Ang Lee Going Gay Again

by Kasey McDonald April 24, 2008 1:45 PM
Ang Lee Going Gay Again

Dark Horizons is reporting that Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee will once again helm a movie portraying a gay main character, with the fairly awesome headline "Ang Lee Gay Again With Woodstock." The flick, fully titled Taking Woodstock and adapted from a 2007 Elliot Tiber book, tells the story of an in-the-closet artist who is head of the Chamber of Commerce in his small town. The town holds a yearly permit to hold summer music concerts, which he grants to the then-low key Woodstock festival to hold on his farmer neighbor's lawn. In addition to the Chamber job, the closeted main character also helps his Old World Jewish parents run their resort motel in the Catskill Mountains. (And yes, I'm actively refraining from making the requisite Dirty Dancing joke that immediately springs to mind due to my deep and abiding (and yes, adolescent) love for that movie.)

Lee, whose previous western projects have also included the less-than-successful Hulk and The Ice Storm, took his first stab at English language film in 1995 with Emma Thompson's excellent Sense and Sensibility. And while the men of that film wore a lot of tight pants and ascots, all the relationships were heterosexual in nature. It's about time, some would say, that Hollywood started telling more original gay stories, as they can't seem to stop remaking even the crappy straight ones. And with several Oscar nominations now under his belt, Ang Lee may be just the man to do it. Now is the time to start your office pools on just how many media articles will be released with headlines similar to this one's. I'm going to go with: Lots.

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