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Annie Proulx's still pissed...
injest:
it is interesting to me that she says it is MEN that are sending her stuff...it is my perception that the fan fic community has as many women as men if not more. Is Proulx assuming it is only men sending her stuff or is it in fact only men?
Lynne:
--- Quote from: injest on May 04, 2009, 10:20:19 pm ---it is interesting to me that she says it is MEN that are sending her stuff...it is my perception that the fan fic community has as many women as men if not more. Is Proulx assuming it is only men sending her stuff or is it in fact only men?
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That is interesting, Jess...I would say our experience here has been that women write more fan fiction than men. I don't know why men would disproportionately send her their stories?
For that matter, I don't know why anyone would send her much besides thank you notes and maybe birthday cards.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on May 04, 2009, 10:04:06 pm ---I don't think she's over-reacting at all.
I don't see her story as open ended. It's pretty clear cut, Jack is dead.
I don't knock any slash authors or fans....but I've read so many different directions the story went under, and the characters are legally owned by Annie.
She has the right to say what she feels about her creation.
I can't believe that people would send her their versions of her characters......that's really odd to me. And when you add to it that most people came to know the characters from the movie, not her story, I'm sure she's annoyed by that as well.
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I agree, Chuck. I don't think she's overreacting either. In the section Eric quoted, I think this is the heart of her complaint:
--- Quote ---I think it’s important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience, but unfortunately the audience that Brokeback reached most strongly have powerful fantasy lives. And one of the reasons we keep the gates locked here is that a lot of men have decided that the story should have had a happy ending. They can’t bear the way it ends—they just can’t stand it. So they rewrite the story, including all kinds of boyfriends and new lovers and so forth after Jack is killed. And it just drives me wild.
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While Louise may have a point that Annie could be a little more charitable toward some of these people, that's not who she is. She's a plainspoken, forthright person who feels no call to be all Mary Poppinsy toward these people. So she isn't.
She's probably not costing herself any future readers, either. If I were a betting man, I'd bet these people haven't read anything else she's written, and probably wouldn't have read anything else she's written or will write--even if she didn't turn the dogs onto them.
southendmd:
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.
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on May 04, 2009, 10:04:06 pm ---I don't think she's over-reacting at all.
I don't see her story as open ended. It's pretty clear cut, Jack is dead.
I don't knock any slash authors or fans....but I've read so many different directions the story went under, and the characters are legally owned by Annie.
She has the right to say what she feels about her creation.
I can't believe that people would send her their versions of her characters......that's really odd to me. And when you add to it that most people came to know the characters from the movie, not her story, I'm sure she's annoyed by that as well.
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I totally agree with you Chuck. Well said! :D
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