You couldn’t make Brokeback Mountain today. Some Hollywood studio would be like “hey you can’t make Brokeback Mountain, we own the rights to that.”
Wow has it really been 20 years? I feel old.
I remember when it first came out and everyone acted like it was a dirty movie. But it’s still one of the best romance movies I’ve ever seen.
That phone call screen between Anne Hathaway and Heath Ledger was so good.
Also RIP Heath Ledger.
As a kid of around 10 when the movie came out, observing the circus around this movie passively from Europe was the first encounter with homophobia that I was ever somewhat aware of. I had grown up being told by adults that people are free to love whoever they want, and I never really saw any reason to doubt that premise. Watching the entire adultsphere have a complete meltdown over two cowboys kissing or something was deeply confusing.
Similarly to The Crying Game which Brokeback Mountain is closer to than it is to today.
After July 24, 2025, the release of Brokeback Mountain will have been closer to the Chernobyl disaster
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Secreto en la Montaña, as it was screened in Mexico City. When they’d end a long, nearly wordless scene with a “mm-hmm” couched in subtle nuance and deep, bittersweet meaning, the translation would just be “Si.” It was very entertaining. Hard to not crack up. Thankfully, the theater was mostly empty.
We also noticed a great foreign language version of Social Network at the Costco in Cuernavaca on that trip.
In classic Spanish fashion, our title for Brokeback Mountain was: Brokeback Mountain: En terreno vedado because we can’t have simple titles like in hispanoamérica
Separated by a common language. :(
They just ate pudding.
You don’t have to say cowboys are gay, it’s redundant
