CNN: Review: Brilliant 'Brokeback'

[Dioneae muscipula]

On December 9, 2005, Paul Clinton reviewed the movie "Brokeback
Mountain" for CNN. Read the review in
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/09/review.brokeback/

The review started with the following:
The script for "Brokeback Mountain," based on the short story by
Annie Proulx, ...... had also gained the odious nickname of "the
gay cowboy movie," which made the film toxic to many.

Both Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal had seen the screenplay,
by the writing team of Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, and had
been impressed with the results. But it still took two little
words whispered into their ears to make them finally sign on to
the project. Those two words were Ang Lee.
......

Ang Lee, born in Taiwan, has directed films like "Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon", "Sense and Sensibility", "The Hulk", and another movie
exploring gay subject, "The Wedding Banquet". "The Ice Storm" and "Eat
Drink Man Woman" were also his work. His movies are so different one
from another.

Roger Ebert interviewed Ang Lee and in
http://www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/sho-sunday-ang11.html
Ang Lee is quoted as saying

"I was never a citizen of any particular place. My parents left
China to go to Taiwan. We were outsiders there. We moved to
the States. Outsiders. Back to China. Now we were outsiders
there, too -- outsiders from America."