I thought I'd said all I needed to say about last night's Oscars in my earlier post and we could move on (as I'm always so super anxious to do with awards season) -- but then I remembered that nominee Isabella Rossellini wore a blue velvet gown to honor David Lynch and I started crying again! Just a perfect tribute -- if the show itself couldn't be bothered save a five second placard in their "In Memorium" segment to honor the most important American filmmaker of the past oh let's say fifty years, then at least Isabella and her seat partner Laura Dern got to be front and center and do their own little visual tribute. Sad they couldn't get Kyle Maclachlan and Naomi Watts beside them, but every time they cut to these two it packed a wallop. The Oscars, you might recall with the righteous fury of indignation I too carry, only ever gave Lynch an Honorary Oscar, and his acceptance of it got shuffled off to a side-show. As I've said before that was my breaking point with truly giving a shit about these awards. The break that started with Brokeback officially broke then! Anyway bless these two queens for representing.
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And they dedicated 7 minutes to a damn James Bond tribute instead of a David Lynch tribute. 95% of that audience has been inspired by that man! All of the midnight movie loving, surreal loving girlies love them because of HIM.
Shame no tribute but it's pure hyperbole to suggest he was the most important filmaker of the last 50 years,a unique visualist but the MOST important that's fandom and nothing more.
Tell me more about your beef with Brokeback and the Oscars---
PS ---- I did my homework and read your post from 03/08/2006. I had to read it twice. I would 100% agree. You stated, "The concern is not so much that fans will not accept them, but that the decision-makers who have hiring approval will consider the performer's sexuality as yet another "risk factor" for a given production." It's all about risks, perceived or otherwise. Audiences have moved on but the powerbrokers are hanging on to beliefs of the past. Pew Research states that in the US 72% are accepting of gay people. All the jokes about Brokeback are adolescent at best and reinforce the ignorance of being gay in a sometimes complicated world. I am not surprised at the shortsightedness of translating gay written material into film. The gay parts are milquetoast at best or changed altogether. Chicken shits. Your comment is spot on addressing the gay tragedy in the film "because the tragedy is not the fact that these men are gay, not who they are, but where and when they are. Their gayness is the only ray of sunlight in the entire film. It's the good thing, the true thing, and everything else only spoils that truth." Brokeback was an enjoyable film for me. I support your thoughts that the gayness of the film is the only bright spot and all other circumstances surrounding the young men are oppressing them. The guys are coming to terms with their love for one another but society says otherwise. That's the reason Jack was killed, Ennis's marriage dissolved and now he is living in a trailer out in no where's land.... Brokeback could be a great film to have in a college film class and just dissect it and draw out its subtle and overt meanings. The last scene towards the end of the movie tears me up every time. You know where Ennis is in his trailer and pulls out his shirt handing on a hanger he found in Jack's closet that he has kept after all these years. Did you notice the placement of the shirt from when he first discovered it to now? Just heartbreaking. What could have been? Let me put an end to this diatribe. All in all the relationship between Jack and Ennis was the bright spot of the film. The circumstances surrounding and affecting them are what needs to be talked about. It could have been a film to move the conversation of LGBTQ acceptance forward. We are more than the fag jokes. We have feelings, hopes, and dreams like everyone else. See us, support us.
Hollywood needs to do better. You would think that from 2006 till 2025 the honchos would have changed and their views would be in line with where our society is at. Don't get me wrong LGBTQ folks have made strides. You know the film genre more than me and I await your follow-up to your 03/08/2006 post. Do we have films where the man gets the man-or gal-where we ride off to the sunset? Yes, the making of movies today has moved away from putting on film a creative idea, one to challenge the audience. Now it's more of a business. What can they get in box office returns on the FIRST weekend? Why do we have all these loud action movies, superhero-type movies? The low-hanging fruit. I say let us do better. We can do better but we may be waiting a little longer if ever.
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