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Brokeback Mountain was not the first Wyoming story about homophobia

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brokebackjack:
If they had any taste they did, it's a lousy book.

Shakesthecoffecan:
I do n;t know that there has been an effort to make it into a movie, Artiste, and I cna't really speak to weather or not the state refused it, as I don't live there. I did read the book, someone recomented it to me on the Proulx website back when they had a forum. It was an interesting read, but it was no Brokeback.

Now as for Brokeback Mountain, Proulx has maintained it is a story about the effects of rural homophobia, but I think the movie made it much more, it carried us beyond that.

brokebackjack:
 The state has more authors per capita, and more serious readers per capita then any other state. A book that sells 10000 copies in Wyoming would be a book that is considered a phenomenal bestseller.

You all forget, the population is about 420, 000 and it's the size of the UK with it's remaining dependencies. And what, aren't a third Native Americans?

They read up there. Hell they even think I'VE got possibilities  up there.

I got ahold of this a few days ago, it's not Brokeback. But then nothing is. That's why BB is BB.

moremojo:

--- Quote from: Shakestheground on April 10, 2007, 06:31:12 pm ---Now as for Brokeback Mountain, Proulx has maintained it is a story about the effects of rural homophobia, but I think the movie made it much more, it carried us beyond that.
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Absolutely, and this is one reason that the film has resonated so deeply and lastingly for so many of us.

Front-Ranger:
Annie Proulx is so modest and self-effacing. I take everything she says with a grain of salt. Brokeback Mountain is so much more than that. To me it is on a par with Homer (and I don't mean Homer Simpson!!)

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