Re: 'Brokeback' Truck
- From: "Jessica V." <jeileenbuker@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 29 Mar 2006 16:18:19 -0800
t-13@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Good grief, this kid won the lottery.
Good for you kid.
I hope he does fantastically with the truck sale. My job with benefits
is working in the accounting office of a private college; I'd love to
see more kids with the creativity, drive and ambition to find a way to
pay their own way.
Thanks for sharing the article T.
Jessica
Student Loads College Hopes on 'Brokeback' Truck
By Danny Glenwright, Reuters
TORONTO (March 28) - A half-ton pick-up truck used in the award-winning
gay Western "Brokeback Mountain" is up for sale, and the seller, a
Canadian high school student, hopes the proceeds will help pay his way
through college.
Matthew Kennedy said he bought the black, 1950 GMC truck last year at
an auction of vehicles used in the movie because he liked its looks,
and only decided to sell when he realized the amount of attention the
film was garnering.
"The movie was getting a lot bigger and I thought I could sell it and
put away the money for school," he said.
Kennedy's eBay description of the vehicle says it was driven by Jack
Twist, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, when he meets Ennis Del Mar, played
by Heath Ledger, at the start of the film.
Bidding has reached $15,000 so far, almost double the $8,000 starting
price, fueled by the ties to the film.
he movie, centering on the furtive love affair between two cowboys, was
shot in the Alberta foothills, south of Calgary.
"The only thing I knew about the movie was that it was being filmed in
my area and it was a cowboy movie," he said.
Murray Ord, executive producer at Alberta Film Entertainment, said it's
standard procedure to sell film gear post-production. "Whether it be
furniture, props, anything we purchased, we try to recoup the cost," he
said.
Murray Pomerance, a sociologist and author of several books about
cinema compared the pickup truck with items such as Dorothy's shoes
from "The Wizard of Oz" and prosthetic masks from "Star Trek."
"With certain films that are distinctive in one way or another...this
desire to imbed oneself in the context of the film is huge," he said.
"We're actually taking the truck and marketing it. Young people want to
play at being characters...they're going to want to drive that
truck...it's the ultimate way to play the game."
Bidding at
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item-4625292939, closes on
Thursday, March 30 at 11 p.m. EST.
03/27/06 17:31 ET
original article
http://articles.news.aol.com/movies/article.adp?id=20060327173309990015
ebay auction
http://tinyurl.com/k7eed
T.
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