In his interview On The Geneaology of Ethics, Foucault explains that difference between friendship and a sexual relationship is that “Friendship is Reciprocal, and sexual relationships are not reciprocal: in sexual relations, you can penetrate or you are penetrated.” Lee shows us the penetration immediately, there is no playfulness or shared intimacy in it, it is instantaneous and to the point in showing us who is penetrating and who is getting penetrated. The arguments from both sides (yes, it’s real cowboy sex, or no, it’s too hardcore to be realistic) are heated, but one user sums up the consensus succinctly: “If you can’t put up with a little shit, you have no business being gay.” As filmmaker Annelise Ogaard said in a recent tweet, “Lee meant to confront his audience with the realities of gay sex, not only refusing to sanitize it, but exaggerating the stuff straight people find abject.”
One user even raises the possibility that Jack did douche, he hid behind some bushes or something with a bottle of Summer’s Eve, we just didn’t see that scene, as movies never show the prep work it takes to have anal!
With… beans?) Other points are raised: perhaps Jack had been stretching the area, or perhaps Jack was blessed that night in the fact that Ennis has a very petite penis. Space is given to how long it would have taken Jake Gyllenhaal's character to have had a BM after eating the beans, whether or not his character had IBS, the possibility that Jack had pre-lubed (but with what did he lube, one longs to ask. No foreplay! No lube! A 2014 thread on a forum called Data Lounge called “I find the buttfucking scene from Brokeback Mountain unconvincing” begins “Seriously, they fucked after they had beans for dinner? I saw no evidence that either of them douched their asses first.” With nearly a hundred comments, the thread goes on to discuss the scene and debate the claim.
The movie doesn’t have many sex scenes and this one comes as a shock to the viewer.
Ennis wakes up confused and bolts upright, but Jack insists, hugging him and kissing him briefly before he unbuttons his pants and then suddenly, Jack bends over and, braver than the marines with an ass full of beans, allows Ennis to penetrate him, using only a little spit. It’s in this scene that Jack reaches over and puts Ennis’ arm around himself. When Ennis falls asleep by the fire, Jack wakes up at Ennis’ shivering and tells him to get in the tent. “I think that’s the most I’ve ever said,” says Ennis as the two seem to relax into each other’s company, drinking whiskey. “That’s the most I’ve heard you say in weeks,” says Jack when, over a campfire Ennis begins to open up about his dead parents and his life. Their job is a solitary one, and they’ll be there for months, sleeping in a tent, their only point of outside contact being a once-a-week drop of provisions (mostly beans.) All they have is each other, and the first thirty minutes of the film is a quiet pastoral build to very sudden sex. I don't want no scrubs.The two farmhands, their boss informs them, are going to stay up in the mountains. Kevin isn't here is he? If you don't show up you're going to get sh*t-talked.įranzese: I'm totes Team Richie. I don't know.Īlvarez: Team Richie all the way. Groff: That's the question isn't it? It's really hard. I would love to see us all go to Spain or something really fun like that. I live in New York and it strangely has a similar kind of energy to New York in that it's really frenetic and there's a lot going on.įranzese: I've always been a fan when the facts of life went to Paris. Maybe not right now but it's an incredible city. Some place like, 'Here comes a bus full of gays' and they'd really notice it!īartlett: I’m a huge fan of. Weedman: I do like the idea of going to a little more conservative areas. He's the only character we haven't had a chance to explore any family dynamics yet. That’s my hometown it's where Agustin's hometown too. Mexico with Richie- that would be fun."Īlvarez: Miami. Groff: I would love to do a Richie/Patrick road trip. If you could pick any city in the world for the boys to take a gaycation to where would it be?