This is my first message on the forum and I'm still figuring out whether I chose the right topic. Please forgive any mistakes, but English is not my native language.
I read the theme of that same ill-fated Oscar and it was as if I had visited the past... As if I was a person from the future looking into the past. So what did I see? All predictions came true.
Crash is seen as nothing less than Oscar's greatest injustice and mistake. Shame on Oscar, Brokeback Mountain has long become a classic that will be studied even in directing courses. Not to mention the impact on everyone, regardless of sexual orientation, country, faith and everything else. If you have a heart, you will never forget this movie...
In a couple of years, the Oscar will come to Heath Ledger, but... will it matter? Despite the brilliant role of the Joker, this Oscar looked like a handout for stolen goods, like the “academics” were trying to make amends or just pay off? Many years from now, another actor will be honored for his role as the Joker, and prizes will be quickly handed out to him, as if to let us know that Heath is not the only genius. I see it like this and I can't do anything. I don't believe it, and I wasn't moved by this actor's speech. I just don't believe it. I apologize if I offended anyone. This is just my opinion. But I always try to tell the truth, exactly what I think
It was as if I was reliving that night at the Oscars, this injustice that still hurts even after all these years. Yes, there will be wins and nominations for other films on the topic. Sorry, but this is so hard to watch... Why? Because it's not Brokeback Mountain and because Heath isn't with us. But because no mistakes in life can be corrected. Especially when the person is already dead...
Hello there. THE ULTIMATE BROKEBACK FORUM is probably one of the best and very few forums on the internet that is dedicated solely to Ang Lee's 2005 film. I personally liked Paul Haggis's
"CRASH" (2004) but I don't think it was Best Picture worthy. It was a bit too derivative with how it seemed to rip off other popular movies dealing with racism and was a bit too preachy with its message about how wrong racial intolerance is, though the film certainly had good intentions. I probably wouldn't describe the voting members of the ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES as being "academics". To me, their opinions are just their own and those opinions are just as subjective as anyone else's, so it really doesn't matter to me what they think of any film.
Now, I do believe homophobia was a huge factor in
"BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN" (2005) not winning Best Picture at the OSCARS in 2006, but I also think it would be unrealistic if the film had won the award to just expect anti-LGBT attitudes of folks worldwide to just vanish into thin air because a gay-themed romance movie had won Best Picture at the ACADEMY AWARDS ceremony. A movie isn't necessarily going to change someone's opinion. Can it? Sure, but it shouldn't take a fictional movie to do that.
I do think that someone else may win the OSCAR for playing the Joker character in some other theatrical film about Batman in the future, and that wouldn't be offensive in my eyes -- after all, Jack Nicholson did a good job playing the character before Heath Ledger did in Tim Burton's
"BATMAN" (1989). I've heard that Joaquin Phoenix gave a good performance as the character in the movie
"JOKER" (2019) which was released over a decade after Ledger's untimely death. Heath was brilliant as the Joker, and I wish he had gotten a chance to reprise that role for another movie. Every actor who plays the Joker onscreen will have a unique spin on the character. I doubt if we'll ever see another theatrical film adaptation of
"BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN" again, certainly not one that would be capable of nicely complimenting or surpassing Ang Lee's adaptation -- not very likely.
I definitely think Ang Lee's film is one that will continue to be talked about and debated amongst film scholars and moviegoers, and that is a testimony to the film's enduring legacy.
