Essay plan brokeback mountain

Plan essay for how will different audiences react to brokeback mountain.

How would different audiences respond to brokeback mountain

Introduction

 

Depends on sexuality, homosexuals spectator more likely to be aligned, heterosexual spectators may struggle to relate to the film.

Butler

Butler says gender is a performance, a social construct in the mind in the way you act, talk and dress, not something you are instantly born with.

Brokeback mountain shows two men struggling with their hypermasculine roles as Cowboys with families. Although they are both homosexual inside.- closeted.- when Ennis has sex with his wife from behind after his relationship with Jack.

Jack is the feminine one in the relationship, Ennis is the masculine.

Jacks wife is more manly than him- has reversed gender roles

Homosexual spectator would align with Jack, since even though he can't openly express his homosexuality due to the society of the films time period, he is much more comfortable with his homosexuality and femininity than Ennis. Heterosexual spectator is more likely to align with Ennis because Ennis gender role in his head is that he is a masculine straight man which they can align with but his relationship with Jack obviously changes this and causes inner conflict for Ennis. 

I'm not a queer y know example

Rucus

Rucus says that a homosexual spectator has to adopt the position of a woman in a film to get any pleasure from it. 

Examples

Binoculars looking at Jack and Ennis wrestling- literal voyuerism

Naked showering but Jack is out of focus and Ennis isn't looking at him, the men aren't sexually objectified

Jack is feminine in relationship- loud, playful, wrestling, more emotional- reflected in his later marriage

Ennis is masculine- quiet, detached, aggressive, - when angered, lashes out, - Jack, man who calls him an asshole when he crosses the street, his wife

Homosexual spectator may not align with the film as much as they would if they viewed the film from a queer gaze perspective. They can still get pleasure from the film by empathising with the homosexual relationship from their own personal experiences. Instead, a heterosexual male spectator may find that they align with Ennis since they may find they have similar personalities to him. A female heterosexual spectator may identify with Jack in the same way.'