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Alma? It ain't her fault. - Whose fault is it?

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tiawahcowboy:
This is merely a rhetorical statement: I would like to know how many people who are members of BetterMost who have actually known people in real life who were very much like Ennis and/or Jack in their life situations.

As I posted in the OP, the answer to the question is really an argument from silence.

Of course, we know its not Alma's fault that Ennis fell in love with Jack before he married her in December 1964.

I do ask why the screenplay writers decided that Ennis would not drive his own truck in 1963 when Annie Proulx had him driving one. Ennis did not walk off the road into an alley in the the AP story, he pulled off to the side of the road and got out of his truck because he thought he had to puke and he had felt like someone was pulling his guts out one yard at a time.

RouxB:

--- Quote from: tiawahcowboy on June 01, 2006, 01:06:47 pm ---I do ask why the screenplay writers decided that Ennis would not drive his own truck in 1963 when Annie Proulx had him driving one. Ennis did not walk off the road into an alley in the the AP story, he pulled off to the side of the road and got out of his truck because he thought he had to puke and he had felt like someone was pulling his guts out one yard at a time.
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Well, this question is quite different from the original posted question-I'll answer this one.

 Because the movie is the vision and art work of the screenwriters, the director, producers, cinematopgrapher, composer, actors and all the other craftspeople that put their talents into this creation-it is not the artwork of Annie Proulx-the story is her masterpiece. The movie belongs to others and the reasons they chose to tell their stories the way they did, as opposed to the way AP did is interesting but non-critical knowledge for me.

tiawahcowboy:
I don't have to be told over and over in printed cyber-text about the screenplay writers and the movie director using artistic license to do whatever they wanted in adapting Annie Proulx's original short story.

IMO, in some cases, their used their artistic licenses to drive completely away from what Annie Proulx originally wrote.

What happens in Texas in the AP version is just talked about by the story's narrator or by Jack himself until the only time that Lureen even speaks. And, when she does, it is because Ennis called Jack's Texas phone number and she answered.

I am not stupidly igorant! Oh, I have seen movies which had in the credits, "adapted from _________'s novel (or story) but, the only thing in the movie's final cut that had been adapted from the original story was the title.

RouxB:
Okay Cowboy, you know best  ::)


 O0

tiawahcowboy:

--- Quote from: RouxB on June 01, 2006, 02:23:37 pm ---Okay Cowboy, you know best 
 

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No, I just know what I know!

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