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Standard Issue Podcast

Rated or Dated: Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The "gay cowboy movie" certainly opened the door for a lot of other films, but how does it fare 20 years later? Hankies at the ready as we take another look at  the small story, big landscape romance that was robbed at the Oscars. Don't @ us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, Hannah here, just to say that for reasons, best known to myself, I call Anne Hathaway and Bankcroft in this.

0:10.6

Apologies.

0:19.9

Welcome to Rated or Dated. Hi, Mickey Noonan, squinting wistfully through cigarette smoke at Jen Offord. Hello, Jen.

0:28.4

I'm speaking back to you in a, I can't do an impression of it, a slightly repressed fashion and saying, hello.

0:35.7

What an incredible impression, Jeff.

0:37.9

You're welcome.

0:38.9

You're welcome. Stay tuned, everyone. Stay tuned.

0:40.7

And indeed, Hannah Dunleavy.

0:42.7

Hello, Hannah.

0:43.4

Hello.

0:44.3

For the record, I do not wish to quit either of you.

0:47.8

Hannah, this week's picker, what film did we watch that led to the totally delightful online audience review of. I highly recommend

0:55.8

this movie. It's all I ever wanted out of a movie related to homosexuality. This week we watched

1:03.5

Brokeback Mountain, a neo-western and romantic drama, or as it still gets referred to, 20 years

1:10.7

later, the gay cowboy film.

1:12.8

It's based on a 1997 short story by Annie Pruill and premiered at the Venice Film Festival

1:18.7

this week in 2005, where it won the Golden Lion Prize.

1:23.4

Just a few days after the story's publication, film producer and co-screenwriter Diana Asana

1:28.8

showed it to her long-term collaborator, Larry McMurtry.

1:32.5

I think you should just assume I'm holding up my hands in a heart almost every day I mention it.

1:38.3

The pair approached Prawled to see if she'd let them adapt it into a screenplay.

1:43.0

She agreed, but was of the opinion that it

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