Two movies, different stories, same genre but still opposite categories.
Brokeback Mountain and Titanic, both are considered to be great love stories. While the former highlights unconventional homosexual love, the latter depicts love beyond social classes. But something was common in both...
Brokeback Mountain received mixed responses from different sectors of Hollywood. It was a love story that suffered due to the fear of brickbats from society. The lovers had a painful thorn in their chest and were forced to live a complex life. Gay Rights’ forums consider it to be a groundbreaking movie and some rate it as one of the most adorable romantic movies of all time.
Titanic on the other hand, received applauds for everything in the movie. It was clearly the greatest movie of its decade. The love between the rich girl and the poor boy was never so nerve wrecking. Literally, on the edge of life and death. The scene in which the boy dies in his efforts to save the girl in chilling water is convincing enough to make you cry.
But what’s the controversy.... In Hammer High we discuss known and unknown controversies? Don’t we?
Looking at the poster of Brokeback Mountain, the intention is clear. It’s a love story to match the ecstasy of Titanic. May be when the poster-maker drafted the poster he/she had no idea that it resembles the famous Titanic poster, but some where it was definitely there that comes out so lively in the image.
Makers of Titanic never pursued the case, but some where deep; every viewer noticed the resemblance that was so co-incidental. Fortunately, the makers of Brokeback Mountain did justice to the co-incidence.
Written By: Sujoy Ghosh
Brokeback Mountain and Titanic, both are considered to be great love stories. While the former highlights unconventional homosexual love, the latter depicts love beyond social classes. But something was common in both...Brokeback Mountain received mixed responses from different sectors of Hollywood. It was a love story that suffered due to the fear of brickbats from society. The lovers had a painful thorn in their chest and were forced to live a complex life. Gay Rights’ forums consider it to be a groundbreaking movie and some rate it as one of the most adorable romantic movies of all time.
Titanic on the other hand, received applauds for everything in the movie. It was clearly the greatest movie of its decade. The love between the rich girl and the poor boy was never so nerve wrecking. Literally, on the edge of life and death. The scene in which the boy dies in his efforts to save the girl in chilling water is convincing enough to make you cry.
But what’s the controversy.... In Hammer High we discuss known and unknown controversies? Don’t we?
Looking at the poster of Brokeback Mountain, the intention is clear. It’s a love story to match the ecstasy of Titanic. May be when the poster-maker drafted the poster he/she had no idea that it resembles the famous Titanic poster, but some where it was definitely there that comes out so lively in the image.
Makers of Titanic never pursued the case, but some where deep; every viewer noticed the resemblance that was so co-incidental. Fortunately, the makers of Brokeback Mountain did justice to the co-incidence.
Written By: Sujoy Ghosh
3 comments:
Informative... parallels between Brokeback and Titanic are eerie...
hey this article could with posters of both movies...
hey, I dont think the posters have similarities. And the movies are quite too different from each other.
"May be when the poster-maker drafted the poster he/she had no idea that it resembles the famous Titanic poster"
there are similarities. noticed by quite a lot. also has a note in wiki.
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