This article discusses about the adaptaion of Ang Lee’s film Brokeback Mountain, from the short story writtin by Annie Proulx of the same name. Brokeback Mountain is the first mainstream film explicitly depicting homosexual physical interactions, released in 2005. The film physically expanded the original text by adding multiple heterosexual narrative elements, which provoke heated discussion among scholars and film critics. In this article I point out that the expansive heterosexual plots are not to demonstrate the superiority of heterosexuality but to invite mass straight audience by the universality and ubiquitous appeal of heterosexual love, and also to present a deeper gap between the queerness and the straight: not only the external and violent homophobia in Proulx’s short story but moreover the homosexuals’ deeper internalized homophobia towards themselves.
About the presenterXiaoyi Yuan
Communication