Sunday, April 09, 2006
Day 4
4/9/2006- Brokeback references come in fits and starts. This morning I almost fell after slipping on a magazine clipping from the January 20th, 2006 issue of Entertainment Weekly. That issue contained a list of 25 films that a moviegoer needed to see before Oscar® night. Number 1 on the list was Brokeback Mountain. This is the only copy of the list I could find online: http://www.bobanddavid.com/doug.asp
Started reading the December 19th, 2005 issue of the New Yorker. That issue contains the capsule review Anthony Lane wrote for Brokeback. The capsule is a little bit different from the full review not just stressing the film as a vehicle for Heath Ledger but also praising Anne Hathaway and Michelle Williams. Again, Lane brings up his critique of Brokeback being an “issues” movie (Lane’s phrase) saying it’s “just” (my word) a film about love. My mind wanders to the fact that Hathaway was the star of the Princess Diaries series and Williams was on Dawson’s Creek. Irony, when I found this page to cut and paste the link Jake Gyllenhaal was in a banner ad for Details magazine on the side of the page. This is not the first time that when finding links I have come across other Brokeback material but I have not looked at them because they are not directly connected to the project.
There was much conversation between Susan and I this afternoon about rather I should include seeing Sunday newspaper supplement ads in this account. No decision was come to. There was only one ad in this Sunday’s paper featuring Brokeback. I could try to make some attempt at profundity about the reasoning behind this but I think I’ll let the fact speak for itself. Susan also expected me to make a comment about whither or not Brokeback is an “issues” movie. I am trying to keep my opinion about the politics of the film out of my responses in fear of encapsulating half thought out ideas onto the screen. I will say that I think Brokeback is an issues movie but I don’t think that it was suppose to a hot button polemic that was contemporaneous with American society when it came out. I won’t say anything else until I have time to form more then a sound bite about this subject. I want to apologize for the way that this all appears on the blog in print it will be edited into a more concrete form. I also am I little worried that Susan and I may be the only people that are reading the blog.
What a day of happenstance. While cleaning our bedroom of recyclable material I found a magazine clipping from Entertainment Weekly’s Year-End Special for 2005. I had kept it as part of a running joke Susan and I have that stems out of a sketch from the January 21st, 2006 episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by actor Peter Sarsgaard. Like in the episode we like to say his name like pirates. His picture is on a page showing the style trend of 2005. Sarsgaard is bald with Jamie Foxx, Natalie Portman and Jake Gyllenhaal. Gyllenhaal’s Brokeback costar Heath Ledger is also pictured on this pages as Ennis del Mar. It talks about Ledger making cowboy style chic. There is also a reference to del Mar “…stealing spouses from stable accountants.” The sexual ambiguity of the phrase is wonderful but the reference is still lost on me.
Started reading the December 19th, 2005 issue of the New Yorker. That issue contains the capsule review Anthony Lane wrote for Brokeback. The capsule is a little bit different from the full review not just stressing the film as a vehicle for Heath Ledger but also praising Anne Hathaway and Michelle Williams. Again, Lane brings up his critique of Brokeback being an “issues” movie (Lane’s phrase) saying it’s “just” (my word) a film about love. My mind wanders to the fact that Hathaway was the star of the Princess Diaries series and Williams was on Dawson’s Creek. Irony, when I found this page to cut and paste the link Jake Gyllenhaal was in a banner ad for Details magazine on the side of the page. This is not the first time that when finding links I have come across other Brokeback material but I have not looked at them because they are not directly connected to the project.
There was much conversation between Susan and I this afternoon about rather I should include seeing Sunday newspaper supplement ads in this account. No decision was come to. There was only one ad in this Sunday’s paper featuring Brokeback. I could try to make some attempt at profundity about the reasoning behind this but I think I’ll let the fact speak for itself. Susan also expected me to make a comment about whither or not Brokeback is an “issues” movie. I am trying to keep my opinion about the politics of the film out of my responses in fear of encapsulating half thought out ideas onto the screen. I will say that I think Brokeback is an issues movie but I don’t think that it was suppose to a hot button polemic that was contemporaneous with American society when it came out. I won’t say anything else until I have time to form more then a sound bite about this subject. I want to apologize for the way that this all appears on the blog in print it will be edited into a more concrete form. I also am I little worried that Susan and I may be the only people that are reading the blog.
What a day of happenstance. While cleaning our bedroom of recyclable material I found a magazine clipping from Entertainment Weekly’s Year-End Special for 2005. I had kept it as part of a running joke Susan and I have that stems out of a sketch from the January 21st, 2006 episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by actor Peter Sarsgaard. Like in the episode we like to say his name like pirates. His picture is on a page showing the style trend of 2005. Sarsgaard is bald with Jamie Foxx, Natalie Portman and Jake Gyllenhaal. Gyllenhaal’s Brokeback costar Heath Ledger is also pictured on this pages as Ennis del Mar. It talks about Ledger making cowboy style chic. There is also a reference to del Mar “…stealing spouses from stable accountants.” The sexual ambiguity of the phrase is wonderful but the reference is still lost on me.
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