Brokeback Mountain

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`Crash,' `Brokeback' win top screenwriting awards
By Bob Tourtellotte
LOS ANGELES — Hollywood's screenwriters gave their two top film
awards to race drama "Crash" and gay romance "Brokeback Mountain" on
Saturday, setting up a showdown between the two message movies for
the best movie Oscar.

"Crash," which looks at racial tension in Los Angeles from the
points of view of different ethnic groups, won the best original
screenplay award from the Writers Guild of America for its writers
Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco.

"Brokeback Mountain," about a love affair between a pair of lonesome
cowboys that spanned decades, earned Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry
best adapted screenplay honors from the guild.

Moresco said he felt humbled to be honored by his peers. "To say our
script is any one bit better than the others is nuts," he
said. "It's not a competition, and we all know it."

Likewise, Ossana took note of all the scripts and writers competing
for awards and said she felt honored just to be in the same "stellar
company" as the others.

The guild awards are widely watched in Hollywood because many of
their members also belong to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences, which gives out the Oscars on March 5. Together, "Crash"
and "Brokeback" have scooped up many of the top honors from
Hollywood's professional groups.

"Brokeback," earned the best motion picture honors from the
Producers Guild of America and director Ang Lee won the top award
from the Directors Guild of America. "Crash" came back to win the
Screen Actors Guild trophy for best ensemble acting.

Before giving the Writers Guild award to Haggis and Moresco,
Terrence Howard, who starred in "Crash," praised the power of many
of this year's competing movies offered audiences stories that made
them think about the world and about society.

That could also be said of "Good Night, and Good Luck," which
explores free speech issues in a tale about newsman Edward R.
Murrow's battle against McCarthyism in the 1950s.

Its writers, Grant Heslov and George Clooney, were given an honorary
award for a screenplay whose spirit embodies constitutional and
civil rights issues.

The Writers Guild also gives out awards for television series, and
its many writers for ABC network's "Lost" won for best drama series,
while Larry David won the trophy for best comedy series with "Curb
Your Enthusiasm."— Reuters
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read this is if your in manila

Cinemanila International Film Festival and Sky Films present the
much-awaited Philippine premiere of Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain"
at Robinsons Galleria on February 10, 7:30 p.m.

A leading contender at this year's Academy Awards, "Brokeback
Mountain" won the Golden Lion (Grand Prize) at the prestigious
Venice International Film Festival last year and Best Picture-Drama,
Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Original Song at the recent
Golden Globe Awards.

Based on the short story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie
Proulx and adapted for the screen by the team of Pulitzer Prize-
winning author Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, the film tells the
story of two young men - a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy - who meet
in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection,
one whose complications, joys and tragedies provide a testament to
the endurance and power of love.

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Lee ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon") comes up with an epic American love story set against the
sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas.Â* Strictly for mature viewing
with sexuality, nudity, language and some violence, "Brokeback
Mountain" is topbilled by Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne
Hathaway and Michelle Williams.

The dramatic film has also been named the year's best by leading
critics groups such as the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the
New York Film Critics Circle, the Boston Society of Film Critics,
the Dallas-Forth Worth Film Critics Association, the San Francisco
Film Critics Circle and the Southeastern Film Critics Association.

Other awards and distinctions include the Satellite Awards from the
International Press Academy for Outstanding Motion Picture-Drama,
Outstanding Director, Outstanding Film Editing and Outstanding
Original Song in addition to bids for top honors of such major
Hollywood guilds as the Directors Guild of America, the Producers
Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild, the American Society of
Cinematographers, the American Cinema Editors and the Writers Guild
of America.

For ticket inquiries, please contact 9298368 (Sky Films), 4050135
(Cinemanila), or email cinemanila@gmail.com.
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[iamdede]

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[iamdede]

and what i mean by dre... dre nga thread..

[north_star]

i've read this wonderful review about BBM and it tackles on the closet being very symbolical and important in the movie. it's quite long but worth the read. just a warning, it has some spoilers so don't read it if you don't want to.

This is the truth that Heath Ledger, who plays Ennis, clearly understands—"Fear was instilled in him at an early age, and so the way he loved disgusted him," the actor has said—and that is so brilliantly conveyed by his deservedly acclaimed performance. On screen, Ennis's self-repression and self-loathing are given startling physical form: the awkward, almost hobbled quality of his gait, the constricted gestures, the way in which he barely opens his mouth when he talks all speak eloquently of a man who is tormented simply by being in his own body—by being himself

So much, at any rate, for the movie being a love story like any other, even a tragic one. To their great credit, the makers of Brokeback Mountain—the writers Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, the director Ang Lee—seem, despite the official rhetoric, to have been aware that they were making a movie specifically about the closet. The themes of repression, containment, the emptiness of unrealized lives—all ending in the "nothingness" to which Ennis achingly refers—are consistently expressed in the film, appropriately enough, by the use of space; given the film's homoerotic themes, this device is particularly meaningful. The two lovers are only happy in the wide, unfenced outdoors, where exuberant shots of enormous skies and vast landscapes suggest, tellingly, that what the men feel for each other is "natural." By contrast, whenever we see Jack and Ennis indoors, in the scenes that show the failure of their domestic and social lives, they look cramped and claustrophobic. (Ennis in particular is often seen in reflection, in various mirrors: a figure confined in a tiny frame.) There's a sequence in which we see Ennis in Wyoming, and then Jack in Texas, anxiously preparing for one of their "fishing trips," and both men, as they pack for their trip—Ennis nearly leaves behind his fishing tackle, the unused and increasingly unpersuasive prop for the fiction he tells his wife each time he goes away with Jack— pace back and forth in their respective houses like caged animals.

