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It should have been named "humpback canyon". I for some reason have a problem with the word "homophobic" It implies that people who don't like gays or the entire Idea of homosexuality are somehow afraid of the gays or the lifestyle. Phobia means fear. Many folks are anti gay for many other reasons other than fear. The word gay is also a bit misleading, my father was gay and so are several of my old friends and associates and they are/were not for the most part very happy. The word gay used to mean happy. Several of my friends who were gay have already died from aids and even though I never approved of their lifestyles they were still nice people for the most part and I still miss them.
That movie was a great comedy! It should of won an Oscar for that. What I dislike mostly about it is that the movie was shot in Canada and not Wyoming and now people in other states oblivious to the state of Wyoming are going to get a stereotype of the people who are there which is so far from the truth! Don't judge Wyoming based on this movie.
Charlie Russell had Hollywood pretty well summed up...
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I was wondering if Brokeback Mountain caused any increase in tourism to Wyoming? I can't remember a movie showing the beauty of Wyoming (even though much of it was filmed in Canada) in such a way.
Also, did people go to see this movie because it depicted Wyoming? Just curious...
CMR said after hanging around with his buddy Will Rogers in California: "They say pictures don't lie, but Hollywood *****ed that talk..." (this was back in the early 1920's). Even back then, Hollywood was making an art of deceiving the viewer.
Almost no western you see is or was filmed where they claim it was set. Many modern westerns are filmed in Alberta, and not just for reasons of the scenery. The labor costs on films shot in Canada are lower than those shot in the US (by up to 25%, from what I've read). Many of the old westerns were filmed in southern California, and the Vasquez Rocks state park near Santa Clarita especially.
I get a heck of laugh out of films or TV series that are supposed to be taking place in Nevada. One look at the vegetation and I can tell that they're shot nowhere near Nevada. Same deal with Wyoming. Hollywood would have you believe the entire state looks like the area around Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons. Ain't even remotely so.
And besides, most film directors and actors would go ape if they had to actually film on location in the rural west. Where would they get their double-shot, low-foam, fair-trade, non-fat, organic-soy-milk latte?
Shoot, Brokeback Mountain starred Heather Ledger (Australian) and Jake Gyllenhaal (Jewish), directed by Ang Lee (Chinese) and filmed in Canada, is surely an accurate description. Parts of "Flicka" with Tim McGraw was shot in Sheridan, WY might be a better depiction of life in Wyoming.
I don't know whether people went to the movie because it depicted Wyoming, but I do know a lot of men who said that they would not go to the movie due to it being about gay cowboys. Although we'd not like to think that people are homophobic here, that tells us that there are those who are. I know many women who went to the movie but their husbands/sig. others, etc. would not go with them. So if that is any indication, I'd venture to say that more men are anti-gay than women.
Personally, it doesn't matter to me what people do in their private life. I thought it was a good movie myself.
Your statements are true to an extent however, the homophobia that you described among men seems particularly common in rural, conservative states like Wyoming.
I am gay. I grew up in Cheyenne for 9 years. After I graduated from high school, I moved to Denver to attend college. There is a night and day difference between the attitudes here and in Wyoming, particularly among straight men. Although I was not openly gay when I lived in Wyoming, I heard tons of anti-gay slurs, and many of the men I knew seemed very uncomfortable even being associated with a gay person (maybe they were afraid that the gayness would wear off, LOL).
People in Denver are much more open and accepting. I am friends with many straight men. I've taken several of them to the gay bars with me. Beleive it or not, quite a few bartenders at the gay bars that I frequent are straight. It's just not really a big issue here like it is in Wyoming.
I'm with the posters who feel that Brokeback Mountain did not provide a large tourism boost for Wyoming. The movie was after all, filmed in Alberta, Canada.
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Charlie Russell had Hollywood pretty well summed up...
