yeah in the beginning when they got it on in the tent, i mean did they just decide to become gay or what? and later turn off gay mode to score chicks? and seeing each other automactically reactivates the mode?
hehe pretty much, takes up way too much time, and if i start, i wont rest until i finish, and since school started, thats a big nono for me.
I think just being with each other with no women made it happen. It was odd, they were the two manliest gay dudes I have ever seen. Best line, "I wish I knew how to quit you."
I've think there are two ways of looking at it. One is that they're both 100% gay, but they got married because of they couldn't admit to themselves that this was true. Being gay was a death sentence, so they lived in denial. The other way of looking at it is that their sexuality was just ambiguous. This is possible, though I think there's a stronger argument here for the poor cowboy than the rich one. I don't think I buy the "when in Rome" perspective, but it's a reasonable argument. My question, as a straight guy, was anybody else surpised how un-gay the supposedly gayest movie ever was? The only uncomfortable scene for me was the tent scene and it was over fairly quickly.
******************SPOILERS******************* The cowboys are GAY ******************SPOILERS*******************
I had someone come up to me in the office Friday saying that he had heard through the grapevine that I had seen it. I said I had and it was the best movie I'd seen all last year. Terribly heartbreaking.
Ever hear the theory of percentages? The common conception is that we're all either 100 percent gay or straight. Most of the bisexual people I know are not 50-50. (I'm an opera singer, I know tons of gay and bi people.) Most people who date either gender have a preference for one, but will date the other if the right one comes along. A majority of the girls I've dated have some interest in girls, but their majority percentage is for guys. My roomate, for example, likes girls, but only occasionally, and only for sex. She would never want a relationship with a girl. I had friend in college, a guy who made out with a few other guys, but he never 'got it up', it didn't turn him on that much, just a passing interest. Most of the gayboys I know are not at all interested in vagina, but there are some. There are also a LOT of unhappily marrried gay men out there, trying unsuccessfully to force themselves into the hetero mold. My impression is that Ledger's character was an 80-20 who would rarely or never be interested in men- but the one guy he hooked up with ended up being the one true love of his life, no matter what other women he became involved with. The other character, I think his name was Jake, was more 40-60 or 30-70 in favor of guys, he was more into them, and his once or twice a year meetings with the Ledger character were not enough to satisfy that. But he had enough percentage for girls that he was able to enjoy himself with one.
Sexuality doesn't fall into rigid binaries. Like gender, it's best understood as a continuum. Read Michel Foucalt's "The History of Sexuality." The idea of a homosexual is a fairly new social phenomenon.
Well, thanks a lot, man... I have been avoiding reading all Brokeback Mountain threads, Newspaper articles, TV commercials, Tabloid Magazines, Internet sites, rottentomatoes . com opinions, movies with the trailer, Disney all-day festivals, Montrose advertisements, and CF.net signatures...
What else should i be All apologies What else should i say Everyone is gay What else could i write I don't have the right What else should i be All apologies In the sun - in the sun i feel as one In the sun - in the sun I'm married Buried I wish i was like you Easily amused Find my nest of salt Everything's my fault I'll take all the blame aqua sea foam shame Sun burn with freezerburn Choking on the ashes of her enemies In the sun - in the sun i feel as one In the sun - in the sun I'm married Buried Married Buried Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah All in all is all we all are
One could argue money motivated Gyllenhaal's mairraige to Hathaway's character. She was the daughter of a prominent Texas business, something he made mention of several times. Of the two, he seemed to experience the stronger attraction to men. Ledger married because he was supposed to marry. In fact that whole storyline was supposed to emphasize how at odds Ledger's sexuality was with the values his father had raised him with (ex. Ledger's story about how his father had explained the death of a local gay rancher to him). Lee takes great pains to emphasized this point in several places, most prominently when he is in bed with his wife, where he gets off her off manually and then flips her over (in the story, Proulx says "to do thing to her she hates the most" or something similiar). Though heterosexuals can do these too, manual stimulation and anal intercourse (in tandem) are more likely conduits of gay sexuality.
