Official Disciplined for Screening "Brokeback Mountain

[#juan]

Prison official disciplined for screening 'Brokeback Mountain'
Last Updated Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:35:15 EDT
CBC Arts


A correctional officer in Massachusetts is being disciplined for screening the award-winning film Brokeback Mountain for inmates.

Actors Heath Ledger (left) and Jake Gyllenhaal in Ang Lee's 'Brokeback Mountain.' (Photo: Kimberly French/Courtesy Odeon Films).

Diane Wiffin, a spokesperson for the Massachusetts Department of Correction, said this weekend that the disciplinary action was due to the film's "graphic nature of sexually explicit scenes."

She denied that the action was because of the film's subject matter:

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[#juan]

Re: Official Disciplined for Screening "Brokeback Mount

I haven't seen the movie,

and although that movie won many awards, including best picture Academy award, I'm not sure a prison is the appropriate place to show it.

 

[I think not]

Re: Official Disciplined for Screening "Brokeback Mount

BrokeBack Mountain won Best Director, Best Picture went to Crash. Anyway, it's not like they don't have sex in prisons anyway, so how much worse can a movie do?

 

[#juan]

Re: Official Disciplined for Screening "Brokeback Mount

You are right about the best picture award. The site I went to had the two awards side by side and I grabbed the wrong one.

Given the stereotypical image we have of prisons; Weaker prisoners being forced by stronger prisoners to submit to homosexual acts, is a prison the appropriate place to show that movie? I have read that the movie is very well done, but I am not convinced a prison is the right place to show that movie.

 

[I think not]

Re: Official Disciplined for Screening "Brokeback Mount

I think if you see the movie you might actually change your mind. I've seen it and there was nothing really "graphic" in regards to homosexual acts that would arouse the inmates (I think).

 

[#juan]

Re: Official Disciplined for Screening "Brokeback Mount

We watch a movie or two on Friday evenimg. That movie has just been sold out/rented out by the time I've gotten to Blockbusters. I will see the movie eventually.

 

[Jay]

Re: Official Disciplined for Screening "Brokeback Mount

I heard there was a sequel to BBM coming out this fall staring
Jessica Alba and Halle Berry called "Fur Traders"....

 

[I think not]

Re: Official Disciplined for Screening "Brokeback Mount

#juan

If you're a movie buff I suggest you pickup Crash, I just saw it this past weekend, I found it rather moving.

 

[Jay]

RE: Official Disciplined for Screening "Brokeback Mount

Did you cry?

 

[#juan]

Re: Official Disciplined for Screening "Brokeback Mount

ITN wrote:

I heard there was a sequel to BBM coming out this fall staring
Jessica Alba and Halle Berry called "Fur Traders"....

That was bad...


:lol: :lol:

 

[Blackleaf]

RE: Official Disciplined for Screening "Brokeback Mount

America. The "Land of the Free"?