The 'Brokeback Canon': Essential Resources - Updated - Please Bump
by stevme (Tue Feb 14 2006 10:20:45) UPDATED Sun Dec 10 2006 12:07:21
I am reposting a reply that I gave to a posted interview. Hoping we can develop a list.
Someone should develop a sort of "canon" of resource material about the film to complement the excellent post that brings together all the varied and interesting discussion threads that have developed around this movie. This group of readings or interviews would provide valuable background to interested members of the public, as well as to film students, students of drama, and the like. This film, and related resources and threads, would provide excellent material for high school discussion as well, if parents gave their consent.
As to the Brokeback Canon, I would include;
The significant threads:
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,11010.msg215465.html#msg215465An interview with Diana Ossana and Larry McMurty:
http://www.cinemalogue.com/2006/02/14/brokeback-interview A video interview given by Ang:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6232568203875039021&q=brokeback+mountain Text of an interview with Ang, perhaps from the DVD of Brokeback Mountain:
http://movies.about.com/od/brokebackmountain/a/brokeback120605.htm
Later interview by Ang reflecting early influences:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/08/05/bffmof03.xml&menuId=564&sSheet=/arts/2006/08/05/ixfilmmain.html Film editing:From Heartbreak to Triumph on Brokeback Mountain:
http://www.avid.com/profiles/051219_brokeback_filmcomposer.asp?featureID=945&marketID= There is also a background piece by Annie Proulx on how she came to write Brokeback:
http://dementedslinkybrain.blogspot.com/2006/02/brokeback-mountain-story-to-screenplay.html A more general interview with Annie Proulx, before the movie was made:
http://www.missourireview.com/index.php?genre=Interviews&title=Interview+with+Annie+Proulx Actual photos of Ennis' home town, Sage, Wyoming (taken by a poster):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388795/board/thread/39824081?d=39824081#39824081 Video interview of Heath Ledger:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh1Nc1vcI8Y Radio interviews with Annie Proulx:
http://www.kcrw.com/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=bw&air_date=1/19/06&tmplt_type=show http://www.kcrw.com/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=bw&air_date=8/19/99&tmplt_type=show Film locations:
(Hat tip: CaseyCornelius):
http://www.findingbrokeback.com/
Computer graphics:
(Hat tip: Balrog_ressurected_again):
http://www.buzzimage.com/en/work/making_of/33
Chinese language resources:
http://www.tianyabook.com/waiguo/duanbeishan/index.htm (Story-Chinese)
http://blog.hjenglish.com/scar/archive/2006/01/21/217521.aspx (Story-English) I am sure there are others that could be added to the list of important resources.
Steve
Re: The 'Brokeback Canon': Essential Resources for the movie - Please Bump
by ednbarby (Tue Feb 14 2006 10:29:00) It's been posted elsewhere, but don't forget Daniel Mendelsohn's beautiful article in the NY Review of Books:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18712 Look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping...
Re: The 'Brokeback Canon': Essential Resources for the movie - Please Bump
by littlewing1957 11 hours ago (Sun Jul 15 2007 17:51:11) It is definitive, IMHO!
Everybody should be working on a afghan - Juliet Mills
Re: The 'Brokeback Canon': Essential Resources for the movie - Please Bump
by yaadpyar (Tue Feb 14 2006 10:34:43) Here's another good one:
Behind Brokeback An Interview with Producer James Schamus
http://towleroad.typepad.com/towleroad/2006/01/interview_with_.html Great start. Can you please list these as hotlinks? Cutting & pasting gets pretty tedious. I can PM you with directions if you need. Hope we get more info for this post. Good idea.
