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The Movie & Story => AP Short Story & Screenplay => Topic started by: Wooski on Jan 02, 2006, 05:58 AM
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http://www.sltrib.com/entertainment/ci_3360447
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AP: What did you think of the portrayal by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhall?
Proulx: I thought they were magnificent, both of them. Jake Gyllenhall's Jack Twist . . . wasn't the Jack Twist that I had in mind when I wrote this story. The Jack that I saw was jumpier, homely. But Gyllenhall's sensitivity and subtleness in this role is just huge. The scenes he's in have a kind of quicksilver feel to them. Heath Ledger is just almost really beyond description as far as I'm concerned. He got inside the story more deeply than I did.
WOW...and coming from Proulx herself!!!!!!!!
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Great interview with Annie Proulx.
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WOW...and coming from Proulx herself!!!!!!!!
Wow, indeed! It's hard to imagine a higher accolade than that. Ang Lee and the entire cast and crew must be bursting with pride, and rightfully so, at what they've accomplished. Go Brokeback Go!
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http://www.sltrib.com/entertainment/ci_3360447
wooski,
Just got this from the Salt Lake paper which this website takes you to:
"The content item you have requested is no longer available."
Do you know how I cd get ahold of the interview? Maybe you downloaded it?
Here's hoping. Thanks in advance,
jason
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AP: What did you think of the portrayal by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhall?
Proulx: I thought they were magnificent, both of them. Jake Gyllenhall's Jack Twist . . . wasn't the Jack Twist that I had in mind when I wrote this story. The Jack that I saw was jumpier, homely. But Gyllenhall's sensitivity and subtleness in this role is just huge. The scenes he's in have a kind of quicksilver feel to them. Heath Ledger is just almost really beyond description as far as I'm concerned. He got inside the story more deeply than I did.
WOW...and coming from Proulx herself!!!!!!!!
wooski,
Ffog, Wonder if you cd help me: Just got this from the Salt Lake paper which the website wooski posted as the source for the Proulx interview:
"The content item you have requested is no longer available."
Do you know how I cd get ahold of the interview? Maybe you downloaded it?
Here's hoping. Thanks in advance,
jason
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AP: What did you think of the portrayal by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhall?
Proulx: I thought they were magnificent, both of them. Jake Gyllenhall's Jack Twist . . . wasn't the Jack Twist that I had in mind when I wrote this story. The Jack that I saw was jumpier, homely. But Gyllenhall's sensitivity and subtleness in this role is just huge. The scenes he's in have a kind of quicksilver feel to them. Heath Ledger is just almost really beyond description as far as I'm concerned. He got inside the story more deeply than I did.
WOW...and coming from Proulx herself!!!!!!!!
wooski,
Ffog, Wonder if you cd help me: Just got this from the Salt Lake paper which the website wooski posted as the source for the Proulx interview:
"The content item you have requested is no longer available."
Do you know how I cd get ahold of the interview? Maybe you downloaded it?
Here's hoping. Thanks in advance,
jason
I'll have a look x
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AP: What did you think of the portrayal by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhall?
Proulx: I thought they were magnificent, both of them. Jake Gyllenhall's Jack Twist . . . wasn't the Jack Twist that I had in mind when I wrote this story. The Jack that I saw was jumpier, homely. But Gyllenhall's sensitivity and subtleness in this role is just huge. The scenes he's in have a kind of quicksilver feel to them. Heath Ledger is just almost really beyond description as far as I'm concerned. He got inside the story more deeply than I did.
WOW...and coming from Proulx herself!!!!!!!!
wooski,
Ffog, Wonder if you cd help me: Just got this from the Salt Lake paper which the website wooski posted as the source for the Proulx interview:
"The content item you have requested is no longer available."
Do you know how I cd get ahold of the interview? Maybe you downloaded it?
Here's hoping. Thanks in advance,
jason
I'll have a look x
I emailed the news paper, and am now waiting to hear from the people who deal with archives..let's wait and see x
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I just clicked on the link and it is there? Interesting article.Anyway,saved it and here it is.
Jennis.x
Annie Proulx on love, homophobia and cowboys
It took the 'Brokeback Mountain' author time to get inside the minds of Twist and Del Mar
By Sandy Cohen
The Associated Press
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Pulitzer prize winning writer Annie Proulx, on her property in Vershire, Vt., wrote the short story, "Brokeback Mountain," which was made into a movie by the same name.
