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Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond => Brokeback Mountain Open Forum => All Things Brokeback: Books, Interviews and More => Topic started by: iristarr on March 24, 2006, 01:17:53 am

Title: Small Towns heard from
Post by: iristarr on March 24, 2006, 01:17:53 am

Here's a link to an article in a Kansas City newspaper about the effects of BBM in that neck of the woods.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/movies/14160402.htm?source=rss&channel=kansascity_movies (http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/movies/14160402.htm?source=rss&channel=kansascity_movies)

Title: Re: Small Towns heard from
Post by: Peter John Shields on March 24, 2006, 07:10:35 am

Great article Iristarr - brokeback is tugging people's heart strings - I live in the suburbs and grew up in the country for a time and I have found that down to earth country and suburban people often understand and are more accepting of human nature then many give them credit for...

Thanks for finding the article,

Stripey

Title: Re: Small Towns heard from
Post by: Peter John Shields on March 24, 2006, 07:12:24 am

Also Iristarr one of the great things I loved about Brokeback is that it gave rural people a voice - I love films and books that have a rural local

Title: Re: Small Towns heard from
Post by: iristarr on March 24, 2006, 03:05:53 pm

Me too.  Part of why Annie Proulx's work, and BBM, moves me so much.  No city sophistication there, just straighforward stuff.
These folks who work nearer to the land and with animals are a lot closer to life and death than most urban folk.  Dont want to generalize too much, but that's how it looks to me. Iris