Fun Stuff > ENJOY
Brokeback Mountain
BillAdama:
Brokeback Mountain is a very good movie, but I think it got a little over-hyped because it's about the second biggest hot-button political issue in America right now.
And like everything that gets over-hyped, it became over-bashed.
I see the movie as not just about romantic love, but about balancing what you know you really want with what society tells you you're allowed to have and allowed to do. The big tragedy of the picture being that what's his name wasn't willing to make that final sacrifice of becoming what society hates, even though he wished he could.
öde:
dusktodarkness do not give up your day job to become a film critic.
TheFuriousWombat:
--- Quote from: Tergon on 10 May 2006, 18:34 ---It's the "forbidden love" cliche that has already been done to death.
Shakespeare did it better in Romeo & Juliet, and literally thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of writers, have done it since.
--- End quote ---
This is nitpicky but as a possible classics major I gotta point out that you're giving the bard way to much credit. romeo and juliet is the story of pyramus and thisbe, written around 8 B.C. (R&J was printed first in 1597). The story is essentially the same and no, it's not just a coincidence. this, however, backs up your point. People have been doing the cliched forbidden love story for literally thousands of years. it's been done to death and i for agree that this movie is only as lauded as it is b/c of the nature of the romance. make it a traditional relationship and you have a wellshot chick flick.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: dusktodarkness on 01 Feb 2007, 23:34 ---words
--- End quote ---
I am unsure about whether or not this post is real.
dusktodarkness:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 03 Feb 2007, 09:57 ---
--- Quote from: dusktodarkness on 01 Feb 2007, 23:34 ---words
--- End quote ---
conflicting words
--- End quote ---
You may pretend it so. But you would be lying.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version