http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:10:23 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-736414 My Brokeback Mountain webNovel outlining what happened to Ennis after Jack died has moved to its own custom web page. You can find it <a href="http://brokebackmountaintribute.blogspot.com">here</a> now. Thanks to all my readers-sorry I couldn't take the great comments you left with me... Jet 736414@blogcritics.org Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:10:23 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-692649 It's actually a continuation of the sceen where Jack and Ennis are driving on their way to their first "fishing trip". I've gotten hold on an original shooting script and it appears as if most of the shots I mentioned were excised as to not go over budget, or were shot in order to see if the worked and didn't. Since they couldn't be used, they decided to let nothing go to waste and used them in the preview reel instead. sigh 692649@blogcritics.org Sat, 2 Feb 2008 18:19:27 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-692647 hi, this is a great article! i was disappointed too with the extras. i think you mis one picture wich is in the trailer but not in the film and i think it's an important picture. it's the one with ennis closing his eyes apprently moved and at his side, there is jack. both they're in a car, perhap's in jack's car. i think it's corresponding to the separating scene at the end of the summer 692647@blogcritics.org Sat, 2 Feb 2008 18:10:14 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-689713 HEATH LEDGER-an icon to the gay world as Ennis Del Mar was found dead this afternoon in his apartment in New Yorkl details to follow 689713@blogcritics.org Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:55:14 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-546655 Attention: I'd like to invite everyone to look at the right side menu. That button marked BC Forums.... 546655@blogcritics.org Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:17:14 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-532938 Thanks SR. Just barely. I've been busy trying. Trying can be hard sometimes. Jet 532938@blogcritics.org Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:58:00 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-532850 NICE TO SEE YOUR STILL OUT THEIR ALIVE AND I HOPE WELL ON PLANET EARTH. NUKE THE UNBORN GAY WHALES. 532850@blogcritics.org Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:47:15 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-532831 1 You haven't credibly proven I was wrong 2 there's no such thing as a "Wrong Opinion" 532831@blogcritics.org Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:38:53 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-532813 I found this site while looking for a reasonably balanced review of the Collector's Edition DVD. I thought this review was well-written and solid and obviously put together by a fan -- which I candidly appreciated. I didn't realize that "comments" would be encouraged but that was a pleasant surprise as well. (To be honest, I haven't read through them all. In scanning them, I found them to be not dissimilar to the IMDb and BetterMost sites. After a year of visiting these sites, the commentary becomes fairly predictable.) Anyway, having found what I was looking for, I'm out of here. Just a couple of comments though, Jet, as I head out: It's not necessary to second-guess the filmakers' decisions. After all, they did a great job in ensuring the film's success. Like you, however, I would LOVE to see any part of what ended up on the cutting room floor. Hopefully, some day we'll get to see some of it. And, finally, when you're proven wrong, own it. Don't change the subject. Owning it will only enhance your credibilty. Thanks for your good work. Adios. xplrr 532813@blogcritics.org Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:15:09 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-532717 I think we're getting away from the main point. There ARE missing scenes, despite where they did or didn't come from. The point is they should've been included. The fact that the movie was edited DOWN to 2 hours and 14 minutes when most theaters prefer movies no more than 2 hours in length would indicate that they had to slice stuff out that they didn't want to in order to bring the time down, rather than add things that didn't need to be there in order to bring the running time up past an acceptable level. That means things they would've wanted in, were out and a "Collector's edition" should've included them, or at least some out takes. Jet 532717@blogcritics.org Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:46:46 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-532714 Just re-reading this: While I'm very confident about what scene the photo comes from, I failed to indicate that "my contention" regarding the guys being "out of character" was definitely an opinion. In the scene immediately following, the "elk" scene, Ennis says: "I'm tired of your dumbass missing." Obviously there's a leap here between the scenes we see and what MAY have been initially planned for the movie. 532714@blogcritics.org Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:40:44 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-531998 Jet, until now I had never actually checked the "missing scene" in question while holding a copy of the out-take photo in my hands. I have just done so. I think if you do so as well, you'll agree with me. In the post-bear scene, the fleece of Jack's jacket is dark colored, like the photo above. In the "4 years later" scene, it's a different jacket and the fleece is decidedly light-colored. Note all the clothes. Also, Ennis is absolutely hold Jack's bandana in his hands and the knees of his jeans are filthy, like someone who was just thrown from his horse. I stand by my original contention that the photo was taken of Jake and Heath between takes, out of character. It's nice to see that the two of them really seemed to enjoy one another's company. 