Hmmhmm with gladiator the producer said listen, look at this first before you even read anything. And he showed me this painting. It was the corner of clearly a coliseum. You have part armored, standing over a slave whos about to get killed. Hes looking up for permission at a guy whos clearly nehro whos doing that. In other words, kill him. I said, ill do it. He went, you havent read the script. I said i dont care. I think we can get this right. Lets do it. What is it going to take . Are you not entertained . Is this not why you are here . And listened to half a dozen vocals with ridley about russell. I thought he was really a raw talent who was, i think, just discovering the power he had. Slave remove your helmet and tell me your name. Hes marvelous. Russells big. That heart in his voice. My name is maximus desimusberidious. Loyal servant to the true Emperor Marcus ohryious. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife, and i will have my vengeance in this life or the next. He
mountain was one of the first movies that felt like a mainstream hollywood romance. i ve got to go. i was so frustrated he kept calling it the gay cowboy movie. it was not that. it was a haunting, beautiful, tragic love story of two men who essentially were just trying to exist. it s heartbreaking before you even get to the end, because you re rooting for them and jack seems to be willing to try in a way that innis delmar just can t. i wish i knew how to quit you. why don t you why don t you just let me be. huh? people ask me all the time. what was the theme of brokeback ? i said it s summed up in one word and that word is compassion. [ sobbing ] whatevers were i
delmar. nice to know you anise delmar. when i first read the story brokeback mountain i knew it was powerful. i felt it would up end many people s view of two young men being in love and the constraints and the challenges that they would have. one-shot thing going on here. it s nobody s business but ours. you know i ain t queer. me neither. a lot of the gay movies up to that point were either kind of cult movies that existed in this gay universe that made gay people seem weird or evil or suspect or kinky, and brokeback