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Article: `THE GAY COWBOY MOVIE' IS SO MUCH MORE
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 2, 2006
- Author:
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Both Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal are ultimately playing
characters justified in saying "I told you so" in director Ang Lee's
"Brokeback Mountain" (2005). Is Ledger's Ennis Del Mar smarter to
live cautiously but as Gyllenhaal's Jack Twist laments in perennial
emotional pain? Or is Jack thinking straighter to pursue what he
wants in life, never mind Ennis's warnings of the all-too-likely
consequences? You'll have to make that determination for yourself, as
Lee and company don't say tons more than the near-monosyllabic Ennis
in the DVD's modest collection of extras. (Oh, to have had a
commentary from the two stars.)
A collection of production featurettes clocks in at about half an
hour, ...
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...BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, the new gay-cowboy movie, could hardly have more going for it. At the Venice ... Heath Ledger, as one of the film's gay cowboys (the other gay cowboy is played by Jake Gyllenhaal), gives the most astonishing ...
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