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December 06, 2005
Proulx on Brokeback, her little canoe
While the New Yorker has her original short story online, John Detrixhe talks to Annie Proulx about Brokeback Mountain and more at Bookslut: "Did you ever feel like your work might be defined by 'Shipping News,' and now it seems there's a lot of attention being given to 'Brokeback Mountain'? "It's starting to look that way, yeah. It's odd, but that's how it is. Actually, that story was to be one of three or four stories about offbeat and difficult love situations, but I never wrote any of the others. I just wrote that one. I had to get away from it. It just got too intense, and too much on my mind... As it is right now, it stands out rather like a sore thumb in comparison to the rest of the work, so I think I have to do those other stories." "
Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana prepared the screenplay... Did you work with them at all...? It was in their hands. I think Diana called me one day and we talked for a couple hours on the telephone. I pretty much stayed out of it. Mostly because I was busy with something else, and because I'm not a movie person. I'm not a screenplay writer. There's certain rhythms and certain shape to the screen that's just different from short stories or novels... I really hate the tendency that many writers have when their stuff is made into a film, that they are in there, they want to do everything..." "A friend who [saw the movie at] the Toronto Film Festival... loved the way certain parts were filled in to make a feature-length story." "I liked it, too. I thought that what they did was really quite wonderful. It really enriched the story. Instead of a little canoe, it became an ocean liner."
Posted by pride at December 6, 2005 04:27 PM
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