Premiere article: Brokeback Mountain
Sep. 19th, 2004 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muck_a_luckOK. Not SB/VM. Not even VM/BP. BUT, I'm thinkin' this one will be a must see, regardless. Also, possibly a must-check-out-from-the-library...
And word of warning. For a guy working on a movie like this, Mr. Gyllenhaal needs to improve his patter. I feel like saying, "Stick to the cliches!" [AN - Bull Durham reference. Haven't seen it? Do.]
From Premiere, October 2004, page 36
"It's Not Just Sex. It's Love."
"Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger Give Cowpoke a While New Meaning" [AN- Heh. They said poke. *rolls eyes*]
When Will Smith was poised to play a gay hustler in 1993's Six Degrees of Separation, Denzel Washington reportedly warned him: "Just don't be kissing no man." More than a decade later, stars such as Dennis Quaid, Colin Farrell, and Peter Sarsgaard have all defied that advice and received cricital acclaim. Now, Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger are taking same-sex romance to a new frontier in the Ang Lee-directed Brokeback Mountain, adapted from Annie Proulx's sexually explicit story about two Wyoming herdsmen who fall in love.
But don't expect the usual homosexual screen stereotypes from the film, which is currently shooting in Calgary. Instead of having fashion advice for straight guys or something as serious as AIDS, the characters have wives and back-breaking jobs. "These people are not really gay in whatever way we would consider that," Gyllenhall says. "It's about two men falling in love. But in a more complex way, it's about two human heings falling in love." So how does Gyllenhaal feel about getting to on with Ledger? "Every love scene is awkward," he says. "But this is definitely extra awkward for both of us. It will probably disturb some people, turn other people on, and hopefully do both for everybody." However, Gyllenhaal says that sex isn't really the film's focus. "I don't want to be all Dr. Phil, but while we might think we want sex, we want intimacy," he says. "That's what this movie is about." -C.L.
And word of warning. For a guy working on a movie like this, Mr. Gyllenhaal needs to improve his patter. I feel like saying, "Stick to the cliches!" [AN - Bull Durham reference. Haven't seen it? Do.]
From Premiere, October 2004, page 36
"It's Not Just Sex. It's Love."
"Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger Give Cowpoke a While New Meaning" [AN- Heh. They said poke. *rolls eyes*]
When Will Smith was poised to play a gay hustler in 1993's Six Degrees of Separation, Denzel Washington reportedly warned him: "Just don't be kissing no man." More than a decade later, stars such as Dennis Quaid, Colin Farrell, and Peter Sarsgaard have all defied that advice and received cricital acclaim. Now, Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger are taking same-sex romance to a new frontier in the Ang Lee-directed Brokeback Mountain, adapted from Annie Proulx's sexually explicit story about two Wyoming herdsmen who fall in love.
But don't expect the usual homosexual screen stereotypes from the film, which is currently shooting in Calgary. Instead of having fashion advice for straight guys or something as serious as AIDS, the characters have wives and back-breaking jobs. "These people are not really gay in whatever way we would consider that," Gyllenhall says. "It's about two men falling in love. But in a more complex way, it's about two human heings falling in love." So how does Gyllenhaal feel about getting to on with Ledger? "Every love scene is awkward," he says. "But this is definitely extra awkward for both of us. It will probably disturb some people, turn other people on, and hopefully do both for everybody." However, Gyllenhaal says that sex isn't really the film's focus. "I don't want to be all Dr. Phil, but while we might think we want sex, we want intimacy," he says. "That's what this movie is about." -C.L.
