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[apocalypsos]

The Fahrenheit 9/11 trailer is up on MichaelMoore.com.

"... now, watch this drive." Blech. Stupid president.

EDIT: Also, spotted on IMDb ...

Hulk director Ang Lee could disappoint gay fans by cutting the homosexual kiss between hunky actors Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger from his latest film Brokeback Mountain. The Day After Tomorrow star Gyllenhaal has confessed that he has had homosexual crushes and is willing to snog Ledger - but Lee is anxious about filming the explicit parts of Annie Proulx's novel about two cowboys who fall in love. Gyllenhaal reveals, "We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen."

I'm sorry, it must be the language barrier. Has someone taken Ang aside and explained what "sexual" means? Because at the end of sexual stuff, you don't usually end it standing in the middle of a field smelling like sheep. And damn the Scottish joke on the tip of my tongue to hell!

Dear Ang Lee, please listen to Jake. I beg you.

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[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

I feel compelled to mention that Michael Moore is a satirist, not a documentarian. Just sayin'.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yup. But he amuses me and he hates Bush, so I let it slide. :)

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

Hey, I didn't say he wasn't funny. ;)

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

Kiwi joke. They have far more sheep than we do :p

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Good point. :)

[fyrdrakken]

Also workable as an Australian and Welsh joke, though.

[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

Sheep are such sluts.

[acetal.livejournal.com]

Nah. Sheep are too small for us - we save them for the tourists. We use cows instead. ;)

[opportunemoment.livejournal.com]

Or possibly a Welsh joke. In fact there are lots of places randomly famous for their sheep - Wales, New Zealand and the Falkland islands being the ones that come to mind. Although the Falkland jokes are less of the sheep-shagging variety and more of the Thatcher took us to war over three sheep and an albatross variety. Aaaanyway...
I've been looking forward to Brokeback Mountain for a while. Ang Lee is clearly a big yellow-bellied lily-livered chicken if he doesn't listen to Jake on this one.
If someone suggested having sheep-wrangling as a substitute for kissing in a straight film they'd get laughed right out of California.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

That's the bit that gets me. I understand filmmakers trying to be symbolic, and hell, I'll even go along with it if it's done right. But I'm trying to figure out how sheep-shearing could symbolize homosexuality and I'm comin' up with nothin'.

As for the Scottish thing, I watched HL:The Series for its entire run. The Scottish thing's kinda burned into my brain now. :)

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

um ok...gay sheep-herding porn.

'oh jake...oh heath...i must have you...let's gather sheep together'

wtf? i guess ang is appealing to the elusive sheep fangirl audience.

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

'let's gather sheep together'

I've never heard it called that before. ;)

[tv-elf.livejournal.com]

I fear the fic that this movie will cause.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

that's strange, "the wedding banquet" had some lovely gay sex in it. unless i disremember. does not sound like lee to cut that. maybe the sheep will be intensely erotic 0.o

[glitterdemon.livejournal.com]

I have read this in various sources, and all they seem to have to go on is Jake's quote. I honestly think he was being tongue-in-cheek and the media's just running with it because they're so hopped up about a movie with TEH GAY SEX that they can't take a joke. Screw a kiss, the original plan was to have no-holds-barred fucking, so it seems the IMDb doesn't know what they're on about.

::sigh::

[secretbutterfly.livejournal.com]

Damn you Ang Lee, WE MUST HAVE HOMOSEXUAL SNOGGING!! *shakes fist* because dude. It's a love story. There needs to be kissing, jackass.
*nods*

[cimarosa.livejournal.com]

Kissing?

So I guess I should assume that No Gay Kissing = No Hot Gay Sex On The Stairs?? Can we have one without the other? Someone tell me we can have one without the other.

[tripping-sin.livejournal.com]

word. cutting THE gay kiss? as though there's only one? what about the full-on mansex that's all through the story? i guess we gay fans (and fans of the gays) can all just stop being so excited about this movie.

way to slag off your one guaranteed demographic, assholes.

[vampirespider.livejournal.com]

Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen.

...

There are no words to describe the thoughts going through my mind right now.

Actually, there is a word. BLEACH!

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

best. icon. ever.

allison janney rules with a mighty hand.

[omarandjohnny.livejournal.com]

I think I may have to resurrect the tradition of "going postal" if they cut the love scenes.

::points to semi-auto and little gray shorts::

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Yeah- someone should tell Ang Lee that homosexuality in a movie isn't always, err, the kiss of death.

[adjectivegirl.livejournal.com]

The thing about Ang(sty) Lee is that he's all about the repression, man. He very nearly killed me with the Chow Yun-Fat/Michelle Yeoh UST of Doooooom already.

[weaverandom.livejournal.com]

They have to leave the kissing in! Why would we go see the movie if there was no pretty boy kissing? Dude!

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[starfire-82.livejournal.com]

Just thought I'd let you all know that I heard that the writer person, my guess is the original author, is agreeable to the elimination of the scenes because she wante wider exposure.

*shrugs* Doesn't make me want to go see the movie, I know that.

Stephanie

[backfromspace.livejournal.com]

This is a movie about gay cowboys. People who would be offended by them kissing wouldn't go in the first place.

[beanarie.livejournal.com]

Every time I hear about this movie I just think, "Gay cowboys eating pudding." Then I giggle until my stomach hurts.