Topic: "Broke Bank Mounting"

[chowhound]

Did anybody else manage to catch Jon Stewart's "Daily Show" last night? The opening section was entitled "Broke Bank Mounting" which was about the mounting debt crisis in the US.

However, the visual accompanying it was a variant of the poster for Brokeback Mountain - the one with Ennis in a white hat looking one way and Jack in a black hat looking another. As soon as this visual appeared there was plenty of appreciative laughter and applause from the audience.

What I find of interest here is that Brokeback Mountain has clearly entered the general consciousness so thoroughly that even after five years a play on the title and the accompanying poster can bring instant recognition. I'm not sure that can be said of many movies.

The faces in the original poster, of course, had been replaced by two others in the Daily Show's variant. The first, wearing the white hat, was clearly President Obama but I wasn't sure who was wearing the black hat? Was that John Boehner?

[rdx]

However, the visual accompanying it was a variant of the poster for Brokeback Mountain - the one with Ennis in a white hat looking one way and Jack in a black hat looking another. As soon as this visual appeared there was plenty of appreciative applause from the audience.

Thanks for the interesting information, chowhound. I, obviously, couldn't catch the show, but in general I'd say that some universally themed films just become cultural icons and they start to live life of their own. BBM is definitely one of those films.

A brief description by a German journalist [see the bottom of the message]:
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[myprivatejack]

What I find of interest here is that Brokeback Mountain has clearly entered the general consciousness so thoroughly that even after five years a play on the title and the accompanying poster can bring instant recognition. I'm not sure that can be said of many movies.

First things first,thank you for this interesting information,chowhound ¡ Yes,IMO you're completely right,in that our movie is and will be one of the so called "classical of our times",no matter how many years have passed.For good or for bad,because not everybody has understood it and accept it,it has marked an after and a before in the way of introducing homosexuality in a mainstream movie.And it has moved a lot of consciences and it will move them for futures generations.BBM forever ¡