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Annie Proulx's still pissed...
louisev:
--- Quote from: Katie77 on May 05, 2009, 03:51:30 am ---Just think how we would feel if Heath or Jake had said something similar about BBM.
That interview was more than about copyright, and Im sure if she could take legal action against fan fic writers, she would have done it by now.
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she did. Against several of us actually, which is why I went out of the fanfiction business and rewrote my stories - because her lawyer threatened a lawsuit. There were three other authors of fan stories who got the same treatment. I spent last winter rewriting all of mine so they wouldn't contain any Brokeback references.
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The movie, in my opinion was a long way off the original story, with things added and things changed, and really, lets face it, the movie is far far bigger than her written story......we didn't see forums started like this one, about the story in the paper, how many of us would be Brokies because of the story alone? How many of us, only bought the book, because of the movie?
I think Annie Proloux has a higher opinion of herself than a lot of others do.
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and I definitely agree here.
louisev:
--- Quote from: sfericsf on May 05, 2009, 11:04:32 am ---I wonder what her reaction would have been if she'd had let Gus Van Sant do Brokeback Mountain a la "My Own Private Idaho" style... I bet her head would have spun around when she saw the finished product. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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Her head did spin around when she saw the finish product of "The Shipping News", she hated the movie and refused to have anything to do with its promotion. And that was her Pulitzer winning book.
louisev:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 05, 2009, 11:29:39 am --- :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Imagine someone like Keanu Reeves as Ennis. ... :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Well, but "finishing the story" is one thing. Telling an author he or she should have written an entirely different story than he or she wrote is quite something else.
As Annie essentially says, she didn't set out to write a story about two gay cowboys in love. She set out to write a story about homophobia.
I think it's interesting that she seems in particular to single out the "moving-on Ennis" genre of fanfiction for her authorial indignation. :-\
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Yes, she did. There were four legal actions taken against fanfics in this fandom, and nobody I know ever sent them to her for her comment OR approval. That isn't to say that somebody ELSE didn't send her my story, but I know I sure didn't. Three of those four were about Ennis's life after Jack's death, which is why that particular fan fic plot is practically nonexistent in the fandom.
Monika:
It´s hard to comment on the interview, because we don´t know exactly what have been sent to AP, or how insistent those men she mentions, have been. She seems pretty pissed, so maybe it has been pretty bad.
The comment about it being unfortunate that people have active fantasy lives is pretty funny coming from an author though, I must say
She doesn´t seem very eager to please her reader and she seems to have no trouble speaking her mind. I for one woulnd´t want to mess with AP! :)
Mikaela:
--- Quote from: louisev on May 05, 2009, 12:15:56 pm ---Her head did spin around when she saw the finish product of "The Shipping News", she hated the movie and refused to have anything to do with its promotion. And that was her Pulitzer winning book.
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I can understand her concerning the Shipping News. :P
That's a whole 'nother discussion, isn't it - how an adaption with top notch actors like Cate Blanchett, Judy Dench, Kevin Spacey and Julianne Moore, a very good director and such a tragic and salty original source could be so totally *blah*? :P And then how another film based on another of her stories, with another good director and very handsome Hollywood stars could manage the complete opposite and keep us yacking year after year?
I guess part of the answer may be that for the Shipping News, the script had to cut down a lot on the story, reduce it and remove elements - while for Brokeback, Ossana and McMurtry had to include more that the original had on offer, and so somehow transmuted it and added to it. Plus, the Brokeback characters hit a zeitgeist nerve (even within the frames of the original story) that the Shipping News Characters don't do at all. I mainly wanted to smack most of the SN characters silly. ::)
I don't know. It's a fascinating comparison anyway.
But the fact remains that despite the "Shipping News" fiasco AP did keep in contact with the Brokeback scriptwriters and she met up with various people seeking to make a movie out of BBM - Ang Lee was not the first BBM director wanna-be she talked to (and the previous meeting was a disaster, the way she retells it in "Getting movied"). So she *does* want her characters to reach a wider audience of other mediums - and to see professional interpretations played out, at least.
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