to a relationship between two women, there is no such thing as "the man" or "a man" because the whole point OF the relationship is that it is between two WOMEN.\n\nI've been in several lesbian relationships and each has been a bit different, but in each, I have considered myself to be a woman who loves another women. \n\nNever have I been in a sexual relationship with a woman where \nshe was consistently more aggressive in bed with me--our relationships were about giving and receiving, about challenging traditional ideas about gender and power and the ideal body, and we usually took turns experimenting with what made us and our partner happy.\n\nNever have I been romantically involved with a woman who always wanted to play the feminine/passive role, with me always leading when we danced, being the one to pick her up for dates, etc. Rather, my relationships with women have involved us sharing equal power and responsibility, taking delight both in being the one to give flowers and the one to get flowers, the one to cook dinner and the one to be served a hot meal, etc.\n\nAlso, from what close friends who are gay and male tell me, its much the same for them. \n\nOf COURSE there are always walking stereotypes--gay men that will tell you they have always been a top/"the man," or the bottom/"the woman," but that's the same as it is with heterosexual traditionalists who worry about who "wears the pants in their relationship, thinking that a mother who works outside the home is setting a bad example for her children and that a man shouldn't cry or express deep emotions in public. \n\nIn general though, homosexuals challenge traditional ideas about gender. They aren't all walking stereotypes. They don't all lisp, have really short hair/nails, spend all their time at dance clubs, or spend any significant amount of time worrying about if they are too masculine/feminine, or not masculine/feminine enough.
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Depends on what you mean by conservative. I think that people in the USA still believe in free will, in the free market, in self-responsibility, and in people's right to pursue life, liberty and happiness. The fact that one movie, which has homosexual content, does well doesn't take away from that fact. The majority of people in the USA probably still find homosexuality to be uncomfortable, but most people are accepting of gay folks until their behavior becomes very public and intrusive.\n\nNow, people go to movies to be entertained. They know the content of movies before they go. People went to this movie because the reviews were positive. Most people like good stories and that is what Brokeback Mountain was--a good story. It wasn't made to "make a point" it was well-done, and it wasn't intrusive. That is what entertainment is about.
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If it has anything to do with Brokeback Mountain (there was a hint) then...LOL
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Rent Brokeback Mountain and after you watch it talk to you husband and see how he feels about the movie and then break the news to him gently, maybe he will surprise you.
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I would think those that are homophobic would stay away from homosexual movies. I could care less who loves who but I about die whenever I have to go to San Francisco with my mom who feels she has to make some noise when seeing any gay couple! No movie in the world will change her mind.
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The movie was based on a short story that appeared in the New Yorker magazine back in 1998 or 1999, some time around then.  It got a lot of attention because it was kind of a first for Hollywood.  It helps break the stereotype that rugged men (blue collar workers, ranch hands, etc.) aren't gay.  Hollywood and society has often depitcted gays as being highly effiminate, cross-dressers, people who talk with a lisp, or walk around with a bent wrist, and are into art, interior design, and fashion, etc.  In recent years, those stereotypes are slowly being changed in Hollywood--in tv and movies--and we are seeing gays portrayed in a variety of ways.  Yes, there are highly effiminate and strange gay people out there, but that is not a reflection of us all.  I am gay, but I don't exactly fit the stereotype.  I am a virgin by choice.  I do not go to gay bars or act effeminate.  I like watching auto racing, baseball, boxing, and tennis.  I do have an interest in interior design, but mainly from an architectural point of view (I can not stand froo-froo interiors with pinks and fluffy pillows with girly, flower prints).  The movie is also important in how it depicts what being gay in the late 1950's/early 60's was like.  The characters in the movie did not consider themselves gay and they went on and got married and had children.  That was life back then.  In some ways still, it is life for some now.  I know of someone who is forced by his dad to stay in the closet and get married.  His dad is famous in our city and has a well-known reputation for his business.  His 20-something year old son is gay, I had fallen in love with him, but his dad wants to keep him in the closet.  In fact, his dad threatened me.  The funny thing is that I am 100% positive that his dad is also gay, but the dad does not act on it.  Have you ever heard of "gaydar"?  His dad also overcompensates for a lot by running around with girls 30 years younger than him and driving Hummers, etc.  His dad grew up in a time when it was not acceptable to be gay and he got married twice and divorced twice and now tries to overcompensate for what I can tell is his gayness, and he tries to keep his adult gay son in the closet and having no contact with me.  \n\nThere are all kinds of people in this world.  There is diversity even within the "gay community."  Not all gays are girly or even whores for that matter.  Just as not all heterosexuals are all the same.  How many heterosexuals are seen in movies and on sitcoms sleeping around all the time.  Most of my heterosexual friends are good-looking, but they are virgins.  They are choosing to wait till they get married.  They are offended at times by what they see on tv and in film.  Not all black people are the same.  Hollywood once portrayed blacks as being simple minded people, placing them in small comedy roles.  Slowly that began to change with the advancement in the civil rights movement.  The same thing is going on in Hollywood with its portrayal of gays.  I am sorry this was a long answer.  I just lipped off in somebody else's question about how people were writing obnoxiously long answers.  I hope this clarified things a bit.  You don't have to like Brokeback Mountain, but at least try to understand why it is somewhat important.  I liked it, but I am actually glad that the Oscar for Best Picture went to Crash--I thought Crash was truly the better film.
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It is an excellent movie, but it is really really sad.  Basically it is all about not being able to reconcile parts of your identity, live in the way you want, or really let anyone in.  It's about love, but it also is about the ways people can hurt those whom they love (or who love him) by their own fear and inaction.  \n\nIt is an amazing movie, the acting is really great.  I wish it would have had some more sex in it, but for it to even be making this much money and be getting this many award nominations is more then I've come to expect from straight america.