LOS ANGELES - Annie Proulx figured no magazine would touch her short story ''Brokeback Mountain,'' the tale of two Wyoming cowboys whose romance is so intense it sometimes leaves them black and blue.
But The New Yorker published it in 1997, and it went on to win an O. Henry prize and a National Magazine Award. Now the movie version is a leading Oscar contender, with starring performances from Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist.
In a telephone conversation from her home in Wyoming, Proulx, a 70-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner, declined to discuss the origins of her two roughneck lovers, citing an upcoming book written with screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. Instead, she spoke about homophobia, her fascination with rural life and the process of making Twist and Del Mar live and breathe.
AP: You've said "Brokeback Mountain" began as an examination of homophobia in the land of the pure, noble cowboy.
Proulx: Everything I write has a rural situation, and the Wyoming stories - in the collection Close Range, which includes "Brokeback Mountain" - did contain a number of those social-observation stories, what things are like for people there.
AP: Were you trying to accomplish something specific with this story?
Proulx: No. It was just another story when I started writing it. I had no idea it was going to even end up on the screen. I didn't even think it was going to be published when I was first working on it.
AP: You've said this story took twice as long to write as a novel. Why?
Proulx: Because I had to imagine my way into the minds of two uneducated, rough-spoken, uninformed young men, and that takes some doing if you happen to be an elderly female person.
AP: How did you feel about seeing it on the big screen?
Proulx: It was really quite a shock because I had, had nothing to do with the film. So for 18 months, I had no idea what was happening. I had no idea if it was going to be good or frightful, . . . terribly lost or sentimentalized or what. When I saw it in September, I was astonished. The thing that happened while I was writing the story eight years ago is that from thinking so much about the characters and putting so much time into them, they became embedded in my consciousness. They became as real to me as real, walk-around, breathe-oxygen people. It took a long time to get these characters out of my head so I could get on with work. Then when I saw the film, they came rushing back. It was extraordinary, just wham, they were with me again.
AP: What did you think of the portrayal by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhall?
Proulx: I thought they were magnificent, both of them. Jake Gyllenhall's Jack Twist . . . wasn't the Jack Twist that I had in mind when I wrote this story. The Jack that I saw was jumpier, homely. But Gyllenhall's sensitivity and subtleness in this role is just huge.
The scenes he's in have a kind of quicksilver feel to them. Heath Ledger is just almost really beyond description as far as I'm concerned. He got inside the story more deeply than I did.
AP: Would you characterize the story as groundbreaking?
Proulx: I hope that it is going to start conversations and discussions, that it's going to awaken in people an empathy for diversity, for each other and the larger world. I'm really hoping that the idea of tolerance will come through discussions about the film. People tend to walk out of the theater with a sense of compassion, which I think is very fine.
AP: Have you gotten any response from gay organizations?
Proulx: No. When the story was first published eight years ago, I did expect that. But there was a deafening silence. What I had instead were letters from individuals, gay people, some of them absolutely heartbreaking. And over the years, those letters have continued . . . Perhaps the most touching ones are from fathers, who say, "Now I understand the kind of hell my son went through." It's enormously wonderful to know that you've touched people, that you've truly moved them.
AP: Is that why you write?
Proulx: It's not why I write. . . . I wrote it from my long-term stance of trying to describe sections of rural life, individuals in particular rural situations and places, well, first the places. That it came out this way, it just happened to touch certain nerves in people. I think this country is hungry for this story.
AP: Why?
Proulx: Because it's a love story and there's hardly much love around these days. I think people are sick of divisiveness, hate-mongering, disasters, war, loss and need and want a reminder that sometimes love comes along that is strong and permanent, and that it can happen to anyone.
AP: Do you think straight men will watch this movie?
Proulx: They are watching this movie. Of course, why wouldn't they watch it? . . . My son-in-law, who prides himself on being a Bud-drinking, NRA-member redneck, liked the movie so much he went to it twice. Straight men are seeing it and they're not having any problem with it. The only people who would have problems with it are people who are very insecure about themselves and their own sexuality and who would be putting up a defense, and that's usually young men who haven't figured things out yet.
http://www.sltrib.com/entertainment/ci_3360447
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Thanks Jennis ;)
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I just clicked on the link and it is there? Interesting article.Anyway,saved it and here it is.
