As I mentioned previously in my Blog, I was bored Sunday night and watched a good part of the Oscars. As they did with most of the nominees, any time Brokeback Mountain was up for an award, they showed a short clip of the film. It was on one of these clips that it hit me!
These guys weren't "cowboys," they were herding sheep!!!
Now as far back as I can remember in Western novels and movies, cowboys and sheep herders hated each other (and now I know why!) and had range wars and sh*t!
So, Willy Nelson be damned, at least John Wayne, Roy Rodgers, Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy, Tom Mix, and I can all sleep better.
Come to think of it, its probably the sidekicks, Tonto, Gabby, Jingles and Pancho, who'll lie easier in their bedrolls tonight with the news, lol!
Gay shepherds... Hell, it figures...
Nice try. Excepting, of course, the fact that the sheepherding portion of the movie was about two months out of the twenty years featured. After that, one fellow went on to rodeo and sell tractors. The other became a ranch hand.
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