Comments on: ‘Brokeback’ Breaks No Ground http://www.wormus.com/aaron/stories/2006/03/12/brokeback-breaks-no-ground.html according to my observations, there is now sufficient reasons for greater optimism Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:18:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: mark http://www.wormus.com/aaron/stories/2006/03/12/brokeback-breaks-no-ground.html#comment-193358 mark Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:44:01 +0000 http://www.wormus.com/aaron/stories/2006/03/12/brokeback-breaks-no-ground.html#comment-193358 Hmm. I don't know the context of the article, but... I think their point wasn't so much that a straight actor is playing someone who's gay. Of course, that's just being an actor. I think their point was more, the people involved went to such great lengths to assure everyone that these actors were most certainly not gay, after having just played gay characters. I think the tragic part they may be referring can be demonstrated by the absurdity of -- when a gay actor plays a straight man, there is no big hullabaloo to assure everyone that this actor most certainly is not straight, but is, in fact, gay. Hmm. I don’t know the context of the article, but…

I think their point wasn’t so much that a straight actor is playing someone who’s gay. Of course, that’s just being an actor.

I think their point was more, the people involved went to such great lengths to assure everyone that these actors were most certainly not gay, after having just played gay characters.

I think the tragic part they may be referring can be demonstrated by the absurdity of — when a gay actor plays a straight man, there is no big hullabaloo to assure everyone that this actor most certainly is not straight, but is, in fact, gay.

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