Fly Fishing in Wyoming

Brokeback Mountain seems to be doing very good in theaters, even with a limited number of screens. It also picked up 7 Golden Globe nominations.

I haven't seen it yet but I know a little about it's story. It appears to be a well made, beautifully shot movie by a well respected director using a universal theme. What is so audacious to me about the project is that it's set in an area of the country where the traditional apperance of manhood is taken very, very seriously. I know, I worked there for a couple of years.

Maybe that dichotomy is integral to the plot, I won't understand that until it's released on DVD. But the cowboys-in-love theme is resonating with a substantial number of movie goers which is a surprising and interesting thing in and of itself. You would think that a tale of hard humpin' hombres of the purple sage would be avoided like the plague in these days of super manliness and war and codpieces on the flight deck. I'm sure the bible thumpers are panning it with crazed rightousness. But there's no denying the popularity of the first gay cowboy love story starring A list actors.