Audience Laughter During the Gay Scenes in Brokeback Mountain?- Page 4

[LaurenB]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 1:47pm

Yes, and heaven knows, you are the arbiter of what is funny and what is appropriate. And everyone else's opinion is wrong, they're ignorant, they're immature, they're insenstive, sadistic, etc.

[eslgr8]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 1:52pm

Youwantitwhen, your comments were really insightful and eye-opening. Thanks for using the word "natural" when discussing the attraction between Ennis and Jack. This is truly the best way to describe a person's sexual orientation, whatever that may be. Too many people are not able to think outside the box, so whatever is unnatural to them must be wrong. I like to use the example of right-handed and left-handedness. Ask a right handed person to write with his left hand and he'll tell you it doesn't feel "natural," when of course we all know that it's perfectly natural to say 10% of the population. There are cultures in the world where being left-handed has been seen as wrong or even evil, when we all know that it's not a matter of being right or wrong. So thanks again YWIW, for sharing your journey to understanding the naturalness of our feelings of love or sexual attraction for another person, and good for you to have gotten so quickly used to seeing two people of the same gender expressing this love or attraction.

As to inappropriate laughter in a theater, perhaps I was coming down too hard on those who laughed when I would have wanted silence. As has been posted here, the fact that they saw the movie through to the end is to their credit, and I'd guess that many of them by the end of the film have had some kind of change of heart. Still, I'd rather wait to see BBM for a second time on DVD rather than risk having my own involvement in the film ruined by those around me.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:27pm

Perhaps? Elitism takes many forms. Good for you for "sharing your journey" of seeing BM before the ignorant stupid riff raff ruined it for fine upstanding queens like yourself.

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:50pm

Haha, Lauren, really each of your posts here makes you sound more....well, I'm really going to leave this thread now. I'm going to enjoy my day!

[LaurenB]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:00pm

OK Jane. Pick up your ball and leave the playground. Just remember, or re-read the thread. It was you who threw the first salvo.
Updated On: 1/22/06 at 03:00 PM

[Elphaba]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:12pm

there was laughing and sobbing when I saw Schindler's List.

I'm sure when we visit Auschwitz in Oswiecim I will cry. Dachau and even what little is left of Buchenwald made me lose it.

Ironic that Robert Clary, French actor, who played Corporal Louis LeBeau on the television series Hogan's Heroes was in Buchenwald during part of the war.

sorry, not trying to threadjack, just thinking about Schindler....Buchenwald had a sign on the inside of the main gatehouse, which could only be read from the inside, that said
'Jedem Das Seine'.....loosely translated it means
"To Each his Own," or "Everyone gets what he deserves."

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:14pm

I remember this one guy made out with his girlfriend during Schindler's List.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:16pm

Namo, and you didn't yell...'GET A ROOM!"
I think I would have......

[Auggie27]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 7:20pm

After seeing it over the holidays in the rarified semi-bohemian town of Montclair, NJ, today I attended at a large suburban sprawl multiplex. To my surprise, the audience -- well over half of one of the bigger houses -- sat reverential. The laughs were brief, in the same places discussed in this thread, no more forte or derisive, and the responses otherwise hushed and consistent. The audience was over half female, and many over 55. They were there to size up the next big thing--the artistic end-of-year must-see. There was no sense of discomfort. Curiously, I think the film has wide appeal for older people, because the themes of love, loss, and time as a thief resonate.

The film has made over 7.7 million this weekend, hitting 42 million in 7 weeks, landing at number 5, and clearly, irrovocably, has legs. Even if it starts to dip, and of course, it may very soon, it will easily exceed 50 million in domestic b.o. alone. Surely beyond Focus's original hopes. And if it wins the Oscar? There's no denying that the film arrived at just the right time, at the end of a relatively weak year for grown-up fare. One could also say, the right time in the culture wars, or whatever catch-phrase best sums up its socio-political context. Seeing it again, I realized: The film steadfastly refuses to have any political agenda, so perhaps, that is its strength and plays no small role in its word of mouth.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 8:15pm

If it wins the Oscar, I, for one will be awash with tears of pride.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 9:03pm

big salty tears, namo?

[vbplayer]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 11:32pm

You have to love all the attention it gets. Thanks to certain posters, it really stays out there.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 1/23/06 at 7:37am

Guilty as charged. Salty tears optional.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/23/06 at 8:18am

I can't believe there was a Woman of the Year joke on this thread and I missed it! And OF COURSE it was the fabulous Kringas!

Does anyone know the story of the night Merman was dragged to see Lauren Bacall in Woman of the Year? At the climax of Bacall's big song "One of the Boys (Who's One of the Girls)" Bacall hit of her legendary "foghorn" notes.

Merman squirmed through the big build-up to the big note, as Bacall "sang":

I've layers of lacquer a lady enjoys,
I've earrings and bracelets and various toys,
But I love when I've slipped into ripped corduroys,
Because I'm one of the girls...
One of the girls...
One of the girls
Who's one of thuuuuuuuuuuuhhh--

From the middle of the 10th row, the entire audience heard Merman mutter, "JEEEZUS!"

Seething, Bacall held her arms at 10-and-2 and sang the final word, "--boys!"

The reception in the dressing room after was icy, to say the least.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 1/23/06 at 8:38am

Now, see, THAT is a Merman classic. One worthy of a threadjack.

[dramaparoxysm23]

Posted: 1/23/06 at 9:04am

I haven't seen BBM yet, since AAFES doesn't have it. (We were told it's only because the reels are in short supply and not because of the content, but I doubt this.) I'm hoping to see it at a cinema in London, or I'll have to wait til it's out on DVD. If it were to play here, I'd probably see a large group of middle schoolers in the front rows making stupid comments throughout the entire movie and laughing hysterically (as in "I'm laughing at you", not "I'm nervous and uncomfortable".) Oh, and there would be lots of "OOH, HE SAID..." and "OH MY GOD!" type things being yelled.
And no one makes them shut up when they do this at other movies. It irritates me to no end.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 1/23/06 at 9:15am

Continuing the threadjack. PJ, gotta love:

"It's my night Sammy, so you can't give it, your well known whammy.."

AND, Bacall's lesson in vowels replacing pitch:

"Gohd daaam-mit I Am! The Wooe-MUUUUUUN! Ovvv! Thuuu Yeeeee-er! Listen ta THAAT!"

Updated On: 1/23/06 at 09:15 AM