I am not a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences, but I have seen Brokeback Mountain, and I did like it tremendously—as did millions of others. Our bewilderment over its defeat at the Oscars has been misinterpreted. Would you humor us by considering the following analogy that better explains our position?
Let's simply recast Brokeback Mountain as the story about the intolerance faced by a white woman and her black husband in rural Wyoming in the 1960s....
Monday, March 13, 2006
What if Brokeback had been about race?
An insightful commentary on the Brokeback vs. Crash controversy, by Mark Salamon on AfterElton.com. An excerpt:
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