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Sometimes I wish A.Proulx would have written the story different. How about you?

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Katie77:
I have voiced my opinion of Annie and her book on many occassions here.....and once again I will say what I always say....

I just wish the book had been a novel.....you know, where chapters go back and tell you about what happened it the characters life to make them the way they are.....delve into their thoughts and tell you what they are thinking.....give you a day by day of each of the characters whether they are together or not....just more in depth of everything about the story.

I guess if that had been the case, there woulndt be so many questions to be asked and answered about Brokeback, I guess, we woulndt have to form our own opinion of what one was thinking or doing, I guess it would have answered all our questions.

Of course if all those questions had been answered, then maybe we wouldnt have needed a message board, to bring us all together with our ideas and opinions of what different things meant in the movie, so I have no regrets that because of the shortness of the book, it caused us all to meet up.

I just sometimes think it was a "cop out" to only write so few pages to a wonderful story and wonderful characters, but I will always be thankful to Annie, for bringing Jack and Ennis into my life.

Front-Ranger:
Did you know that this story went through more than 60 revisions? She probably DID write a novel but pruned and finessed it so much that only the essential parts are left. And, as Lee, Ossana, and McMurty showed, you can take a paragraph, a phrase, sometimes a single word and expand it into a whole new sidestory or backstory. Like the one about Uncle Harold, I have spent DAYS thinking about him, how he went up on Brokeback Mtn with Aguirre 20 years before, about how he was married to Alma's sister but they divorced, etc. etc. Another thing that's fun to do is to read the story on different levels, the sociological level, the metaphorical, the spiritual level, the food symbolism level, the metal implements level, etc. etc. The reason you can't get BBM out of your mind, Katie, is because there is more there that your curiousity wants to understand! Your brain is trying to tell you something!!

MaineWriter:
Obviously, I do wish she wrote a different ending and because she didn't, I did.

Seriously, this is the first time in my life that a story/movie has stayed with me so much that I actually could envision a different ending. I think the "real" BBM is wonderful, but sad, but I also think that Annie P. has given us wonderful, complex characters who can be imagined in many different ways. I did some of that imagining and so have many others. It is really quite something, when you think about it.

Leslie
MW

tamarack:
Who the heck is Uncle Harold? Seriously.

jpwagoneer1964:

--- Quote from: tamarack on August 19, 2006, 10:34:35 pm ---Who the heck is Uncle Harold? Seriously.

--- End quote ---
When Jack and Ennis are on Brokeback Joe Agguire ( their boss ) rides up to tell Jack his uncle Harold is in the hospital with   pneumonia and would likely not make it. He does survive though. No explinanation of how he his related to Jack.

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