How many people were affected and/or influenced by this movie?Did it make you come out of the closet, drove you back deeper in the closet,reestablish a relationship, repaired your relationship with family, friends, etc.? Did it make you moore accepting of others or more rejectful? What other influence, however neglible? Thanking y'all in advance for your candid responses.
2006-06-29 13:17:03 · 12 answers · asked by sacredmud 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
I have to say that the movie haunted me for almost a week. I saw it as a period piece...The caractors were products of the early 60s rural West and couldn't have expressed themselves publicly if they wanted to...I'm not sure how much has changed given the Mathew Shepard tragedy several years ago. I thought the movie was excellent, and commented to many on its lack of dialogue. Then I read the book. The original story is much more spare and seems truer. I work with a couple of different guys who rented the movie not know the movie without knowing anything about it, and never made it past the first primal sex scene. I'm sorry they didn't get to understand that the movie was really a love story, and not just "that gay cowboy movie".
2006-06-29 20:13:19 · answer #1 · answered by Ed H 2 · 7⤊ 4⤋
To be completely honest, the movie had no real effect on me. I've been out for years and don't bother trying to hide anything. What was interesting to me, though, was the number of straight people that were in the theater when I saw the movie. I actually saw the movie in one of the northern, more conservative suburbs of Atlanta and I was very surprised at the turnout. I expected it to be mostly gay people, but ended up being surrounded by more mainstream, straight people than anything. Even more interesting was that the theater was sold out and people were standing and sitting in the aisles to watch it. I was truly impressed that there was no heckling or derrogetory comments either during or after the movie, and the entire audience seemed to be very respectful of the overall content and message.
2006-06-29 15:51:03 · answer #2 · answered by Arakasi98 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didnt see the movie but I read the book. And I must admit I did come out to a gay friend afterward. but it was about 3 months afterward and I am not sure if it had anything to do with the book or not I had been working toward that in my mind before that anyway.
2006-06-29 13:46:20 · answer #3 · answered by ♂ Randy W. ♂ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, I've been out of the closet for a long time. The movie haunts me because of it's realism...that's what life has been like for many gay people---for many many years...Don't think for a minute that it doesn't still happen--lots of "straight men" aren't quite as straight as they'd like you to believe.........But ultimately "Brokeback Mountain" is a love story. A love story where they couldn't have fullfilled it even if they had known what 'gay' was.
2006-06-29 15:11:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it merely makes you, like something human beings, decelerate and seem at that prepare harm. watching 2 adult males, kiss does not make a man or woman gay, possibly curious yet not gay. My husband calls it Humpback Mountain, i don't understand why, he's by no ability seen it. circulate determine! I stared you, because of the fact i like and omit my mom, greater widely used, she exceeded in 2004.
2016-12-08 14:05:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The movie is over rated. But it's true to life. Realationships like that happen more then you would think. Boys don't cry was a much better movie.
2006-06-29 13:41:25 · answer #6 · answered by diveraimee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am from the town that that movie was based on. that movie plain out sucked. however, it showed that there are gay people in this world and there is no "cure" or whatever. try curing child molesters and the rest of those sick f***s. not consenting adults who do what they want with their lives
2006-06-29 18:21:37 · answer #7 · answered by johnny_on_the_spot 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did enough people even see it for it to have any influence? What did it earn at the box office? $25.00???
2006-06-29 13:30:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought it was seriously overrated. I 've seen more passion and love on the "L" Word.
2006-06-29 13:30:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It made me want to go out looking for cowboys. Okay, and it also made me sad for those guys.
2006-06-30 07:14:51 · answer #10 · answered by captlex 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