olden Globe-winning screenwriter Diana Ossana, when asked about
ommissions from the short story to the screnplay, replied, "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= FranThank you.