Ughhhhhhhhhh Cowboys

I didn't like this movie the first time I saw it and still don't like it now. I hate cowboys...probably because I was forced to watch awful western movies with my grandpa as a child.

Ennis and Jack looked and acted like the typical cowboys. They were able to handle whatever nature threw at them: bears, hail, snow storms, rain, freezing weather, coyotes. Basically they were the tough, strong, handsome men.... all that is expected from cowboy characters. Throughout the movie each changed the myth of cowboys to be something more realistic while not completely abandoning the cowboy stereotype. The most obvious change to the cowboy myth in the movie is Jack and Ennis being gay and getting together for multiple years. Both Jack and Ennis had his own moment when he broke down and let the audience see his pain and emotions, which is a change from the cowboy myth who are ultra-tough men who have no sissy feelings. Jack challenged the cowboy myth when he traveled to Mexico to get a male prostitute. A true cowboy would never do something against the law like hire a prostitute but at the same time Jack is upholding the pureness of America, like a true cowboy, by having to leave the country to find a prostitute.