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TOTW 15/07: Short story or movie, which one do you prefer?
Oregondoggie:
Many of us know the movie frame by frame by now. Maybe don't watch it like we used to. Some of us watch segments depending on our mood. Maybe just for the music. Stoke the day.
But the little short story retains its power. Sometimes the rainbow appears over one part. Another time the wind tears down the page.
Can't really guess how liking the movie or the short story better would break down by gender, except that the screen play opens up the lives of the female characters. We can't ignore them and just run off to the Motel Siesta!
Front-Ranger:
Sure you can. Just say, "Jack and I get to talkin, drinking, might not make it back until tomorrow!."
brokebackjack:
--- Quote from: Artiste on December 01, 2007, 03:21:48 pm ---Anti-Jack or anti-gay, same thing!!??
Certainly anti-Jack!! Glad you awake persons to that!
Hugs!
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Terribly sorry Artiste but it is NOT the same thing.
Nor was BBM anti Jack.
I simply do not get any of this, any of it at all.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Oregondoggie on December 05, 2007, 12:34:21 am ---Can't really guess how liking the movie or the short story better would break down by gender, except that the screen play opens up the lives of the female characters.
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No, I don't mean women like the movie better because they're more sympathetic to or interested in the female characters. I haven't seen that tendency at all.
I think what I might be getting at is, the movie is slightly more romantic in the traditional sense -- with emphasis on the "slightly" (it definitely never gets sentimental or maudlin or any of those icky things). But Annie Proulx is even more unsentimental, and while up to a point I admire that about the story in a literary sense, in some cases she goes so far as to keep me a bit distanced from the characters emotionally. And -- so shoot me if this sounds sexist -- women sometimes tend to be more drawn than men are toward romantic fare.
It's just slightly, slightly more (and oh gosh, I know I'm going to get in huge trouble for using this term) chick flicky.
--- Quote ---We can't ignore them and just run off to the Motel Siesta!
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Well, I do. I'm one of those people whose sympathies for Alma in that scene are purely intellectual. They don't impinge on my happiness for J & E.
--- Quote from: brokebackjack on December 05, 2007, 04:47:00 am ---I simply do not get any of this, any of it at all.
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Me neither, Jack, but there's a whole thread devoted to this topic (13 pages long, at present) on this forum, where I assume Artiste outlines his views. So what's say we move on from the anti-gay/Jack discussion here.
Artiste:
ineedcrayons, I am very sad because of your demand.
Guess we have no more freedom to be gay men here?
Of all, you surprise me...
Hugs!
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