Quote: Pig Iron said: It isn't in your face to me. I'm putting myself in the shoes of the average american is all. People who don't like gay pride parades, people who hate the idea of gay marriage, etc.
Pariah, the average American. A thought so horrifying you'll need a second mattress.
Quote: Pig Iron said: Ang Lee has a known name. It could be widely accepted I just think Alaskan fishermen would do better than cowboys ..I dunno. I'm outta material, and my original post that never appeared was more cohesive.
It's not like some arthouse film exec woke up one night and decided to make another gay soapbox movie. This isn't Judd Winick. Edna Annie Proulx wrote the story years ago. She lives in Wyoming. Wyoming has a lot of cowboys. Wyoming is also home to a fairly significant anti-homosexual presence(remember the Matt Shepard murder?), like a lot of underpopulated plains states. That's it.
I don't think I'll see it in theatres, since I'm not big on love stories(gay or otherwise), but the only people I can see being threatened by this are, well, homophobes. If it does challenge a lot of modern movie conventions, then more power to it. I like films like that.
