Comments on: Original Bruno ending involved violent gay bashing

By: Scott P.

Scott P. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:07:45 +0000

Agreed, BUT you were comparing two very different story lines and asking why there was no protest about Brokeback.

By: rantboy

rantboy — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:51:55 +0000

Yes, Scott P, I do. Have you ever read a definition of “satire”? Comedy isn’t all giggling at those crazy kids in the sitcoms, you know – satire is supposed to be savage, because it’s comedy that is mad as hell and isn’t going to take it any more. I suggest you do some more reading before you patronise me….

By: Scott P.

Scott P. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:29:00 +0000

Rantboy,

Do you understand the difference between comedy and drama?

By: rantboy

rantboy — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:02:08 +0000

There’s a pretty brutal gay-bashing towards the end of Brokeback Mountain. Did the gay community have a knee-jerk backlash to that, thinking Ang Lee and his cast were somehow endorsing homophobic behaviour, or did intelligent viewers realise that the point of that scene was to show the violence and hatred engendered by bigotry for what it was? So, if as a community, we can understand artistic nuances like that in drama, why is everyone pre-programmed to clutch their pearls when someone tries to convey EXACTLY THE SAME MESSAGE through satire?

By: Sean Egan

Sean Egan — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:59:54 +0000

hmmmmm…. what to think about this…..

By: Sean Martin

Sean Martin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:05:59 +0000

My guess (and it’s just a guess, folks) is that Cohen wanted the gay-bashing at the end to act as a bitch slap of reality at the audience. No matter how outrageous “Bruno” might be, somehow turning the comedy on a dime into a large dose of the reality of gays and lesbians might actually do some good. Pity they wimped out on the ending; it might have made the film slightly meaningful.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:51:50 +0000

Menstruator,

What makes you so nasty and so downright hateful? Been sleeping on a bed of nails again?

By: Jasun

Jasun — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:47:55 +0000

So why are you accepting ads from him, then? Huffington Post has had like 50 invented “stories” about this movie for the last 5 weeks. I’m just confused as to how this much fake news is being bought here.

By: Steve G

Steve G — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:45:44 +0000

They should have left the gay-bashing in. It could have shown the rest of the world what violence gay people are subjected to every day in a manner people can digest.

By: Chris Sullivan

Chris Sullivan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:31:07 +0000

I wouldn’t see this crap piece of movie on my death bed with a morphone drip. I did notice 365gay.com advertising the film on the main page, unfortuantely