How do you compensate for the most anti-climactic sex scene in one of the most hyped films of the year? Throw in the girl from “The Princess Diaries” and make her take her top off after being on screen for all of 10 seconds. But the glory of Anne Hathaway’s gorgeous rack quickly fades as the “Brokeback Mountain” makeup team employs the least convincing aging techniques ever used. Each time Ang Lee wants to show the passage of time, Hathaway’s hair grows several shades lighter and inches higher — though the hair changes are less successful at alerting the audience to the passage of decades and more likely to invoke thoughts like, “Damn, that girl looks bad as a blonde.”
Brokestache Mountain: J. Gyll sports some suspicious looking whiskers in “Brokeback.”
Even worse than peroxide and volume-booster is the mustache tacked on to Jack Twist (gayest name ever) to show his progressing age. But rather than thinking, “Oh, he looks older now,” my first response was, “What, now that he’s gay he has to have a mustache?!” I wish J.Gyll didn’t know how to quit his razor. Jack Nasty indeed!
