My Match Point & Brokeback Mountain Saturday
Isn't love simple? Isn't love grand?
Woody Allen's Match Point is a well-crafted piece of cinematic literature. The theme is clear and is consistently woven throughout the film. The bigger questions are explored but left unanswered, which leaves a person with room to wonder. Plan on going out for a cup of coffee of a glass of scotch with your movie buddy, Match Point makes for good conversation.
I don't like or enjoy all literature. But I can usually appreciate it. Welcome to Match Point. I don't give a fig about upper class english folk and the regular folk with whom they associate. The plot was painful and the snobs were excrutiating. Mummy and Daddy, can I have a job for my tennis pro boyfriend...pleeeeeze?
Brokeback Mountain is a story about a love that was not sanctioned or understood by society. Wow, that's never been done before.
Slaveowner & Slave
Person of 1 race & person of another race
Person scheduled for arranged marriage loves someone else
Montague & Capulet
Person inside a marriage loves someone else
Man & Goat (see play: The goat)
1 religion & another religion
Let's make it even more interesting, will use a plot which challenges a character-type that is usually identified in a totally different light. I know let's make a story about homosexual love and set it between two cowboys, the icons of masculinity. This is supposed to be challenging? This is a formula. If you saw the trailer for the movie, you saw the movie.
Heath Ledger is supposed to challenge Phillip Seymour Hoffman for Best Actor? I'd love to talk with anyone who has seen both BrokeBack and Capote. Hoffman is a genius. Ledger plays an introverted cowboy who talks like he has a big wad of tobacco in his lip. Hoffman is the movie Capote. Ledger is part of a trendy movie.
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...'dear drug rehab,'
I'm looking at the string, and trying to figure out '...tobacco, where 'n the devil did they get 'tobacco from.'
---then I see Schartons final summation on Heath Ledgers portrayal of a gay cowboy... (mumbles head down, shuffles, like he as a wad of tobacco in his mouth...)
okay... found it, and thanks for the Surgeons Warning on tobacco use.
Thanks also for NOT reading this string and posting a how-to comment on how to use KY jelly as well.
-you have a good day.
--And Scharton:
WHY didn't this string go further?
'why-why,' (in best Nancy Kerrigan voice...)
I mean, in terms of discussing trend and rehash over brilliance, NOT 'the non-pedestrian aspects of 'cowboy-up.'
...waste of a good thought, if you ask me...
(mumbling, looking down, shifting from side to side,
(NOT spitting tobacco, nor lookin' to get randy.)
-happy landings on your Rogue show, btw...
I intend to be there...
(Didn't see Brokeback,(sorry 'bout Heath dying)
-but did see Capote...
Hoffman has always been a dynamo, love dang near all his stuff, and still find his character in 'Magnolia,' absolutely gripping.)
Capote was phenomenal
but I really enjoyed Brokeback Mountain, too. The dreams not realized theme can be sappy; this was different. Good flick.
Oscar-worthy by Ledger? Probably not. Hoffman was outstanding as the quirky, eccentric Capote. Maybe too indie for main stream America for the Oscar.
Next movie: Memoirs of a Geisha.
Marcel
Subtle?
Do you mean boring or subtle?
The only thing subtle about BB Mtn was when or how these two became attracted to each other. They never showed any build-up of emotional interest or even physical interest. Apparently it was so subtle I missed it.
Please tell me something that you learned from the movie that you didn't learn from the trailer.
I look forward to seeing The Squid and the Whale.
Craig
What is an authentic community?
Are you kidding me with Capote?
Capote is boring and any run-of-the-mill impressionist could have done the voice as well as Hoffman did. Brokeback Mountain was a much better movie, much subtler, and Heath Ledger, while definitely not as good as Jeff Daniels in The Squid and The Whale, is better than PS Hoffman.
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