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Originally posted by AppleOnYa:
So are you saying that audiences are somehow more comfortable with the eccentric, more flamboyant type of homosexual as Capote was (or the comical one played by Nathan Lane in 'Birdcage)...rather than the fictional cowboys in love depicted in Brokeback Mtn?
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Originally posted by AppleOnYa:
But aside from that, do you truly feel that the cowboys in love theme is the reason for it not winning Best Picture over Crash?
I think it can be a major reason.

I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth (Blanche/A streetcar named desire)