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Brokeback Mountain A Success Of Biblical Proportions
Editorial-
A mediocre movie captures your attention for perhaps a few brief moments. A good one lures you to the edge of your seat in anticipation of the next action scene or plot twist. However, a true cinematic masterpiece grabs you by your bootstraps, spins you around and pulls you effortlessly into the magical world on-screen. Broke Back Mountain is a textbook example of this last type of film.
It is not merely that this film is a cinematic triumph both visually and audibly. It is. It is not a question of whether gay cowboys have replaced the passe, too-macho-for-words John Wayne-Clint Eastwood stereotype of the Western icons. They have. It is something more.
It is the superb casting. It is the epic setting. It is the acting. This is a film so powerful it is though the Gods descended from Mount Olympus to bestow their blessings upon it.
Behold one small example of the simple brilliance within this film (taken from the already famous “Snake-bit Again” scene).
“Dangedest thing I ever seen Jack. Another snakebite just below my belt buckle! Must have happened while I was sleeping by the campfire. Be a pal and help me get the venom out will ya?”
“Again? Well if that don’t beat all Ennis! What’s that make now? Thirteen bites this week? All on the same spot! Hot damn you are one unlucky sumbitch!”
“Unlucky don’t begin to describe it Jack. Those phallus-rattlers are plum crafty critters. I barely felt a thing. I best treat you too so as to be sure you ain’t bit as well.”
“I reckon that’s a good idea. You cain’t never be too safe.”
Powerful words indeed. It is transcendent dialogue such as this, along with divine directing and fabulous costumes, that will surely catapult Broke Back Mountain into it’s rightful place in the pantheon of film lore.
Note: If you like the original be sure to look for the sequel, Sticky Back Gulch, due in theaters this coming summer.
Thanks to OTB, Point 5 & Wizbang!
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Broken Crack Mountain.
That’s it, I’m writing a film about straight hairdressers. A little taste of their own medicine!
Nithings sacred to the scumbags in hollywood they would made a nude version of SNOWHITE AND THE SEVEN DAWARVES if you let them
with the new soundtrack by Willie Nelson:
“Cowboys, don’t let your boys grow up to be Mamas.”