I've seen the presentation. The thesis is that Dante wouldn't fit in Fight Club because he doesn't conform to the traditional definition of what the West viewed as cool. The Brokeback Mountain thing is presented as joke along the lines of "if you were to picture Dante in a Western movie, THIS is what he would be in" and then the presenter uses that as the entire reasoning behind why they had to reinvent the character.Okay, it is getting really hard to keep up with all that, so let me just state a few points from my own view.
That presentation was NOT that A was superior to B. I cant understand how this gets repeated again and again and again. Back then, where those images first got posted on GAF, a few posters kept telling the people to just watch the presentation, and how the presentation was not just those pictures, but much more than that, but it got largely ignored. Basically, as far as I understand this, there is a huge difference between being an easygoing (no matter your sexual preference) cowboy who does not have a stake in the combat, and between someone who has an angsty attitude, does not feel they belong (remember that Dante cutting himself picture? Most of that got shafted inside the game, to be honest, and got turned into a simple origin story). This is not a "A >>> B" approach, but rather shifting the protagonist to be more like B, not A. Not a judgment.
Is this truly a devious plan of mine to belittle the evils of NT? I honestly do not think so. What would I gain with that?
That presentation is effectively "we re-imagined Dante because the old one comes off as too gay"