Why Brokeback Lost
Aussie Dave | Mar 08, 2006 | 2 comments
One of the writers of Oscar nominated film Brokeback Mountain – a tale of love between two married cowboys – believes that the film did not win the prize for Best Picture due to discrimination.
Larry McMurtry, co-writer of Brokeback Mountain, thinks the urban drama Crash beat out his film for best picture because Academy members discriminate against rural stories.According to contactmusic.com , the writer was involved with four Oscar nominated films including The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment . He feels Crash won because it was set in Los Angeles, where most of the Academy voters live.
He says: “The three rural films, I was involved with, lost. The one urban film Terms of Endearment won. Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. Crash was a hometown movie.”
Yep, discrimation against rural stories. That’s probably it.
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An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.Filed Under: General
Crash is economically and racially diverse. Written well. Tough to beat.
Having seen both movies,I think Crash won simply because it was the better movie…sometimes it isn’t easy to face things like that…