The Brokeback Project

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05/06/06- Found this article in a New York Times that someone had laying around the office. It makes the argument that other gay themed projects should have an easier time in New York City because of the widespread acceptance of Brokeback. According to the article this is furthest from the truth.

05/05/06- I found this article about the rise of short stories being the basis of films while I was searching for information about Million Dollar Baby for something I was working on for applications for graduate school. I think it is interesting that Annie Proulx was always in the back of the production crews mind during the awards period. At the same time Larry McMarty is most likely thinking about fellow writers when it comes to these things.

4/25/06- This cover of the February 27th New Yorker is of course a parody of the Brokeback Mountain movie poster. It was released around the time that Vice-President Cheney had shot Texas lawyer Harry Whittington. There are multiple ironies of course to this image. Susan decided that she would try her hand at texual analysis that she wants me to include in this post. She believes that Cheney's lips represent a heart, as he is in love with either the President or his gun, place that within whatever context you want in regards to the film and the event. The President on the other hand looks confused or upset, read this in regards to either Cheney's love for Mr. Bush or Cheney's love of his gun, or both.

4/15/06- http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1167767,00.html I have no idea if this is the article that I read while I was waiting for Susan at the dentist or not. I was talking to Susan last night about the project and admitted to her that I was a little worn down by the whole thing. She seemed to think that I meant that finding and recording the references were getting too difficult. I don't think that's it. I suppose I'm just a needy author. Even though I said that I wanted to know that other people were reading it I shouldn't have made this a blog as well. I can feel the palpable nature of my failure. I also don't want to make each one of my entries into anything political. If Ang Lee wants people to see Brokeback Mountain as a love story, so be it. I suppose my problem is trying not to make each one of these blog entities a personal attack on the issues these clips and articles provoke.

5/03/06- Anthony Lane gives a better good overview of 2005 in film in this article from the January 16th issue of the New Yorker. He seems to make the claim that the film is heavy handed in saying that gay men are just like everyone else. I don't know what to make of this. Could it be that in the film male on male violence is a "sign" of the West even while trying to tell a nontraditional "western?"

5/2/06- No new Brokeback references today. Susan and I borrowed one of Susan's friend's cats in order to control the rodent population in our apartment. The only problem is that both of us are deathly allergic to the little girl.

5/1/06- I just saw a program that said that if Ellen had not come out as a homosexual on her sitcom of the same name then a film like Brokeback Mountain would never have been made. This case of hyperbole comes from E of course. I don't know how I feel about history being placed on events that haven't really been contextualized yet.