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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: tiawahcowboy on May 31, 2006, 11:36:32 am ---It was just another attempt to add extra heterosexual elements to the movie, where "Straight" screenplay writer Larry McMurtry could have another scene with a woman in it.
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Hunh? You think Larry McMurtry is desperate to sneak in women characters simply because he enjoys them as a straight man? Then why would he take on this project in the first place?
tiawahcowboy:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on May 31, 2006, 11:54:43 am ---Hunh? You think Larry McMurtry is desperate to sneak in women characters simply because he enjoys them as a straight man? Then why would he take on this project in the first place?
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From the Time Magazine interview with Larry McMurtry (what he said is in bold RED text):
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1151802,00.html
One of the main things you added to the story was women. In a lot of your work, women turn out to have far richer interior lives than men.
I have always argued that if you want to learn something about emotion, you have to ask women. That's why I've had three women characters who've won Oscars--[for] Patricia Neal, Cloris Leachman and Shirley MacLaine. I've always thought that for my interests, emotionally, I have to seek women to talk about. Men don't talk about emotion. They don't understand it.
tiawahcowboy:
--- Quote ---I've always thought that for my interests, emotionally, I have to seek women to talk about. Men don't talk about emotion. They don't understand it.
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I thought the above might have been a sterotypical statement by a woman writer if I had not known that Larry McMurtry had said it.
serious crayons:
Hmmm! That's interesting, tiawahcowboy. I apologize for my skepticism. And you're right, it is a bit sexist.
As for this comment:
--- Quote from: tiawahcowboy on May 31, 2006, 12:06:22 pm --- Men don't talk about emotion. They don't understand it.
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It's certainly true of this movie, anyway.
tiawahcowboy:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on May 31, 2006, 12:10:31 pm ---Hmmm! That's interesting, tiawahcowboy. I apologize for my skepticism. And you're right, it is a bit sexist.
As for this comment: Men don't talk about emotion. They don't understand it.
It's certainly true of this movie, anyway.
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Apology accepted, ma'am!
The only men whom I know or have known in the past 60 plus years who dont talk about nor understand emotion were brainwashed to believe that a "real" man should never talk about emotion with another man. Oh, even if the man understood emotion, he would not tell another man he did.
When I was a graduate student, John, my apartment mate, had have a woman to listen to him talk about his emotional problems/personal feelings related to his father being in the hospital. I told him that he could talk to me since I had experience something similar with my own father in the hospital. Besides, since he was a Pentecostal/Charismatic Christian, he should have remembered that even Jesus showed emotion and talked about it, too. He ended up being my apartment mate (it was a 2 bed/2 bath type) by coincidence. I had known him for two college terms before.
OT here: John had the nick name of "Chino" because his mother was Chinese-American and his father was European-American. He really did not look oriental as such, it was just that the "Asian-influenced" eyes just made him even more handsome. I was in the closet in those days; we even dated some of the same women grad students (or dated room mates). He could have been on a pro soccer team; he was just that great at the game and a professional soccer coach said so.
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