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Last night I went to the cinema and I saw Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto. Now, on the one hand, it puzzles me a lot that Brokeback Mountain was lauded all over my Friends page and reviewed and iconed (including by yours so very truly -- what's the fun in life if one cant' be a lemming?) and that I heard about Breakfast on Pluto for the first time via a cinema trailer ten days ago when I was seeing Brokeback Mountain. And on the other hand, I am not puzzled because a) Hollywood continueth to rule the world (which sometimes annoys me more than at other times), and b) Annie Proulx's fic is slashy while Breakfast on Pluto is not.
Why am I talking about both these films in the same post? Perhaps because they're the two films I've seen most recently in the cinema. But also because they share, in the wider sense, a theme: both are based on published texts (although I have not read Patrick McCabe's autobiographical book); both are about men who like men; both are about men who don't fit into the society they're born into; both have pretty actors in them. Both warm the slasher's heart because we slashers -- or maybe I should say: I slasher -- will take our men-on-men love wherever we can find it. It's kind of pure and undistilled here on LJ in ficform but the big cinema screen adds a lush sensuality and why not take my men in distilled, cocktail-mixed, shaken-and-stirred form as well as in the pure variety?
Anyway, Breakfast on Pluto and why I liked it, and how it does some things better than Brokeback Mountain:
( Why I liked BoP )
Why am I talking about both these films in the same post? Perhaps because they're the two films I've seen most recently in the cinema. But also because they share, in the wider sense, a theme: both are based on published texts (although I have not read Patrick McCabe's autobiographical book); both are about men who like men; both are about men who don't fit into the society they're born into; both have pretty actors in them. Both warm the slasher's heart because we slashers -- or maybe I should say: I slasher -- will take our men-on-men love wherever we can find it. It's kind of pure and undistilled here on LJ in ficform but the big cinema screen adds a lush sensuality and why not take my men in distilled, cocktail-mixed, shaken-and-stirred form as well as in the pure variety?
Anyway, Breakfast on Pluto and why I liked it, and how it does some things better than Brokeback Mountain:
( Why I liked BoP )