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TOTW 15/07: Short story or movie, which one do you prefer?
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: Artiste on December 02, 2007, 02:44:07 pm ---I forgot! As far as saying that I prefer the movie or the book, that is one reason maybe that the book might be better?
Hugs!
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The short story definitely has its positive points and can be read at many different levels. anti-gay really is not one of them.
Artiste, in the movie do you remember the scenes in Jack Twists' home in Childress Texas? I am going to ask you a question because I know that you are a very accomplished artist who sells your paintings for top dollar. I looked at the prices that your paintings are selling for on line. WOW!
My question: Do you think that the decor in the Twist's home was tacky to the point of being a parody of nouveau riche Texans? I do, so maybe I should view Brokeback the movie as anti-Texan? hhhhhmmmmmmm.....????
Artiste:
Thanks brokeplex!
Wow, you sure pose a question there! You ask me a puzzle, indeed!
I always figure that that scene in Jack's parents' home, inside is like a painting, utmostly known like the ones with the man and woman with the fork, which title was it again? Mr.and Mrs. Twist are such figures of that painting? As an producer, I could not have choosen better physical and stern looking and acting actors as these two!! Wow, wow!!
And the outside of it, like the one from the Pennsylvania artist where the lady is on the side on the hill and the house is seen from afar; forgotten that titled and name of the artist, even if I lived there nearby.
Of course, other paintings will come to mind too. You too?
Even if my paintings seem to be expensive to you, they are not so, since they are worth much, much more $ wise, plus otherwise as for humanity!! That is another subject for later on... OK?
I am glad that you bring that up about my paintings and of others, to think about the Twist's house and home!!
Remember the word stern that I used!! It is always BM movie! Is it the book too??
You might think that the decor is tacky, to use your word, for the Twist' home, but then many were and much still is to-day, as I entered numerous house travelling all over USA and Canada... plus I had delivered newspapers which allowed me to enter and even babysit at some places. Boy, did I see many places which were REALLY the BM movie!!
Hugs!
brokeplex:
No Artiste, not the Twist home in Lightning Flat, Wy. The Jack Twist home in Childress, TX. And, you know that I am joking about BM being anti-Texan...right? But I am still interested in your impression of the Twist home in Childress, TX
Front-Ranger:
I grew up in Kansas, not Texas, in the '60s, and the Jack Twist house is a dead ringer for my childhood home. It is very faithful to the post-war newly affluent suburban Midwest lifestyle of that time.
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 02, 2007, 09:08:09 pm ---I grew up in Kansas, not Texas, in the '60s, and the Jack Twist house is a dead ringer for my childhood home. It is very faithful to the post-war newly affluent suburban Midwest lifestyle of that time.
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Really, in Kansas? Even with the fake cactus lamps, and the weird desert motifs in the wallpaper? To me its a little over the top, not that a loving home can't be found with all that Southwestern decor and strangely mismatched colors?. I just don't remember seeing a house in Texas or anywhere with that type of furnsihings, it looks like it was expensive, I just thought it was kinda weird. When I was younger during the same time period as you, I remember decor similar to what we see in Alma's house after she divorced Ennis and married the grocer. Kind of heavy on the polished wood and stone, and brick....brick......brick......everywhere. Warm and "homey".
Since I'm in my 'decor' mode, I'll ask one more question. What did you think of the decor in Alma's apt with Ennis in Riverton? I thought that was right on target for a poor young married couple with a young child. The Singer sewing machine over in the corner, the red Betty Crocker cookbook on the drainboard, the plastic glued on vanity cabinets in bathroom. Wow, I think Ang Lee sure got that one right!
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