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Brokeback mountain story6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Hers is the frustration of the control freak diagnosing unfairness in any outcome not to her liking, be it a wrongly attributed trophy or an unfathomable response. Writing in this newspaper in 2006 shortly after the film failed to win the Best Picture Oscar, she referred to the winning movie, Crash, as “Trash”. It’s true that Proulx has been protective of Brokeback Mountain to the point of intemperance. 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 … So they rewrite the story … I can’t tell you how many of these things have been sent to me as though they’re expecting me to say, ‘Oh great, if only I’d had the sense to write it that way.’” 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. “It’s just been the cause of hassle and problems and irritation since the film came out … So many people have completely misunderstood the story. “I wish I’d never written the story,” Proulx told the Paris Review. ![]()
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