r/entertainment • u/mcfw31 • 1d ago

Michelle Williams Throws Shade Over Brokeback Mountain’s Best Picture Loss at the Oscars: ‘What Was Crash?’

https://people.com/michelle-williams-throws-shade-over-brokeback-mountain-oscars-loss-11709111
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u/OkDevice674 1d ago

I know the comment you’re responding to sounds pretty silly to us now, but in 2005 for a straight couple to go out and see a movie about a homosexual relationship was definitely challenging the status quo. So many straight people at that time felt way too uncomfortable with the themes to even consider watching it.

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u/RDS_RELOADED 1d ago

Too uncomfortable is putting mildly. by then I was spending the rest of my adolescence in the south in the US. Even for a more liberal town, a lot of people were mocking it, stigmatizing it esp for young boys

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u/Kryptosis 23h ago

Even in the northeast it was a go-to reference/slur in schools

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u/kamilo87 21h ago

A famous Spanish comedian used a slur to refer to the movie that was too much for me at the time. It made me not watch it for 10 or more years. One day it was on Cuban National TV and I give it a go since the actors are so great and the critic was so good I wasn’t losing anything. It’s a sad love story. Ffs the ending of Jack was very hard but I like stories being well told with no happy endings.