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Aku cuma baca The Shipping News (I think she won Pulitzer for this book not BM). Uniques style. But dull as donkey. |
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Reply #2 pessoa's post
haah untuk BM..memang dullas donkey pun..but..juz tengok hasil kayra die..
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Koleksi saya oleh penulis ni ai -lah
THE SHIPPING NEWS
POSTACRDS
HEART SONGS
CLOSE RANGE
lama dulu baca shipping news... but stopped 3/4 way... not because i find it dull but because other books keep on intruding...
brokeback mountain originally appeared in NEW YORKER dan di masukkan dalam collection of stories in 'close range'..
saya baca dua malam lepas mainly because of all the news about the ang lee moview winning globe award and all that...actually quite a good story...but i can't relate to it... don't understand this homosexual stuff... |
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At close range with Annie Proulx
Pulitzer prize-winning writer shares insights in short story, film adaptation of 'Brokeback Mountain.'
By Matthew Testa
12.7.05
As brisk ticket sales to Saturday's screenings of "Brokeback Mountain" and related events suggest, not even Teton County is totally immune to being star struck. Although in this case, the buzz seems well justified, as none other than Director Ang Lee ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") is expected to be the Jackson Hole Film Institute's guest of honor. "Brokeback"-related events start Friday evening with a forum on what it's like for men and women of alternative sexual orientations to grow up or live in Wyoming, and continue with screenings and Hollywood-type parties on Saturday.
"The phones have been ringing off the hook," said Todd Rankin of the JHFI, the local arts nonprofit that scored the special screening for the valley, and the group that will reap the proceeds from the event. Film-fanatics have been calling from throughout Wyoming and from as far away as Boise. "We'll be sold out," he predicted.
The film "Brokeback Mountain" originated as a short story by Wyoming author E. Annie Proulx, whose Pulitzer prize-winning novel "The Shipping News" was also adapted to the screen. The story appears in Proulx's first of two collections of Wyoming tales, "Close Range," and is considered by many critics to be the book's standout piece. In this interview, filmmaker Matthew Testa asks the author about living and writing in Wyoming, her thoughts on the story, the movie, and the controversy surrounding the film.
Planet Jackson Hole: How did you come to write "Brokeback Mountain"? What inspired the story?
Annie Proulx: "Brokeback Mountain" was/is one of a number of stories examining rural Western social situations. I was trained as an historian (French Annales school), and most of my writing is focused on rural North American hinterlands. The story was not "inspired," but the result of years of subliminal observation and thought, eventually brought to the point of writing. As I remarked in a 1999 interview with The Missouri Review, Place and history are central to the fiction I write, both in the broad, general sense and in detailed particulars. Rural North America, regional cultures, the images of an ideal and seemingly attainable world the characters cherish in their long views despite the rigid and difficult circumstances of their place and time interest me and are what I write about. I watch for the historical skew between what people have hoped for and who they thought they were and what befell them.
PJH: Did it surprise you that, of all the pieces in your Wyoming collection, "Close Range," it was the story of a hidden love affair between cowboys that was adapted into a major Hollywood film?
AP: Diana Ossana, Larry McMurtry's writing partner, read the story in The New Yorker shortly after it was published eight years ago and urged Larry to read it. They both wanted to make a film from it even though the material was strong and risky. They optioned the story from their own pockets, most unusual for screenwriters. I was doubtful that it actually would get to the big screen, and, in fact, it took years before it did.
PJH: I think it's clear to anyone who reads "Brokeback Mountain" that above all it's a wrenching, starcrossed love story. It is about two cowboys, but it seems inaccurate to call it gay literature. How do you feel about the film being assailed as gay agitprop emerging from liberal Hollywood? Did you ever intend for the story to be controversial?
AP: Excuse me, but it is NOT a story about "two cowboys." It is a story about two inarticulate, confused Wyoming ranch kids in 1963 who have left home and who find themselves in a personal sexual situation they did not expect, understand nor can manage. The only work they find is herding sheep for a summer |
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by the way...baru je dapat pinjam close range...nak bace semua short stories dalam ni..memang menarik..some of my friends kat cn recommend me bace...memang menarik la..hehehe...thx for the info tambahn guys..sekrang dah semangat nak baca novel...
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Post time 25-1-2006 06:08 AM
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Post time 25-1-2006 08:36 PM
