The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[Toast]

Larry and Diana had valid reasons for the additions they made to the story.   They didn't fall for the addition of jokes, nudity and ammo just to cater to the peanut gallery.

[Fran]

"Any omissions from the short story to the screenplay were dramatic choices.  Most of what is in the short story is contained within the finished screenplay, although when we actually scripted the short story, it only amounted to about a third of the final script.  We had to imagine and create the scenes that we added or fleshed out, meaning, essentially, that we had to create two-thirds of the screenplay from our imaginations."

Brokeback Mountain: Interview with Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana

=aside= Sandy
Thanks.

[Ellemeno]

Story Ennis is more of a talker than Screenplay Ennis.

[Toast]

Both the story and the screenplay leave us with uncertainty about the manner of Jack's death.   However in the 2004 shooting script there is a scene that seems to rule out an accident:

EXT. GAS STATION -- ROAD OUTSIDE CHILDRESS -- DAY -- 1982

Jack's truck pulls up to the dirt lot next to the gas station. A mechanic, tire jack in hand, fiddling with a car, takes a beer from his buddy, who sits on a tire nearby. They both watch as Randall gets out of the truck and walks to his own truck parked in the lot, waving back at Jack.

The mechanic trades glances with his friend.

Their pov:

Randall's truck pulls out of the lot, goes in one direction.

Jack's pulls out after him, going in the opposite direction. wide:

We hold on Jack's truck, as it drives off into the distance.

[The unnumbered scene occurs between Cassie's kiss-off (147) and Ennis receiving the undelivered postcard (148).]

=aside= Players
Off for a couple of days, NOT fishing.

[southendmd]

Jack's death provided much variability between the story, the screenplay and even among different versions of the screenplay.

[Ellemeno]

What exactly Ennis warshed varied from story to screenplay.

[Fran]

Now "Brokeback Mountain" makes the jump from page to screen.

(Annie) Proulx, for one, is delighted with how things turned out.

"I was lucky in having two xtra-fine writers who understood the place, the landscape and the people. ... When I saw the film for the first time they roared up from the screen and back into my head in a way I didn't think was possible," she said.

Proulx calls the script a "complete thing," and ladles on the sort of praise Wyoming ranch folk hold dear.

"It said what it had to say and then shut up." 

-- William Porter, The Denver Post

[Fran]

Round 555!

"I was lucky in having two extra-fine writers
who understood the place, the landscape and the people."

                                                                                                                                                     -- Annie Proulx, on the BBM screenplay

[Ellemeno]

In some parts of the screenplay, McMurtry and Ossana adjusted the dialogue but little from the story's words.

[southendmd]

In the film Ennis brazenly strips off his socks to warsh, in the story, he was sockless, and endeavors to warsh everything he could reach.