That is so gay
I don't know what it is about Brokeback Mountain, but it has really found a niche in on-set slang. The two pictures I've worked on most recently have featured strong male/male relationships (best friends in one, brothers in the other). And every time there's a "moment" between the two male characters, somebody mutters "....brokeback mountain.....". Once, the two brothers were hugging, and it was a tearful reunion, and they were hugging for a loooong time but the director wasn't calling cut so we were all waiting until he got what he was looking for, when suddenly our bearded brother with the Middle Eastern accent goes, "What is this, some kind of Brokeback Mountain shit?" and everyone cracks up.
Brokeback Mountain also gets invoked when somebody asks for a man-maker, which is what you call an apple box when you use it to make somebody taller. (An apple box can also become a grip-to-ground connector when you sit on it, and is a knitting-posture-enhancing height.)
I haven't seen Brokeback Mountain. I'm not a fan of Ang Lee, not the Wedding Banquet or the Ice Storm or the Hulk or Crouching Tiger. I appreciate that he works in many different genres, but I'll stick with William Wyler. Or, you know, Anthony Mann. Or lots of other directors who are multi-trick ponies who know how to pace things better and how to use a camera better.
But I guess when there's a sort of lesbian undertone to things, nobody goes "....the children's hour....". Or when somebody embarks on a destructive vendetta, you don't hear "...winchester '73....".
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