“Brokeback Mountain“Losing the best picture to” crash “at the 78th Academy Awards 2006 is often quoted as one of the most Egregius Oscar guys through the ages. Two decades later, “Brokeback Mountain” writer and producer Diana Ossana still remembers to lose And the moment she realized that the price would avoid her.
Speaks to New York Times for filmThe 20th anniversary, Ossana, who together wrote the script with Larry McMurtry, said she saw anchored homophobia against Ang Lee’s movie from some of Hollywood’s elite. She remembered to participate in a party on the “Crash” director Paul Haggi’s house and was excited to meet Clint EastwoodWho had had his own Oscar’s sweep last year for “Million Dollar Baby”, just to hear that the western icon had not seen her cowboy movie.
“Paul started walking over me and he goes,” Diana, I have to tell you, he has not seen your movie. “And it was like someone kicked me in my stomach,” Ossana said. “That was when I knew we would not win the best picture. People want to deny (the homophobia was a factor in the Oscar race), but what could it have been? We had won everything until then.”
Ossana continued to explain that the film’s roll -out gave her a unique perch to see the US’s developing perspective on gay rights in 2005. While watching the film in theaters, she was able to observe individual discomfort that knew against gay sex scenes, even when the film’s story largely exaggerated these pre -stretch.
“The theaters were all packed because everyone was so curious about this movie,” she said. “And when the sex scene between the boys came on, you would see that some people got up and left, but not so many. At the end of the movie no one would leave. They would just sit there nailed to their places until the lights were lit, and there would be people cry.”
Anyone who missed the chance to see “Brokeback Mountain” on the large screen in 2005 now has an opportunity to witness it for themselves 20th anniversary From focus functions.
