Brokeback Mountain: un film de nanas? / the ultimate chick flick?

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January 24, 2006

Pour fêter le nouveau boulot de Matt au Los Angeles Times samedi soir (1), Luke Ford est arrivé à la maison après le Sabbath, tout émoustillé par son dernier scoop publié sur son site (une intrigue dans la communauté juive de L.A.), le plus gros selon lui depuis ses révélations en 1998 sur une épidémie de sida dans le milieu du porno américain. Les touchantes retrouvailles de Luke avec l'ami Ben (photo ci-dessus) ont suscité quelques blagues "Brokeback Mountain", forcément. Luke ne peut s'empêcher d'en faire sur son site en décrivant la soireé:

To celebrate Matt's new job at the Los Angeles Times on Saturday evening, Luke Ford arrived at our place after Shabbat, all excited by his latest scoop on his website (an affair in L.A.'s Jewish community), his biggest since his 1998 revelations about an AIDS epidemic within the U.S. porn industry. Unsurprisingly, the touching reunion of Luke with Ben (photo above) triggered a few "Brokeback Mountain" jokes. Luke can't help throwing in more jokes on his site when describing the evening:

"Unfortunately, the light of my life and my reason for living, Mickey "Bareback" Kaus, err, I mean Cathy Seipp, had left the party an hour earlier."

Ce film de cow-boys gays a un tel succès ici qu'il est quasiment "mainstream", soit entré dans la culture populaire: le rancher de la Maison-Blanche George Bush n'a pas vu le film et cette pensée le fait ricaner étrangement (voir la vidéo.) On aimerait lui murmurer la fameuse phrase du film "I wish I could quit you" ("J'aimerais pouvoir rompre avec toi") reprise désormais dans les conversations, en guise de boutade.

This gay cowboy movie is so successful here that it has almost become mainstream, as part of the popular culture: White House rancher George Bush hasn't seen the film, and the prospect makes him snigger weirdly (see the video.) We'd love to whisper to him the film's famous line "I wish I could quit you", which now pops up in conversations as a whim.

A la soirée, notre copine Sylvie, très attachée à la bouteille d'absinthe rapportée de Prague, a déploré les réactions hostiles de nombreux amis hommes pas franchement emballés par ce magnifique film. Ils expliquent, un tantinet sur la défensive, que Le Secret de Brokeback Mountain est un film de nanas (un "chick flick") voire carrément, un fantasme de bonne femme. C'est aussi le point de vue de Matt, qui a aimé mais sans plus, et souligne que l'auteur de la nouvelle à l'origine du film est une femme. Timmay à San Francisco nous signale justement un article du Chronicle sur la résistance de certains hommes hétéros à Brokeback Mountain, en écho à la chronique humoristique de Larry David.

During the party, our girlfriend Sylvie, who grew fond of the bottle of absinth from Prague, deplored the hostile reactions of many male friends who are not really enthousiastic about this superb movie. They explain, in a mildly defensive manner, that Brokeback Mountain is a "chick flick," if not an outright woman's fantasy. This is also Matt's opinion. He liked the movie but not that much and notes that the author of the short story at the basis of the film is a woman. Timmay in San Francisco points us to an article in the Chronicle about the resistance of some heterosexual man to Brokeback Mountain, in an echo of Larry David's humor piece.

Tandis que nous nous bavardions sur la grâce du film (si bien décrite par Gérard Lefort dans sa critique), Amy photographiait des derrières pour le nouveau blog essentiel: "Est-ce que ces pantalons me font un gros derrière?, le meilleur du genre depuis l'invention de la gallerie "Boobies" sur Buzznet.

While we were chatting about the movie's gracefulness (wonderfully described by French film critic Gérard Lefort in Libération), Amy was taking pictures of bottoms for a new essential blog called: "Does my ass look fat in these pants?", the best of its kind since the invention of the "Boobies" gallery on Buzznet.

(1) Wow, merci Tony Pierce!

Posted by Emmanuelle at January 24, 2006 8:45 AM

Comments

What happened to the English translation?

Posted by: Luke Ford at January 24, 2006 9:35 AM

No, Brokeback is not the ultimate chick flick. Not even close. It's an epic love story along the lines of old Hollywood classics. It is for that reason that it will win Best Picture. They've been honoring similar pics for decades. Think of Brokeback as "Out of Wyoming," "Gone with the Sheep," etc.

Posted by: Brian at January 24, 2006 9:42 AM

Luke: it's coming, there's a little tech glitch. And you'll see: it's all about YOU

Love "Gone with the Sheep"! I also think they'll get the Oscar/

Posted by: Emmanuelle at January 24, 2006 9:46 AM

testing

Posted by: Emmanuelle at January 26, 2006 7:43 AM

There is a reason that heterosexual men, i.e. real men, don't like Bareback Mountain. It is a movie about gays. It is hardly a chick flick - maybe it is a chick flick for those chicks who like gays. To think that movies have gone from "A Man for all Seasons" to this atrocity. This is why the movie industry is having money problems nowadays.

Posted by: Miguel at January 26, 2006 2:11 PM