531998@blogcritics.org Fri, 9 Feb 2007 15:17:21 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-531670 bbguy, there's also a scene that was filmed where Jack and Ennis rescue some hippies that are involved in a car accident. That still of Jack and Ennis leaning back against Jack's black truck in the field, is nowhere in the film either. Jet 531670@blogcritics.org Fri, 9 Feb 2007 09:15:29 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-531668 xplrr, if you go back to the "If you can't fix it..." scene-four years later, Ennis still has his hat on his knee at the opening of it, but he's laying on his back, and Jack is holding the same whiskey bottle. The scene apparently is joined in the middle where Ennis is joking with Jack about thanking heaven for Jack forgetting his harmonica, in which they are laughing with each other. it is definitely not a continuation of the bandana scene aftermath of Ennis getting thrown from his horse, because Jack never holds the whiskey bottle when their together, he hands it to Ennis after he asks for it. Jack put it down when he heard the sound of Ennis' approach in the dark and never picked it back up again until after Ennis asked for it. Jet 531668@blogcritics.org Fri, 9 Feb 2007 09:13:24 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-531651 Another probable missing scene: some stills are around, showing Ledger/Ennis in his Lighting Flat duds, carring the shirt bag, in a little country cemetery. I guess a short scene was filmed, wherein he takes a look at the Twist family plot, on his way back home from LF. 531651@blogcritics.org Fri, 9 Feb 2007 08:52:46 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-531579 I think the reviewer may be wrong about what he identifies as the second "missing scene:" Judging from their clothes, the position of Ennis' hat and Jack's whiskey bottle, I think the guys are dressed for the earlier scene where Ennis comes to camp late, having been thrown from his horse. (Note Ennis' dirty jeans. Also, isn't he holding the wet bandana that Jack gave him for his bruised forehead?) Since it's not in keeping with the tone of the scene, I've always thought that it's simply a photo of Jake and Heath, out of character, shot between takes. 531579@blogcritics.org Fri, 9 Feb 2007 07:15:17 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-525583 Forgive me BC notices keep showing up as spam on my new e-mail-I'm trying to retrain it. 525583@blogcritics.org Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:54:15 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-525581 Sorry I haven't been around lately, I've been helping set up the new BC forum. Be back soon Jet 525581@blogcritics.org Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:48:15 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-521567 After further reseach I find that Author Janice Scott-Blanton who filed $250 million lawsuit claiming there are too many coincidences between the film 'Brokeback Mountain' and her novel, 'My Husband is on the Down Low and I Know About It' is too full of shit to be real. The similarities, she says, are evident in over 50 scenes in the movie, including the first sexual encounter between the two cowboys. <b>Publication dates may be of particular interest to the courts: Scott-Blanton's novel came out in March 2005; Annie Proulx's short story, later adapted nearly to the letter, into the film, was published in 1997. You do the math. </b> Jet 521567@blogcritics.org Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:39:50 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-520394 A comment from another forum (and I agree) is that this woman has been laying in waiting for some years to see if it was going to be profitable before she brought this suit. Let's just hope there's a statute of limitations on the bitch. Jet 520394@blogcritics.org Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:06:22 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-520246 Just like the two stars of this trash...the movie sucked the big one. [Edited] JustOneMan 520246@blogcritics.org Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:23:46 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-520023 This appeared in the ADVOCATE today... Sound's pretty suspicious if you ask me, after all it's been nearly 10 years since BB was published in the NEW YORKER 5 since the movie has been in production and almost a year and a half since it was released, and only NOW she noticed it? Give me a break ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Author files $250 million suit against makers of Brokeback Mountain <i>Janice Scott-Blanton, the author of My Husband Is on the Down Low and I Know About It, filed a $250 million lawsuit claiming copyright infringement against Universal and the studios that financed and distributed Brokeback Mountain, reports BlackNews.com. Scott-Blanton claims there are over 50 substantial similarities between her novel and the Academy Award-winning film. An early bar scene in the movie reminded Scott-Blanton of a scene from her novel, but she chalked it up to coincidence until further scenes, including the first sexual encounter between Jack and Ennis, reminded her of her novel. In Brokeback Mountain Alma confronts her husband Ennis about his homosexual activity during Thanksgiving dinner and tells him she purposely wrote a note and put it on his fishing line for him but he never found it. According to Scott-Blanton, this scene is strikingly similar to a scene in her novel wherein her character Annette confronts her husband James about his homosexuality on their ninth anniversary. James tells her he wrote a confession in his journal purposely, knowing she was secretly reading it. Both scenes are set in a kitchen. Scott-Blanton will argue in court that the film is strikingly similar to her novel in terms of characters, plot, themes, and sequence of events.</i> (The Advocate) 520023@blogcritics.org Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:23:58 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-519156 Insomniac487, You're the kind of fan I'd really like to have you opinion of how I finished Ennis' story. Go to #8, click the link and tell me what you think after you've read it. Jet. 519156@blogcritics.org Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:25:24 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-519139 I'm going to have to agree with you Jet, about the letdown over the BBM's collector's edition. Sadly, it did not live up to people's expectations. Your opinion about universal studios seem interesting. I kind of see it that way too :( I wish they weren't like that, but sadly its how the industry works. It's all about the money. regardless of its letdown or content, I planned on buying it anyways. my collection of BBM magazines, books, music, dvds (wide, full, collectors editiions) are all important. Heh. 519139@blogcritics.org Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:09:48 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/23/132653.php#comment-519006 Sorry Handy guy, as a matter of fact most of it was published here at BC and I got nothing but praise about it. You shouldn't judge it until you've read it. 519006@blogcritics.org Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:12:22 EST