Cartman Tells The Future

Brokeback Mountain led the way with seven Golden Globe nominations. I'm sure it's a fine movie -- for example, the cast is terrific. I think Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal would have been fine choices to play Anakin Skywalker if George Lucas hadn't lost his brain when casting the most important role in his second trilogy.

But that's an aside to this note -- Parker and Stone essentially predicted this in a classic South Park episode years ago. The National Ledger has the details...

The movie is adapted from a story by Annie Proulx and stars Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as love-struck cowboys whose forbidden affair begins in 1963 and ends 20 years later. The director described the low-budget indie flick, shot in Canada to save money, as a story of love against adversity.

The AP describes the as being full of sweeping vistas, lonesome men, bucking broncos and smoldering campfires. It also has sex scenes between two men whose lives are changed, disturbed and entwined after being hired to tend sheep for a summer in Wyoming.

Actual South Park dialogue, according to Rusty, describing the South Park Film Festival:

Cartman: No dude, independent films are those black and white hippie
movies. They're always about gay cowboys eating pudding.

Wendy: No they're not. Independent films are produced outside the Hollywood
system. They're movies without all the glitch and glamour of Hollywood.

Cartman: Well, you show one independent film that isn't about gay cowboys
eating pudding.

And to think, Team America didn't even get a Best Picture nomination last year.