Comment on Broke Back Mountain
Sonya Jones forwarded me the links of some comics inspired by Broke Back Mountain: here, here, and here. I confess that the movie as well as the comics make me uncomfortable, but I wrote to Sonya that at least I would feel somewhat better if they referred to the main characters as sheepherders and not cowboys. Afterall, I seem to have some recollection from the movies that I watched as a kid that cowboys and sheepherders did not get along very well.
Anyway, I will be attending a gun show in Dallas this weekend, and possibly I will get some feedback from some real cowboys.
Anyway, I will be attending a gun show in Dallas this weekend, and possibly I will get some feedback from some real cowboys.
posted by John Lott at 3:26 PM
2 Comments:
Good point John regarding the difference between cowboys and sheepherders. As I recall from reading western history, there was a lot of animosity between the two. The sheep destroyed the range as they chomped it to close to the ground and killed the grasses and forbs. The litter left by the sheep also turned off the cattle.
I personally think this movie should be banned and burned.
Dean's list of what was generally happening in the world of 1963 has nothing whatever to do with the realities of what was happening in Wyoming during the same time, and is a quizzical observation to make it the first place. The story of BBM rings true, for the most part,then, as now. To what kind of fantasy "Cowboy Era" is Dean referring? Little has changed in places like Wyoming in the past 40 or so years. Ever heard of Matthew Sheppard? What's with people that they feel they must somehow discredit the possibility / reality of two men sleeping in the same tent anyway?
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