The original 'Brokeback Mountain' !
The knuckleheads that love Brokeback Mountaian and insist 'their' precious film was snubbed due to homophobia should note this film -- it won critical acclaim and rave over TWENTY YEARS ago!
shareKiss of the Spider Woman didn't win Best Picture either. It also didn't win almost every precursor best picture award leading up to the academy awards, like Brokeback Mountain did. Also, the plotlines to these two movies are very different. So... what's your point?
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Warlok1, I agree.
The storylines may be different on the surface, but the sexual theme is much like Brokeback: One man who is gay, another who isn't, and, well, we know what happens.
No, I don't think Valentin was gay or "became gay", but there are obvious similarities. I just watched it with a group of friends, and we all kept saying how this was an early Brokeback Mountain, and how surprised we were that it was made as early as in the eighties.
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Hmmm... so you're saying only one of the guys in BBM was gay? Guess I missed that.
"I did cramps the way Meryl Streep did accents" - Calliope (Middlesex)
Valentin sleeps with Molina as an act of kindness. He's not in love with Luis nor is he sexually attracted to him. It's his way of finally being able to repay Luis Molina's kindness, the one that he resents at first. And Molina in turn doesn't betray Valentin, as he was supposed to, and for the first time chooses a harsh realistic act over a pleasant, idle fantasy world.
Basically, KotSW is a movie about two men who are complete opposites, who grow to care and respect each other (even love, in Molina's case) and who find in the other man exactly what they are lacking. It's a story about how people grow, not how they fall in love. It's a story about each man's personal journey to redemption through the other man.
Brokeback Mountain, on the other hand, is about falling in love. More specifically, it's about two men who are both gay and both repressing it (though in different ways and to different degrees), who fall in love (not just lust) against all odds and who find themselves in the claws of tragedy... A Greek tragedy even, where no matter what you do, you're doomed. In their case, if they don't openly express their love for another man, they have to hide and fight for it and it still is in danger of going stale because of all the lies that surround it, but if they do become more open about it (as we hear Jack tried living with another man towards the end of the movie), the homophobic society they live in can't stand it and wants a price to be paid, in blood.
Those are two entirely different stories and just because both movies are gay themed doesn't mean they have that much in common.
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look here, greymantis:
Academy Awards, USA
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1986 Won Oscar Best Actor in a Leading Role
William Hurt
Nominated Oscar Best Director
Hector Babenco
Best Picture
David Weisman
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Leonard Schrader
BAFTA Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1986 Won BAFTA Film Award Best Actor
William Hurt
Cannes Film Festival
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1985 Won Best Actor
William Hurt
Nominated Golden Palm
Hector Babenco
David di Donatello Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1986 Won David Best Foreign Actor (Migliore Attore Straniero)
William Hurt
Golden Globes, USA
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1986 Nominated Golden Globe Best Motion Picture - Drama
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
William Hurt
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Raul Julia
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Sonia Braga
Independent Spirit Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1986 Won Special Distinction Award
London Critics Circle Film Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1987 Won ALFS Award Actor of the Year
William Hurt
Tied with Bob Hoskins for Mona Lisa (1986).
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1985 Won LAFCA Award Best Actor
William Hurt
National Board of Review, USA
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1985 Won NBR Award Best Actor
William Hurt
Tied with Raul Julia for Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985).
Best Actor
Raul Julia
Tied with William Hurt for Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985).
Seattle International Film Festival
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1985 Won Golden Space Needle Award Best Film
Tokyo International Film Festival
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1985 Won Special Jury Distinguished Award
Hector Babenco .
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