Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay
by Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana
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Author: Annie Proulx, Diana Ossana, Larry McMurtryEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-11
ISBN: 0743298152
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Scribner
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Book Review: A Companion Piece That's Well Worth It
Summary: 5 Stars
There has been some time and distance since my first introduction to BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN. It was shortly before the limited release date of the film on December 9, 2005. I don't even remember what feature film I had gone that day to see, but I remember the preview of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN vividly. As I walked out of the theater, I made it a point to ask if the film would be coming to that particular location. The manager was standing near by and told me that it would not; that when it was released in our area, it would be most likely in special art theatres. It didn't come to my area until sometime in January, 2006. Before it's arrival, I had read Annie Proulx' short story by the same name four times. It was not only in the collection of short stories CLOSE RANGE: WYOMING STORIES but had also been released in a fifty-five page hardback edition on it's own because it was now a major motion picture.
The first time I saw the film, I already understood the loneliness that existed in Ennis Del Mar's and Jack Twist's lives and what made them latch onto each other that summer on Brokeback Mountain. What I didn't know and was not prepared for was how well the screenplay would enhance the story and fill in the gaps that the story hinted at but left the reader only to imagine. Nor could I know that the actors who played Ennis, Jack, Alma, Lureen, Aguirre, Alma Jr., Fayette and L. D. Newsome, Cassie, and Jack's mother and father would flesh out their characters so well that they would become like real people to me, even more real. The film had a life changing effect on me. I had lied to myself for years believing that I didn't desire or need someone to be in love with, not in the way that Ennis and Jack loved each other. I came away knowing that passion like that is worth it even when you lose as Ennis and Jack did. I've lost count of how many times I've read the story and seen the film especially since I own the DVD and it's magic has not left me still.
I bought the book BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN: STORY TO SCREENPLAY because I wanted the story and screenplay in print together for easier comparison. The three essays by Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry, and Diana Ossana at the end are icing on the cake. The fact that this story became a full length feature is a major miracle and the world is greatly heightened by it.
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