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TOTW 15/07: Short story or movie, which one do you prefer?
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: brokebackjack on November 13, 2007, 04:12:03 am ---Insofar as I am concerned it was as faithful to the book as a film could be.
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This was the first major impression that the film had on me, its faithfulness to the story. I've known the story since its first publication in The New Yorker and actually went out and bought the Scribner's edition and read it again, so it was really fresh in my mind when I saw the film. I was stunned because I don't think I've ever seen a film so faithful to a work of literature.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Marge_Innavera on November 17, 2007, 01:13:33 pm ---I saw the movie before I read the story, and that might have influenced my "like the movie best" vote. But frankly, while I thought the story was wonderful, it just didn't haunt me the way the movie did, nor did I feel compelled to read it over and over, although I have read it several times. And I doubt very seriously that this and other Brokeback-themed forums would exist if the short story had never been made into film.
But, of course, the film would not exist without the story.
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Acutally, Marge's comment reminded how I was compelled to read the story over and over. I saw the film twice in December 2005, before I went to visit my dad for Christmas. I read that story every day--really every night--until I was able to get back to Philadelphia and see the film again. It was how I kept it together. :-\
Artiste:
Wow, wow!!
Of course, we like BOTH!!
Annie's story words are repeated in the movie, thank goodness!
But the cute two main gay or bi (or straight) guys in the book are changed by the movie! (They would notlook like these actors!!
Right??
Hugs to all!!
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: Artiste on November 21, 2007, 12:02:50 am ---Wow, wow!!
Of course, we like BOTH!!
Annie's story words are repeated in the movie, thank goodness!
But the cute two main gay or bi (or straight) guys in the book are changed by the movie! (They would notlook like these actors!!
Right??
Hugs to all!!
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Do you mean that in that Jake and Heath do not resemble the descriptions of Jack and Ennis in the short story?
Or do you mean that in the movie the two actors do not show the signs of age that we would expect?
Artiste:
Thanks brokeplex!
Right, I say to you first sentence as well as to your second one:
Do you mean that in that Jake and Heath do not resemble the descriptions of Jack and Ennis in the short story?
Or do you mean that in the movie the two actors do not show the signs of age that we would expect?
...
Even if both the book and the movie are important: Jake, I say, is too cute, as Jack! So is Heath as Ennis! That seems so according to Annie's book descriptions??
Let us start with that?? (Tackle the other sentence later, as to aging??)
Hugs!
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