Jennis.x
Thanks Jennis!!!
I revel in the perspective Annie brings to this world.
jason
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Does anyone have any idea when the book will be out that Annie mentioned????????????????/ Sounds like it might give us a little more description of the story - I'm just now rereading the story and have noticed some things that got past me before - for example - "I heard you were in Riverton" - Jack's wording on the postcard - that didn't sink in before - who did he hear it from? - had he in fact been looking for Ennis during those four years?? and there are other things that I had missed as well - like how strong Ennis' feeling toward Jack were even in the beginning. Still gets to me even after all this time though.
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Does anyone have any idea when the book will be out that Annie mentioned????????????????/ Sounds like it might give us a little more description of the story - I'm just now rereading the story and have noticed some things that got past me before - for example - "I heard you were in Riverton" - Jack's wording on the postcard - that didn't sink in before - who did he hear it from? - had he in fact been looking for Ennis during those four years?? and there are other things that I had missed as well - like how strong Ennis' feeling toward Jack were even in the beginning. Still gets to me even after all this time though.
Bob,which book?Close Range:Wyoming Stories?That is filled with short stories,including Brokeback Mountain.It's already published and has been for quite a while.I think it was first published 98/99.Hope that helps?
Jennis.x
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Jennis the following text from the Salt Lake Tribune interview: "In a telephone conversation from her home in Wyoming, Proulx, a 70-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner, declined to discuss the origins of her two roughneck lovers, citing an upcoming book written with screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana." Kinda leads one to believe that the three are writing a book together which is to be published in the near future. Don't you think???
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Jennis the following text from the Salt Lake Tribune interview: "In a telephone conversation from her home in Wyoming, Proulx, a 70-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner, declined to discuss the origins of her two roughneck lovers, citing an upcoming book written with screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana." Kinda leads one to believe that the three are writing a book together which is to be published in the near future. Don't you think???
Oh,sorry Bob,i thought she was referring to the screenplay?But that's interesting if it's a new one.I don't know anything about it,but i will keep a look out,
Jennis
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Jennis, you can bet I'll be looking for that book. One more item for the obsessed (me). Now if they would only come out with a DVD version that has deleted scenes....LOL
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Jennis, you can bet I'll be looking for that book. One more item for the obsessed (me). Now if they would only come out with a DVD version that has deleted scenes....LOL
I can't help thinking she was referring to the screenplay though? Well,you never know.Come christmas,who knows what might appear dvd wise ;)
Jennis.x
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Jennis, you can bet I'll be looking for that book. One more item for the obsessed (me). Now if they would only come out with a DVD version that has deleted scenes....LOL
I can't help thinking she was referring to the screenplay though? Well,you never know.Come christmas,who knows what might appear dvd wise ;)
Jennis.x
Jennis, Annie couldn't have been talking about the screenplay. One, she had nothing what so ever to do with the screenplay. Two, the screenplay had been written 7 or 8 years earlier. And three, the movie was finished and playing in theaters. How then could it have been the screenplay? Unless, of course, you mean she is working on the screenplay of another movie with Larry and Diana.
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Jennis, you can bet I'll be looking for that book. One more item for the obsessed (me). Now if they would only come out with a DVD version that has deleted scenes....LOL
I can't help thinking she was referring to the screenplay though? Well,you never know.Come christmas,who knows what might appear dvd wise ;)
Jennis.x
Jennis, Annie couldn't have been talking about the screenplay. One, she had nothing what so ever to do with the screenplay. Two, the screenplay had been written 7 or 8 years earlier. And three, the movie was finished and playing in theaters. How then could it have been the screenplay? Unless, of course, you mean she is working on the screenplay of another movie with Larry and Diana.
She is named on the cover of BBM Story to Screenplay.It says Annie,Diana and Larry.That actual book was only published December 2005 and this interview was originally published January 2nd 2006.So that is why i thought she was referring to it?Who knows?
Jennis.x
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Just to add.Annie wrote an essay in the screenplay book and that is why she is credited with that and the story.The interview was originally published Jan 2nd,but she would of done it before then.So i still think it's most likely to be the screenplay.
J.x
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wow that was a great interview thanxs for sharing