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Project Western Living
Front-Ranger:
Gotten past the movie?? Noooo...will never happen!! 8)
Brown Eyes:
Speaking of Childress... will Texas become more of a focus for BetterMost too? I mean Jack was killed (one way or the other) in Texas. Sadly, I have little to contribute in terms of "real-life" experience since I'm firmly an east-of-the-Mississippi gal. But, I feel like the Texas dynamics are an important part of the story... as much so as Wyoming. The Texas rodeo culture and even the small town/ suburban culture of Jack's Texas seem really significant.
Phillip Dampier:
--- Quote from: atz75 on September 12, 2006, 11:47:34 pm ---Speaking of Childress... will Texas become more of a focus for BetterMost too? I mean Jack was killed (one way or the other) in Texas. Sadly, I have little to contribute in terms of "real-life" experience since I'm firmly an east-of-the-Mississippi gal. But, I feel like the Texas dynamics are an important part of the story... as much so as Wyoming. The Texas rodeo culture and even the small town/ suburban culture of Jack's Texas seem really significant.
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I think we can accomodate both to the extent they were rural wide open places. I want to create a tapestry with the scenery complete to let people get a sense of life in the rural western states. But Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming would have to be the centerpiece. I have been daydreaming a lot about the vision thing for the site as time passes, and these ideas you guys are bringing to the table are very important to me because they are like puzzle pieces and they are starting to come together.
I also definitely want a network of "correspondents" from the region to help guide the development of the site with on-the-ground realism about what life and culture is like out there. There are lots of questions and avenues to explore that go beyond the movie itself, and I want to make sure we capitalize on those as well.
moremojo:
Just something to add, sort of like thinking out loud (except typing it out): I would be very interested in learning more about/seeing more of the Native American presence in and contribution to the Western culture that is being invoked here. Historically, so many of the Native American populations were decimated due to the genocidal policies of the settlers of European descent who appropriated the land in their gradual westward move, but many Native American cultures remain living entities, and even where vanished, spiritually impinge upon the numen of the land in having been the first human beings to inhabit it.
How many stories might Brokeback Mountain have enshrined even before Jack and Ennis?
jessiwrite:
Larry McMurtry pulled me into Texas. If you want to feel rural Texas, read Horseman, Pass By. Leaving Cheyenne will transport you there. I actaully saw the landscape and tasted the buttermilk.
jessi
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