Brokeback Mountain Forum @ ennisjack.com
The Movie & Story => AP Short Story & Screenplay => Topic started by: WildCatIsle on May 30, 2011, 03:01 PM
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Annie Proulx on 'Brokeback Mountain' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpCaQSRwdd0#ws)
Melbourne in March 2011
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Annie Proulx on 'Brokeback Mountain' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpCaQSRwdd0#ws)
Melbourne in March 2011
Many thanks, WildcatIsle, for posting this recent video. Much of the material is, by now, fairly well known but it's good to hear it again in Annie's own very distinctive voice.
However, I hadn't realized that Judy Becker - I assume that's the person Annie is referring to when she mentions the "production manager" - had taken so many location shots in Wyoming so that the film could be made to look as though it was in Wyoming and I'd never heard about the late intervention of one of the New York producers who wanted the language altered to make it more "understandable". Heavens be praised that Annie Proulx and Larry McMurtry successfully opposed such a terrible suggestion.
It looks as though AP's Canadian geography is somewhat shaky as she appears to believe that the movie was shot in Saskatchewan rather than Alberta. Let me assure everybody that if the movie had been shot in Saskatchewan, then it would have been very "flat" indeed, as there's scarcely a hill let alone a mountain to be found in that province.
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You're welcome, chowhound :)
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Yes, thank you don WcI!
A longer version of the interview can be found here:
http://wheelercentre.com/videos/video/annie-proulx/ (http://wheelercentre.com/videos/video/annie-proulx/)
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I repeat the thanks,WcI ¡ :) It's more than interesting everything in rapport with our movie... <^(
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You're welcome, MPJ & rdx :)
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Little darlins,
Thursday night, I attended an evening with Annie Proulx, leading off the 2011-22012 season of Portland's Arts & Lectures. A sold out house of over 2500.
In a relaxed and twinkling mood, Annie Proulx spoke for an hour about herself and her writing with an understandable emphasis on a new work under way whose theme is world-wide forest degradation. The loss of chestnuts, elms, butternuts, etc.. Then the microphones were opened up for questioning.
I was first: "Ms. Proulx," I said, "The Laramie Project, the play based on the murder of Matthew Shepard, has become a formidable vehicle against Gay bashing and hatred. I know you have said, unlike Charles Dickens, story telling trumps social issues, but given that Brokeback Mountain changed many lives, brought resolution to long lost love, would you bless a stage version that could be performed in rural colleges and by local theater groups? If not, why not?"
With a big smile, she said at the moment no one except some Finns are interested. Then she looked at me. "If you are in theater, perhaps you can take on Brokeback Mountain!" (What? Me?) She then went on to recall seeing the Laramie Project in the town of Laramie and the reaction of the local people.
After the program I caught her exiting the stage door giving her a post card from Hamley's Saddle Store. "In honor Ennis Del Mar," I said. (The catalog was the only thing Ennis liked to read.) "Why I didn't know Hamleys was still around," she said grinning like the cheshire cat. "Sure is," I said. "Over in Pendleton. Love Brokeback Mountain. Like to leave copies in motels on top of the Gideon Bibles." We shook hands and she was off.