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Why not read the original short story by Annie Proulx?
BBMGrandma:
and I see I've posted this in the wrong thread!! SORRY...sometimes I just 'lose' myself in here....with the wonder of everyone and everything here in our safe place.
Oooopsie...sorry....Nancy
I bought Wyoming Stories just yesterday and I haven't read it yet. Soo...I can't comment on it yet!! I've read BrokeBack Mountain though....a trillion times it seems. And each time...I love it a little bit more. :-*
iristarr:
Jack, so much appreciated your posts on BBM - the film, vs. the story. Many good points raised. I have surely enjoyed the process in which this film engaged me -- the symbols and metaphors, the analyses, the comparisons, the studies of the tiniest, most subtle gestures, glances, words. All of this has been entirely new to me, this intense interest in one particular film, to which I return again and again. Never ever happened before in my life. This afternoon I saw it for the eleventh time, not to check out any particular detail or effect, but just to bask in it, to revel its beauty and sadness. I likened the experience to having a really excellent meal, or a wonderful deep massage, or totally gratifying sex, something one is called back to revisit time after time after time. What a gift it is! And I thank you for contributing to my deepening understanding. Iris
donnaread:
--- Quote from: iristarr on March 18, 2006, 03:48:59 am ---Jack, so much appreciated your posts on BBM - the film, vs. the story. Many good points raised. I have surely enjoyed the process in which this film engaged me -- the symbols and metaphors, the analyses, the comparisons, the studies of the tiniest, most subtle gestures, glances, words. All of this has been entirely new to me, this intense interest in one particular film, to which I return again and again. Never ever happened before in my life. This afternoon I saw it for the eleventh time, not to check out any particular detail or effect, but just to bask in it, to revel its beauty and sadness. I likened the experience to having a really excellent meal, or a wonderful deep massage, or totally gratifying sex, something one is called back to revisit time after time after time. What a gift it is! And I thank you for contributing to my deepening understanding. Iris
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Iris, I know what you mean about never feeling like this about a movie before. It is the same for me. Never have I wanted to sit and just absorb every sound, word, gesture, facial expression....EVERYTHING about his beautiful movie. It is in my heart and has affected my whole being. I almost never buy movies. One I can't afford many, and two I live in a small place, and don't have room for a lot of "stuff", lol, and most of mu stuff is furniture and books! The only two movies I ever bought are AS GOOD AS IT GETS (some homosexual characters, starring Jack Nicholson & Helen Hunt), and FINDING FORRESTER (friendship between a black teenager and a middle aged man played by Sean Connery). Awesome movies that I've watched so much that I know the dialogue, lol. But NOTHING has ever touched me the way BBM has. It haunts my every waking moment...just wish I could dream about it, too, ha ha. I've really enjoyed your posts. Donna
Fla_Tim:
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--- Quote from: Br. Patrick on March 12, 2006, 06:30:30 am --- Is it just me or am I the only one who needed a dictionary to get through Annie's prose?
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I, on my thirtieth reading of BBM, decided to sit in front of my terminal and google all the words and phrases i was unfamiliar with. It was great !! Resistol, Blue Heeler, species of plants, animals etc. It made the story much more compelling.
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I'm with you Patrick, I read the short story last weekend in about 20 minutes (I do read fast), but I found myself rereading certain passages and unsure about the meaning of some words. I thought myself pretty literate too, usually I'm the one asked to proof stuff at work and my partner is constantly calling me to ask him to spell some word he can't get close enough for a spell checker to correct.
I ordered Wyoming Stories, the soundtrack and the making of the movie this week and am looking forward to digging into he other works. Besides falling in love with BBM, I fell in love with her writing style. It is so gritty and real.
Jack_ME:
--- Quote from: BBMGrandma on March 18, 2006, 12:47:23 am ---
OH Jack....how TRULY fortunate you were to have had that openess and love shared between you and your Dad. There are SO many who have never had that experience. It was YOUR initiation of the talk...that did it!! If you hadn't....perhaps you and he would NEVER have known the love between the two of you. Bravo to you Jack!!! What a lovely memory...indeed!! One that I'm sure you'll treasure...always. A REAL 'Alma Jr./Ennis moment for sure!!
Warm HUGS.....Nancy :-*
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Thank you Nancy for your nice comments.
That event with my Dad took place about 25 years ago, but to this day, when I think of it, I can clearly see my Dad's joyous smiling face...and I DO treasure that memory. And I thank God that I was able to understand and act in time. For me that was a real blessing in my life.
I have known friends, other guys, and some gals, who "hated" their parent and the parent died and so these guys are left trapped in that attitude. Of course there are some parents who are truly bad and fully responsible for negative relationships with their offspring, but in my observational experience, many of these troubled relationships are focused on two factors: lack of real communication, and sexual orientation. It takes real work to come to grips with ones own sexual orientation (especially in years past, but I'm sure still today), and then it takes even more work to accept a parent's negative views on that, and to try to get that parent to learn to understand, either that it is no reason to condemn, or that the two CAN have a real loving relationship even if they can never come to agreement on the issue of sexual orientation. But that does take work, and from both individuals.
Jack in Maine
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