"Brokeback Mountain" wins 4 Golden Globes

[TechBear_Seattle]

Best Dramatic Film
Best Director (Ang Lee)
Best Screenplay (Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana)
Best Song: "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" (Gustavo Santaolalla and Bernie Taupin, sung by Emmylou Harris)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060117/ap_en_tv/golden_globes

Other GLBT winners:

Best Dramatic Actress: Felicity Huffman in "Transamerica"
Best Dramatic Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Capote"

[dsc]

1. They did very well

though the actors got blanked. Walk the Line did tremendously as well. The Golden Globes are sometimes a predictor for Oscar. I think the song is a shoo in (it was beautiful). I also think the screenplay has a very good shot in the adapted category. I was very glad to see Brokeback did as well as it did.

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. True, Leger and Gyllenhaal were passed up, but...

Best dramatic actor and actress still went to gay roles, if I'm reading the news correctly.

[dsc]

4. Only Ledger and his wife were nominated

and yes actor went to the guy who played Capote and actress went to Felicity Huffman who played a transvestite.

[Ilsa]

3. The first little bit I saw about Transamerica was on Ebert and Roeper.

I was hoping for Felicity Huffman. What an awesome role! I'd like to see the film, but I suspect it'll never play in my Passion of the Christ town in south texas, so I'll wait for the dvd.

My neighbors across the street have a son who transgendered. Wonderful, loving, understanding people. They appear to have come through it.

[NVMojo]

5. I hear ya, Ilsa! My brokebutt right wing fundie town didn't even let

"Good Night and Good Luck" play here.

[GrumpyGreg]

6. When I read posts like yours and Ilsa's I'm glad I live in the

Boston area where we can get to see anything.

[Ilsa]

14. It isn't too big of a deal because I don't get to the theater

much any more because of my little kids. There are plenty of movies I have to see on DVD for the first time. In some ways, it works out better, but I don't get to enjoy the audience reactions and feeling of shared experience with a large group.

What is more frightening around here is the level of right-wing stupidity as evidenced by this being a red county and the hateful LTTEs.

[GrumpyGreg]

17. Those little kids do tend to change the old lifestyle,don't they?

Thank God for DVD's and videos. When I was raising my kids those things weren't around,money was tight,and I went years without seeing most movies.

[triakis36]

7. Yay! Brokeback Mountain Wins!

I was begining to think the "over"-exposure might backfire and the movie wouldn't win that many awards. But that didnt' happen, and all is right with the world. :party:

[NMMNG]

8. I'll bet the fundies and freepers are crapping their pants

I love it! :evilgrin:

[TechBear_Seattle]

12. Oh, the humanity!

I do hope they thought to stock up on Pampers :rofl:

[NMMNG]

18. Ah, to heck with the Pampers

I'm sure Freepers are used to skid-marks. :silly:

[xchrom]

9. phillip seymore hoffman is the most phenomenal actor.

i was conflicted re: him and ledger.

they are very, very different roles -- both did superb jobs.

before i saw brokeback i didn't think there was any way ledger could hit the high water mark in a year with p. s. hoffman -- but i was wrong.

[Rowdyboy]

10. If Hoffman did a better/equal job to Ledger, then I MUST see "Capote"

ASAP. Ledger lived up to the hype (as did Brokeback)

[dsc]

11. He was phenominal in Capote

though I didn't like the movie itself as well as Brokeback. It is quite worth seeing though. I now want to see Walk the Line given the rewards it received.

[xchrom]

13. it's just different.

this is really a tough one for me -- because the challenges were so different -- one we haven't talked about on du is how much ledger had to change his body to play ennis -- but nothing like what hoffman had to do for capote.

but capote was not ennis -- and both characters are from different planets.

hoffman virtually channels capote -- makes him ''live'' again -- but i can't say that ledger did less.

capote was bigger than life -- ennis is life. i.e. the regular guy who makes the world go round.

what i love -- is seeing gay people on the screen -- i'm of an age where i've seen all the permutations of heteros i care to.

plus what ennis and jack as well -- is put masculine, american characters who are not italian american, or some other permutation
of uber mach, tough american guys who live in the northeast corridor who will probably kill you if you
look at them the wrong way.
it's not that they don't exist -- they exist out of proportion cinematically to every other character.

capote is interesting because you see the juxtaposition between capote and the killers he interviews.

fuck, xchrom, blah, blah, blah shut up already!

[Rowdyboy]

15. No, actually, I enjoyed every word......

You and Dsc have definitely made me much more eager to seek out "Capote". We rarely go to theaters (still can't believe we saw "Brokeback" in Pearl Mississippi!) but that might be our next expedition.

[davidinalameda]

16. Capote never really interested me

I'll rent it when it comes out on DVD but that's about it

[Uncle Roy]

19. A question about acting: Ennis vs Jack?

When people talk about the acting, they almost always mention what a fine job Ledger did portraying Ennis, but they don't usually have as much praise for Gyllenhaal as Jack. Can someone help me to understand this?

I will cheerfully admit I know nothing about acting, and I'm willing to be persuaded that Ledger really did do a superior job. But from my admittedly naive point of view (I sit way up front, and that's really Jack and Ennis up there, not two actors) I found Jack to be much easier to identify with.

That's probably mostly because of the way the characters are written, and Jack's take on their situation is similar to what mine would be, so I'm automatically more sympathetic towards him.

But still, I always felt I knew what was going on inside Jack's head, even thought he didn't actually say very much. I figured that it was Gyllenhaal's acting that was conveying all that to me.

On the other hand, I almost never knew what was going on inside Ennis's head. It's true that he had even less to say than Jack did, and no doubt his character was written to be more closed-off emotionally. Ledger portrayed this very well, and conveyed very little emotion (except for his couple of break-down scenes). I'm not faulting him for this at all. That's who his character was. But isn't it a lot easier to portray a character who shows nothing?

I understand that Ennis is at the dramatic center of the thing. "Will Ennis say yes?" is really the heart of the matter. But that's not an acting issue. That's in the writing.

I just don't understand why Gyllenhaal doesn't get more praise for his acting as Jack. Can someone educate me?

[xchrom]

20. compare ledger's physicallity in this film and others.

from the way he held his mouth to the change from a shuffling walk in some scene's{especially in the later scenes} to the stride in others -- he brought ennis home to live in his body -- a distinct difference from his ''body''.

what i loved was the acting was nuanced -- i was able to suspend my disbelief -- for both characters.

which is what you pay all that money for.

gyllenhall was good -- no doubt about it -- but in many ways the script wasn't written to ask him to do the reach that ledger needed to do for ennis.

the physical change that gyllenhall was called to make wasn't that big -- it might have been considerably different if they had made him more buck tooth as he is written in the book.
too, between them -- jack is a more genial, likeable, approachable character compared to ennis.
you know what jack is going to do -- it's ennis who keeps you wondering

but if you stop and think about it -- gyllenhall must have been really, really good -- cause no way could ledger have done his job right if he hadn't been.

then you get into all psychological aspects to the job of acting -- yada yada --