brokeback mountain

vanilla

so what's up with the scene where ennis is dancing with his new waitress girlfriend at the bar and there is a couple dancing next to them and the women of this couple had what appears to be a totally tattooed back... did we see this correctly? isn't this a bit out of place for WI in their time period//setting?

(sorry for the run on sentence..)

did anyone else see this film?

devincf

A tattoo on a woman would have been rare in the 70s but not unheard of, especially with women who were a little wilder.

sandra dee

I just saw it last night and I was totally wondering the same thing! It was very out of place. The dancing couple altogether were kinda weird. Good catch Vanilla! Did you like the movie? My friend and I were yawning a bit, but the acting was great. I especially liked their tenderness with the baby sheep :0)

metulj

On my "back home" board from my days in grad school in Tennessee: There are people protesting outside of the movie theaters because there could never, ever be gay cowboys. Look, I am married man as straight as Cary Grant ( ), so if you put enough men in a place somehow, someway someone is going to, ahem, experiment. I saw this flick and I found it to be a genuine love story. The tattoo was a little anachronistic, but my mom (late 60s - early 70s gal) has a visible tattoo. Go see this movie. It is good. This is rare nowadays.

apollonia666

metulj wrote: On my "back home" board from my days in grad school in Tennessee: There are people protesting outside of the movie theaters because there could never, ever be gay cowboys. Look, I am married man as straight as Cary Grant ( ), so if you put enough men in a place somehow, someway someone is going to, ahem, experiment. I saw this flick and I found it to be a genuine love story. The tattoo was a little anachronistic, but my mom (late 60s - early 70s gal) has a visible tattoo. Go see this movie. It is good. This is rare nowadays.

It kills me that some people are saying there are no gay cowboys. Hell, I've met one myself, and it's not like I know very many cowboys -- a very kind rancher in rural Oklahoma who got royally screwed over when his partner died. Everything was in the partner's name, and he'd made a will and had it notarized leaving everything to the surviving partner, but in Oklahoma a will has to have two witnesses, so the ranch went to some distant jerk cousins who wouldn't even speak to the couple when their cousin was alive. They were together 24 years and the surviving partner lost everything. He told me about two other gay couples he knew of who had ranches in the county where they'd lived, too.

There's a story about him here -- I took two of the photos on this page, although they didn't credit me:
http://tinyurl.com/943zy

Anyway, all this aside -- I just saw the movie last night and also found it tremendously moving and heartbreaking. Two thumbs up!

teddyballgame

Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger are just trading on the pioneering work that Randy Jones of the Village People did to expose the world to gay cowboys.

vanilla

maybe the tattoo was just hinting towards a sequel with super wild anarcho-punk cowgirls... ?! queer, of course.

carnivore

Is anyone else reminded of the South Park film festival, when Cartman says that all those movies are about "gay cowboys eating pudding" and is right?

pitu

Carnivore wrote: Is anyone else reminded of the South Park film festival, when Cartman says that all those movies are about "gay cowboys eating pudding" and is right?

I wasn't, but I am now. I (heart) you.

And I (heart) gay cowboys eating pudding. Thanks for linking that story apollonia666. I know some dudes with a ranch too, and I sure hope they have double signatures...
:evil:
I hope that Oklahoma ranch is in the path of the wildfires.


and uh, how carefully was that film art directed?
Purposeful biker chick tattoo display, setting a scene not an anachronism.