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Brokeback Mountain: How Two Stories Changed History

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“Brokeback Mountain” & “Call Me By Your Name”: How Two Stories Changed History

In a modern world in which intercommunication is at the tip of a finger, ideas can be shared, understood, and implemented in the blink of an eye. The world’s current accessibility has allowed societal opinion to change rapidly, with external influences on culturally sensitive topics. Without this communication, we would not be nearly so intellectually connected and advanced a global community as we are now, though we still have a long way to go. One of the greatest ways to have documented that societal journey has been through media. Since the first film was created in 1888, people have narrated, entertained, and shared ideas with one another through their art: film. Film has been used to tell stories to the …show more content…

Though it is a national shame to have citizens fighting to be treated equally even still today, with great struggles come great narratives. In the recent years of queer activism and violence, film and media has really flourished in telling the stories of those queer voices, as well as inspiring art for the masses, queer or straight. In more recent years, Hollywood has seen a rise in queer-centric cinema as cries for inclusion grow. Two extremely notable films in this category of politicized queer media is “Brokeback Mountain” (a 2005 film by Ang Lee) and “Call Me By Your Name” (a 2017 film directed by Luca Guadagnino.) Both these films were based off another text, (either a novel or short story) and both went on to win the Best Adaptive Screenplay Award at that year's Oscars. Based on the 2007 novel of the same name by André Aciman, “Brokeback Mountain” stars Jake Gyllenhall and the late Heath Ledger, telling the story of Jack and Ennis’ secret romance as they herd sheep in the mountains of 1960’S Wyoming. This film never shies away from describing the environment these two men were in during

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