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southendmd:
Hey Karl!  We'd love your thoughts on the book.  Any review yet??

Kd5000:
It's quite wordy. Very dense with many insightful comments on the movie.   I'd describe the book as academic moreso then a fanboy/girl book.  I've been talking to the owner of the local G/L bookstore about having the book's editor (he only live 3 hours away) come down for a signing and a talk. Don't know if it's going to happen.   There is  a nice poem from a viewer who has seen the film six times on page VIII. I'm not going to write it out. Well maybe latter. 



Here is an excerpt from page 35

In August, after Jack's departure, when words failed them both, the camera leaves a grunting, anguishing Ennis on his knees and takes us to a small church where ironically  the congregation, Ennis, and his bride are repeating in unison some of the most widely recited words in history, "The Lord's prayer": "... and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us....deliver us from evil."  It is likely that Ennis at times views his passion with Jack as an evil from which he needs to be delivered; no wonder he has such shame.  A joking preacher gives Ennis a sanctified reminder to marry and breed. The kiss seals their new marriage; so begins this new family's traditional narrative.

That excerpt is from the chapter titled "Buried in the Family Plot"

Front-Ranger:
The title confuses me. Reading Brokeback Mountain? It sounds like an analysis of the story, not the movie. Does the author talk about the story at all? Is it a personal interpretation? BBM deserves better than this!!

Kd5000:
From the book.
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THIS COLLECTION OFFERS 15 CRITICAL ESSAYS (by 15 different writers) ON ANNIE PROULX'S short story BBM and it's controversial film adaption by screenwriters....Each essay explores the short story, the film and the sociocultural phenomenon that follwed the release of the motion picture in 2005

The essays adopt both traditional perspectives and postmodern angles, including those of women's studies, queer studies, sexuality studies, ethnic studies and American studies.  Many of the essays focus primarily on the film, it's critical reception, it's stars, it's soundtrack and it's cultural implications.
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That's from the back of the book. I've only started to read it.

page 15
Between the publication of Brokeback Mountain in the New Yorker and it's appearance in the collection of Close Ranges, Proulx added an italicized prologue taking place in the mind of Ennis, suggesting he has found some solace in his dreams of Jack Twist and in his relationship to his married daughter.
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Obviously Ennis dreaming about Jack wasn't shown in the film, so the author explains how Ennis may have found a bit of solace in accepting his daughter's wedding invitation... Well it goes into alot more detail drawing parallels with the dream and accepting a wedding invitation.

Wishes:
Oregondoggie, I agree there is a lot of excellent information and interpretation on this board and I am sure others. For me though, there is nothing like curling up with a book.  :) My computer, though a lap top, stays at the desk.


Kd, thanks for the additional information. I'm really considering the book at this point.

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