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Annie Proulx's still pissed...
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: southendmd on May 04, 2009, 10:40:25 pm ---This interview is a rehash of her earlier "pornish rewrites" rant.
Anyone who's read Annie knows she's not big on happy endings. However, having written the story, with all its ambiguity, and the nerve she struck in so many people, she'll just have to get used to the fact that, although she "owns" the characters, Jack and Ennis now belong to the world.
It's bigger than her. Of course people get that it's about homophobia. It just doesn't end there. It's a springboard for all kinds of things.
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Heya Paul,
I agree with your perspective here. This little bit of interview makes Annie almost seem short-sighted about what BBM can mean or what J & E mean. She may own the copyright to the short story, but it's very true that she can't expect to control how the story or characters impact readers or other aspects of culture.
No artist or writer can reasonably expect their art or story to be contained within a sealed bubble. Once it's sent out in the world it's out there, and you can't dictate how folks will react or respond, especially when it comes to a popular story read or seen my millions of people.
I think these interviews by Annie are really, really unfortunate.
SFEnnisSF:
If she didn't want it interpreted in different "fantasy" ways, she shouldn't have left those "open spaces" then...
injest:
no matter HOW anyone feels about the characters in a story, if a writer says she is not interested in seeing fan fic, that should be respected. No one has a write to harass someone to the point they feel they have to live behind a fence.
she isn't trying to keep anyone from writing it..she just doesnt want to be bothered.
Lynne:
--- Quote from: sfericsf on May 04, 2009, 11:08:46 pm ---If she didn't want it interpreted in different "fantasy" ways, she shouldn't have left those "open spaces" then...
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Respectfully, I really don't think she did, Eric. I have the short story handy next to the bed, of course... ::)
"So now he [Ennis] knew it had been the tire iron."
In the short story, I find Ennis a reliable narrator. I would guess that in Annie's opinion, this one sentence should settle it.
Edit:
And in the sentence about 'open spaces' - the space is "between what he [again Ennis] knew and what he tried to believe". The use of the word 'tried' makes me think that Ennis sees Jack's fate as murder, although he tries hard not to. This doesn't come through quite the same way in the film.
SFEnnisSF:
I don't think this is just about fan fic. (And nobody put a gun to her head and said "read this pornish rewrite" BTW...)
It's about how her audience interpreted the story in their own ways. She deliberately left "open space" in the story for it to be interpreted by the reader. And now she's upset with some of the interpretations. Why should they bother her? Yes, the reader got initially what the story was about. They read her work. IMO, she should be grateful for that.
But because a few folks took their interpretations a few steps further than how she would have, she now condems everybody and the whole story and wishes she never wrote it? Oh come on, what a temper tantram fit for a bitchy drama queen!!
I actually feel kind of insulted by her. She first gave us this gift of a movie that touched us all (in many different ways, as she intended it to with her "open spaces") and now she wants to take it all back from us? I used to have respect for her, but now I think I just wanna bitch slap her... OMG lady, let it go...
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