Today's topic of discussion.

[hackthis_archive]

In today's Variety there's an article on Brokeback Mountain, one of many that have come out over the last few months and which will doubtlessly be followed by many more. I mention this because in reading it this comment caught my eye,


I don't believe they would have ever allowed an openly queer director to make this movie, nor do I believe that actors of this calibre would have signed on. In a long line of ironic outcomes, it took these guys [Jake Gyllenhaal & Heath Ledger] with impeccable heterosexual credentials to make this kind of breakthrough.
-Critic and author B. Ruby Rich

Do you lot agree with that?

Discuss.

Comments

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

...well if an openly gay director and openly gay actors were making the film it wouldn't be mainstream. So it would've been made, but not in the same way.

Heath has played a gay character before, on a TV show called Sweat. And he's *still* a jerk.

And seriously, who the fuck cares? Two hot men making out. I think we're missing the two-hot-men-making-out POINT, here.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Your icon really does say it all.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

*g* I agree entirely and repeatedly.