The climax of these visual contrasts is also the emotional climax of the film, which takes place in two consecutive scenes, both of which prominently feature closets—literal closets. In the first, a grief-stricken Ennis, now in his late thirties, visits Jack's childhood home, where in the tiny closet of Jack's almost bare room he discovers two shirts—his and Jack's, the clothes they'd worn during their summer on Brokeback Mountain—one of which Jack has sentimentally encased in the other. (At the end of that summer, Ennis had thought he'd lost the shirt; only now do we realize that Jack had stolen it for this purpose.) The image —which is taken directly from Proulx's story—of the two shirts hidden in the closet, preserved in an embrace which the men who wore them could never fully enjoy, stands as the poignant visual symbol of the story's tragedy. Made aware too late of how greatly he was loved, of the extent of his loss, Ennis stands in the tiny windowless space, caressing the shirts and weeping wordlessly.

In the scene that follows, another misplaced piece of clothing leads to a similar scene of tragic realization. Now middle-aged and living alone in a battered, sparsely furnished trailer (a setting with which Proulx's story begins, the tale itself unfolding as a long flashback), Ennis receives a visit from his grown daughter, who announces that she's engaged to be married. "Does he love you?" the blighted father protectively demands, as if realizing too late that this is all that matters. After the girl leaves, Ennis realizes she's left her sweater behind, and when he opens his little closet door to store it there, we see that he's hung the two shirts from their first summer, one still wearing the other, on the inside of the closet door, below a tattered postcard of Brokeback Mountain. Just as we see this, the camera pulls back to allow us a slightly wider view, which reveals a little window next to the closet, a rectangular frame that affords a glimpse of a field of yellow flowers and the mountains and sky. The juxtaposition of the two spaces—the cramped and airless closet, the window with its unlimited vistas beyond—efficiently but wrenchingly suggests the man's tragedy: the life he has lived, the life that might have been. His eyes filling with tears, Ennis looks at his closet and says, "Jack, I swear..."; but he never completes his sentence, as he never completed his life.

Cinemanila International Film Festival and Sky Films present the
much-awaited Philippine premiere of Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain"
at Robinsons Galleria on February 10, 7:30 p.m.

wow, i wish i was in manila to see the premiere.Â*

[Nezumix22]

The film's source material is actually sensitive, I've read brokeback mountain and I wished the movie would give it justice.. it's haunting and captivating.. and somtimes downright shocking..

I've seen bits and pieces of the film (via some bootlegged stuff) and it's coming up nicely.. looking forward to this in the theaters..

[north_star]

great to hear you've read the story as well. i read the version which was publish in the the new yorker (or was that the new york times) in 1997. i read the other version which has a prologue to it.

haha, i've seen clips from bootlegged stuff as well. guess you know the wbsite already.

[obemon]

With all the accolades & controversy this film is getting, I really do hope there's gonna be a sequel... this time involving 2 lesbian cowboys, or 2 lesbian hookers, or 2 french maids.

That would be sweeeet! :mrgreen:

[north_star]

^jerk...corny...

from one of the BBM fanatics:

We can ALL hope that the voting members of the Academy will also see that Heath's Ennis is the best male performance in years. I've said it elsewhere, but I'll repeat it here. Heath took a character that was basically on paper. He created Ennis from only words on a page as well as the inspired direction from Ang Lee. PSH gave a fine performance as Truman Capote, but his was a recreation of an existing person in history, whose voice and mannerisms were very well documented. PSH did his homework quite well, but mimicry doesn't begin to compare with the creation of a character as affecting as Ennis Del Mar. I'm hoping for a wonderful surprise on Oscar night when Heath gets named Best Actor.

[obemon]

from one of the BBM fanatics:

We can ALL hope that the voting members of the Academy will also see that Heath's Ennis is the best male performance in years. I've said it elsewhere, but I'll repeat it here. Heath took a character that was basically on paper. He created Ennis from only words on a page as well as the inspired direction from Ang Lee. PSH gave a fine performance as Truman Capote, but his was a recreation of an existing person in history, whose voice and mannerisms were very well documented. PSH did his homework quite well, but mimicry doesn't begin to compare with the creation of a character as affecting as Ennis Del Mar. I'm hoping for a wonderful surprise on Oscar night when Heath gets named Best Actor.

You've been a great ambassador for this film. I salute you. I hope it does well at the Oscars ceremony too. BTW, I saw BMs soundtrack CD the other day at the music store. I was a bit dissapointed actually, after knowing Boy George's Karma Kameleon wasn't on it.

[north_star]

i wouldn't be an "ambassador" for this film had i not known and seen the movie to be worth the watch. even if i was straight i would still watch this movie although the love scene part would definitely make me cringe...and as for boy george's song, it would be a ridiculous case of bad taste to include his song in the soundtrack, not to mention the fact that it's so not related to the movie.