Newsweek calls Jake Gyllenhaal's turn in Brokeback Mountain his "most powerful performance ever" and says the movie has "reignited" Heath Ledger's career, adding fuel to the growing Oscar buzz around the film.
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Gyllenhaal, for his part, says Brokeback gives interesting insight into the male psyche:
After seeing the movie, Gyllenhaal says, male reporters will enter a room to interview him and almost always follow the same routine. "They come in and they're all, like, 'I just want you to know I'm straight'," he says, and laughs. If they've been moved by the film, he says, they often rationalize it by saying things like "Well, it's really more of a friendship." No, it isn't. "It's a love story," Gyllenhaal says. "They're two men having sex. There's nothing hidden there."
Meanwhile, producer James Schmaus says the inspiration for the movie's marketing and posters came not from the Western genre, but borrows from the approach taken by romances like Titanic.
He adds that the movie has already broken even through the sale of international distribution rights.
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