IT’S NO JOKE — by Steve Nadis
Earlier tonight (last night if you want to be that way) I saw Brokeback Mountain. I read somewhere (the Boston Globe perchance?) just before the Academy Awards ceremony, or perhaps I heard it on NPR, that the movie, which had been the odds-on favorite for Best Picture, would not win because it had become the butt of too many jokes. After seeing the movie, I’m dismayed it did not win (though Ang Lee captured a well-deserved Best Director), and I hope it wasn’t because of all those lame jokes using the term “Brokeback,” because this picture is no joke. It’s the real deal–the rare movie that stays with you after you walk out of the theater and actually makes you think.
Heath Ledger was excellent and I’m disappointed he didn’t get Best Actor. I didn’t see Capote but my bet is that Heath Ledger’s role was much less mannered and much less showy and, therefore, more difficult to play than Philip Seymour Hoffman’s flamboyant Truman turn.
Well that’s my report for now. Good luck and good night.
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05:35:00
xmmm,,, part of your community work,
after being a known felon , is to go to the movies
and do the EBERT/SISKEL, routine ,
O.K. well take your critique in mind to watch.
=Z=
Thanks Z! Public service is so much easier with a discerning public.
This too is on my TO-SEE list.
Fortunately, Brokeback Mountain still showing in theaters here in Greece so I don’t need to wait for the DVD.
The “too” is because I’ve just come over from Windfall Woman’s March 12th post.
Thanks FW, if it made your list then I know it was worth the bother. See it on the big screen if you can, rather than on DVD, because the scenery is great.
I was going to comment how your post itself is another Brokeback joke, but then I decided not to stoop so low.
Hey howdy there TB, good to hear from ye’. You were the one who tole’ me ole’ Brokeback was “incredible,” and that’s a why I a went. At least I reckon…