Brokeback Mountain Post

The main characters in Brokeback Mountain, Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, play roles as two young men who develop a sexual relationship with each other. Heath Ledger also plays in Casanovo as a man who is having an affair, and is said to be much of a feminist. Jake Gyllenhaal played a role as a Marine in the film Jarhead. The two roles Heath and Jake both play in their other films are stereoytpical manly ones, but their roles in Broekback Mountain are the opposite. In Brokeback Mountain, they are playing roles that are portrayed as not so manly because they are acting as homosexuals; many see same-sex relationships as wrong, and that men and women are only to be sexual with one another, that is why the characters in Brokeback Mountain felt they had to secretly go about the way that they felt because they would be shamed and embarrassed if people knew that they were homosexuals. While filming Brokeback Mountain, Heath Ledger had an affair with the women who played his wife in the actual movie, and Jake Gyllenhaal made it a point to clearly and repeadetly state that he was not actually a homosexual and was just playing one for the film. Since the roles Jake and Heath played in Broekback Mountain were gay characters, their actions outside of the film seem to say that neither of them are very comfortable with playing these roles, and they do not want people to think that they are homosexual in real life, so they felt the need to prove it in some way or another. The roles from their other movies also show that they want to be portrayed as "manly men", and do not want the public to get the wrong picture because if they were seen as gay, accidentially or purposefully, it would bring on bad publicity and nasty rumors.

The reason why many people are so afraid to let out their true sexuality is because we live in such a judgemental world. Just as Jake did not want people to think that he was actually gay, even if he might be or not, he was afraid that he was going to be judged differently. Both him and Heath still took on a lot of heat by having roles in Brokeback Mountain because no matter what actions they took outside the film, their theatrical cahracters would still bring rumors and judgement into the real world. Many are outcasted if seen as gay because most of society was brought up to believe that homosexuality is a sin or it is not the way things are supposed to be. Gays are not able to be enlisted in the military (or if they are found out to be gay), gays are not able to get legally married in most states, gays are shunned or looked down upon as a human malfunction or something of the sort, which all of thsese things is incredibly wrong to pass judgement about. A person is still a person, no matter what gender, and who says that the only way things are supposed to be are oppisite sex relationships? NOBODY Because who says those people are right? ...

Discrimination has taken over. Poeple find anything to discriminate against, leaving only themselves to be liked, which is stupid because everybody is different.