That's just crazy talk! We all KNOW that Brokeback isn't a key issue in the gay rights culture war!!
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http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=11116 via
http://www.oscarwatch.com "Far over to the right on various hysteria "news" programs, the subject is, again and again, Brokeback Mountain. The movie has released something that has apparently been repressed. The American Prospect Online chews on that bone for a while, coming up with:
But if the movie itself transcends the culture-war ghetto, its selling has not. There’s that word: “agenda.” Lane’s line shows that even ostensibly liberal critics have internalized the right-wing claim that the movie is being pushed as part of a larger progressive conspiracy. It’s a notion that right-wing punditry has done an effective job of peddling. MSNBC’S Tucker Carlson, while acknowledging the movie might be good as art, assailed it anyway: “I am merely saying it is used by people with a political agenda -- in this case, its own director -- to make a political point.” (Someone should send him a copy of Lee’s The Ice Storm, a lacerating, neocon-ish critique of the sexual revolution, hardly the work of a radical polemicist.) Reliably, Bill O’Reilly lashed out at the media for pushing the movie solely because it “want[s] to mainstream homosexual conduct.”
Isn't that funny, I always thought of Ang Lee as a radical protestor of gay rights too. While they're at it, they must also hang out to dry the Producers Guild, the Directors Guild, the Writers Guild, the Los Angeles Film Critics, the New York Film Critics, the Golden Globes, the Broadcast Film Critics, Dallas, London, San Francisco, Golden Satellites, Southeastern Film Critics, Vancouver, and the Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festial. Wow, man, that is SOME conspiracy! "
Updated On: 2/19/06 at 03:12 PM
