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Annie Proulx's still pissed...
southendmd:
I believe The Paris Review is based in New York. And, the original interview with similar themes about "pornish rewrites" was in the Wall Street Journal.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122065020058105139.html
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: injest on May 04, 2009, 11:56:59 pm ---so nice to see the gratitude and love...
how dare this woman not be a perfect saint!! How dare she not get on her knees and appreciate the largesse bestowed upon her! The ungrateful wretch!
I for one appreciate her sharing her gift with us, and if she wishes to be left alone about it, then that is enough for me. She owes me nothing.
I on the other hand owe her gratitude for giving me Jack and Ennis.
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agreed, and I am amazed that Proulx has had the forebearance to NOT pursue copyright infringments on FanFic writers who are using her copyrighted characters.
maybe its time to leave AP alone, wish her well, and hope that her creativity will produce more works of brilliiant fiction.
Brown Eyes:
This is about more than just fanfic. It seems to be about Proulx disavowing BBM as a movie and even as a story too. I think that trying to all of a sudden rigidly define what BBM is about almost ruins the poetry of the open-endedness of BBM.
Everyone understands that she holds the copyright. But, I'll ask again, if she didn't want her story to be manipulated why did she allow it to be turned into a movie.. writen by other people, with new characters invented, details invented, things happening that never happened in the story? She let it happen to The Shipping News too. And, I'll also just re-iterate that Larry McMurtry's voice as a writer is there loud and clear in the screenplay... so again, she wasn't always so upset with the idea of other writers co-opting and re-working her story.
What she says in the interview quoted in the first post seems amazingly short-sighted. It's hard for me to believe that she could say some of the things she said in the interview. I always thought of her as more nuanced than that. I hope Lee's right that the interview is somehow taken out of context.
:-\
SFEnnisSF:
I don't think it was taken out of context at all. I truly believe she said what she's quoted as saying. It sounds exactly like her "pornish rewrites" rant...
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: atz75 on May 05, 2009, 12:15:25 am ---This is about more than just fanfic. It seems to be about Proulx disavowing BBM as a movie and even as a story too. I think that trying to all of a sudden rigidly define what BBM is about almost ruins the poetry of the open-endedness of BBM.
Everyone understands that she holds the copyright. But, I'll ask again, if she didn't want her story to be manipulated why did she allow it to be turned into a movie.. writen by other people, with new characters invented, details invented, things happening that never happened in the story? She let it happen to The Shipping News too. And, I'll also just re-iterate that Larry McMurtry's voice as a writer is there loud and clear in the screenplay... so again, she wasn't always so upset with the idea of other writers co-opting and re-working her story.
What she says in the interview quoted in the first post seems amazingly short-sighted. It's hard for me to believe that she could say some of the things she said in the interview. I always thought of her as more nuanced than that. I hope Lee's right that the interview is somehow taken out of context.
:-\
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I am not privy to her agreement with McMurtry / Ossana, but I assume their were restrictions and conditions on what they could and couldn't do with her intellectual property. The "Violence to Property" clauses found in many such agreements between authors and screenwriters or production companies comes to mind.
I am not aware that she is specifically complaining about the departures from her SS by the screenplay or the film, but by the seemingly open ended quest by fandom to continue to alter her story. Frankly, I am sympathetic to her, some of the FanFic I have read goes way beyond staying within the spirit of Brokeback Mountain.
Ennis and Jack as murdering vampires? When I saw that story posted on Bettermost, I felt that was reached way over the limit.
I can only imagine the constant letters, emails, communications she receives from, shall we say, obsessive fans.
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