Was It Good For The Gays: ‘Brokeback Mounta’ | Decir

Contents:

• 8 MOST REALISTIC GAY SEX SCEN
• 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA' AT 15: JAKE GYLLENHAAL ON HOW FILMG GAY ROMANCE 'WAS UNFORTABLE AT TIM BUT WE KNEW THE BIGGER PICTURE'
• JAKE GYLLENHAAL SAID THERE WAS A 'STIGMA' ATTACHED TO PLAYG A GAY MAN 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA'
• WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘BROKEBACK MOUNTA’
• THAT “GAY COWBOY MOVIE”QUEER PEOPLE REFLECT ON 15 YEARS OF “BROKEBACK MOUNTA”

8 MOST REALISTIC GAY SEX SCEN

Scene om Freier Fall, a German film about gay ps Marc and Kay. Queerty recently did a great roundup of the most realistic gay sex scen morn cema — verg everythg om Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger’s magil moment that tent on Brokeback Mounta to some newer offergs like Blue is the Warmt Color, which jt premiered Philly at the Philalphia Film, you’ll fd clips (when available) of all the selectns wh lks to where you n fd them on Netflix (when available. Wh such popular actors volved, even some of the more homophobic members of the early ghts dience were willg to shell out for movie tickets to see what this gay wboy movie was all about.

While the film would fally allow a lot of queer dience members to fally see a tenr and timate reprentatn of themselv a major motn picture, also received an unsurprisg luge of homophobic jok and sults. Much of the ments stemmed om the film's sex scen, which, while rather tame when viewed today, were some of the more graphic gay love scen that many dience members had been exposed to at that pot. For Ledger, he didn't thk of as a "gay" love scene, as many actors of that time surely would have.

'BROKEBACK MOUNTA' AT 15: JAKE GYLLENHAAL ON HOW FILMG GAY ROMANCE 'WAS UNFORTABLE AT TIM BUT WE KNEW THE BIGGER PICTURE'

Though was often far oversimplified as “the gay wboy movie, ” Brokeback Mounta nohels beme a worldwi phenomenon upon s release 15 years ago today.

Its $178 ln box office hl proved dienc thirsted to see gay stori reprented on the big screen. ”Brokeback Mounta is currently streamg on more on Yahoo Entertament:'A Nightmare on Elm Street 2' at 35: Robert Englund addrs homoerotic subtext of 'the gayt horror movie ever ma'MVP of Horror: Jon Abrahams looks back at notor 'Sry Movie' sex scene, reveals extra-rnchy moment that was snipped'Mallrats' at 25: Kev Smh on trashg his own movie, why he passed on Ree Wherspoon and the extra-rnchy scene he was forced to cut. The tragic love story of Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Brokeback Mounta" has been ptivatg viewers — gay and straight alike — sce the film me out 2005.

Has she jt told this paful story so many tim that she's grown numb to , or is actually fictn, signed to ver up the embarrassg circumstanc of Jack's ath — nnected to his homosexualy, maybe? Though Ennis and Jack never ll themselv "gay" or "queer, " they do love each other and share a sexual relatnship. "However, the directors warned uld lose 's stat as the ultimate gay movie as queer cema evolv and the film dtry starts to embrace LGBT reprentatn Insir's homepage for more stori.

JAKE GYLLENHAAL SAID THERE WAS A 'STIGMA' ATTACHED TO PLAYG A GAY MAN 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA'

We've had the first-ever mastream LGBT rom- "Love, Simon, " cultural juggernts like "Call Me By Your Name" and "Carol, " about three Disney movi featurg Disney's "first-ever" LGBTQ character ("Bety and the Beast, " "Onward, " and "Zootopia"), and "Moonlight, " which did what "Brokeback Mounta" uldn't and beme the first-ever queer movie to w bt picture at the Amy "Brokeback Mounta" is still viewed as the go-to gay movie.

It has a Rotten Tomato sre of 87%, and most crics were enamoured wh the movie the moment first h Calhoun, wrg for Time Out, said: "Lee has taken a story of gay love and placed where should be — the mastream. "Strikg a siar was Roger Ebert, wrg for the Chigo Sun-Tim: "'Brokeback Mounta' has been scribed as 'a gay wboy movie, ' which is a cel simplifitn. "Brokeback Mounta" straddl this le expertly, prentg their leadg queer characters and their forbidn love wh so much sympathy that turns to are gay, and while most dience members may not unrstand exactly what is like to love someone, and be somethg, that is emed so taboo uld lead you to tastrophe, or, "Brokeback Mounta's" se, ath, Lee's movie picts forbidn love, somethg a lot of people know of, so expertly and touchgly that 's hard not to get sucked to rg thoroughly about the characters — whether you're gay or Lee is rponsible for that.

The gay nversn mp drama "Boy Erased, " while ably acted by s st (particularly Lus Hedg), almost seems sred of the subject matter.

WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘BROKEBACK MOUNTA’

It felt tailored to straight dienc, whereas "Brokeback Mounta, " while not exactly tailored to queer dienc the way that a morn TV show like "Pose" is, is so direct s pictn of queer love and the dangers of beg gay that feels absolutely Johnson, the queer director of Netflix's "Alex Strangelove" spoke to Insir about the impact that Lee's movie had on him as a viewer as well as a filmmaker. "I me out as gay durg the time 'Brokeback Mounta' me out, so cid wh this time of me feelg like I uldn't live a lie anymore and wantg to fally embrace fully who I am, " Johnson told Insir.

But also those feelgs of like 'if you're gay, you're gay. "I remember before me out, I was nervo, and people were jokg about 'oh, 's the gay wboy movie. Jam Wilby, who starred as one half of an inic gay uple himself Jam Ivory's 1987 masterpiece "Mrice, " told Insir that he was "irrated" by the movie spe also thkg was "remarkable.

THAT “GAY COWBOY MOVIE”QUEER PEOPLE REFLECT ON 15 YEARS OF “BROKEBACK MOUNTA”

"In "Mrice, " Hugh Grant's Clive reprs his sexualy and liv life as a straight man, whereas Wilby's tular character embrac his inty as a gay man Edwardian England. "I thought the way that Jam Ivory handled Clive's transn om, if you want to ll him or gay or if you want to ll him somethg oteric, to beg straight was better [than 'Brokeback'], " Wilby told Insir. Of urse, 's themselv that they actually hate bee of their reprsed homosexualy, so anger is an unrstandable rponse those circumstanc.

We serve Disney-like happy endgs'"Philalphia" follows a gay man wh HIV (Tom Hanks) tryg to sue his former pany for wrongful dismissal.

"A Sgle Man" follows a gay man (Col Firth) preparg for suici followg the ath of his boyiend. It's also full of tense passn, and the love scen let s queer characters enjoy beg gay.