The Binary Circumstance

Movies have always had a dual purpose when it comes to reality, they help us imagine new possibilities but at the same time are guilty of creating romanticized images that aren’t real and not attainable, except in a fantasy land, much like religion.

Buzzimage.com shows how they created CGI special effects for various projects including Brokeback Mountain.

You mean all that beautiful scenery and all those sheep weren’t real?

Playback tip: It was too slow to download even with my DSL and the video kept stopping for the download to catch up. Hit the pause button and do something else. It will continue to download. You can start playback when it’s almost downloaded for a seemless, fascinating playback.

There is an online auction of clothing used in the film Brokeback Mountain going on from October 13, 2006 to October 20, 2006. The auction benefits the Human Rights Commission.

You can see and bid on the items here.

Many of the items already have high bids with four days to go before the auction ends.

The Brokeback Mountain parodies continue.

But you’ve never seen anything like this animated version where bunnies recreate the movie in 30-seconds.

I watched Brokeback Mountain for the third time on DVD tonight.

When I see a movie several times, it’s always interesting to me how my impressions change from viewing to viewing. Something always seems to pop out that I hadn’t really paid much attention to before.

This time around I was struck with just how sparse the movie is. Like the scenery, it is full of wide open spaces where there is little or no dialogue. There are long spaces and stretches of silence. I certainly noticed that before but hadn’t realized how it’s in direct contrast to the density of the story. The film covers twenty years of emotional territory in the lives of several characters in the space of a feature length film.

How did they do that?

How did they pack so much story, time and space into a movie with so little dialogue?

In my original review I focused on the dichotomy of the majestic and the desolate. Now that I’ve seen it three times, I was struck more by the dichotomy of the sparse, barren pace and character of the movie against the dense and richly textured character of the story.