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

Contents:

• 8 MOST REALISTIC GAY SEX SCEN
• WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘BROKEBACK MOUNTA’
• 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA' AT 15: JAKE GYLLENHAAL ON HOW FILMG GAY ROMANCE 'WAS UNFORTABLE AT TIM BUT WE KNEW THE BIGGER PICTURE'
• WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘BROKEBACK MOUNTA’
• 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA' AT 15: JAKE GYLLENHAAL ON HOW FILMG GAY ROMANCE 'WAS UNFORTABLE AT TIM BUT WE KNEW THE BIGGER PICTURE'

8 MOST REALISTIC GAY SEX SCEN

It’s hard to believe but 15 years have passed sce the inic gay film Brokeback Mounta was released.

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. In this regular lumn, we’ll look at pictns of queers cema and ask, Was It Good For The Gays?

G Van Sant had tried to direct (he pched to Matt Damon, who turned down bee he had already played a gay man and a wboy before and didn’t want to do both aga); Mark Wahlberg was once nsired for the lead, but he turned down bee, duh, ’s about gay guys. Conservative groups issued boytts of the film, polil punds acced of phg a gay agenda, and notorly lost the Amy Award for Bt Picture to Crash; many crics acced Amy voters of homophobia, as the film was the bt-reviewed release of the year, and, spe the Osr loss, was also the year’s most honored film. And, as most gay dramas, has an unhappy endg: Twist di, likely murred for beg gay.

WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘BROKEBACK MOUNTA’

It’s fluence on popular culture nnot be nied, for better or for worse — ne years later, people are still makg gay wboy jok. The Pros: In terms of basic visibily, Brokeback Mounta was a huge w for the gays.

) And what better way to stoke the classic homophobic fire by makg wboys (OK, technilly they’re “ranch hands, ” but, you know, they’re wboys) — the most classic image of good old Amerin masculy — a ltle queer?

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

But is there anythg one uld actually suggt wasn’t good for the gays Brokeback Mounta? You uld make an argument that do ph a “gay agenda” as all of those nservative talkg heads suggted.

After all, prents the gay experience as somethg that is normal and ordary; the only extraordary thg about , fact, is that there are people out there so disgted by the ia of men havg sex wh other men that they take their homophobia to such extrem — eher issug verbal or physil asslts on those they have emed unsirable bee of their own private sexual practic. I will say, however, that ’d be nice to see a film that teach lsons about tolerance and empathy but did not also require vlent imagery which a gay man is the victim. …although maybe Anne Hathaway’s hair is the proof that a gay man did work on this film, and he had an amazg sense of humor?

Then aga, Anna Faris’ wig is downright atroc and that gay man should have been fired for that hairle. And the one gay sex scene was dimly l and fully clothed, while Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway both appeared topls.

WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘BROKEBACK MOUNTA’

It’s a movie about gay people livered through the lens of straight people, and the straight gaze here is very thick. Then aga, ’s probably valuable for people to see and unrstand the “normalcy, ” whatever that means (however they fe , I gus), of the gay experience. It’s a betifully filmed, stunngly acted tear-jerker, and ultimately do more good than harm, bee sometim I fet, until I do silly thgs like read the Netflix er reviews of this perfectly fe, tolerable, and harmls film, that there are people out there who believe credibly stupid and tolerable thgs about gay people and I am so grateful that I don’t have to al wh them my personal life:.

In s famo tent scene, a man lled Jack sneers that Matthew was not gay, the film brought homophobia to the foreont of our culture. 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.

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

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. A man tells another man a story about a young man who was acced of beg a homosexual.

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