I can't believe that I've never linked to it before, but... no, I haven't. Shameful. Here's a link to the short story "Brokeback Mountain" by Annie Proulx in The New Yorker. I know you know I love it. It's worth reading. If you read it before or after seeing the film it doesn't seem to make a difference - the boyfriend hasn't read it yet, he wanted to go into the film without knowing the story; I am an impatient spazz and had to read it as soon as I could, but it didn't take away, for me, the experience of the film... obviously.
I've been dying to read Roger Ebert's written review of BBM, since Roger, through good and bad (hello, J-Lo obsession), is far and away my favorite critic, but he won't be posting it until Friday when BBM gets its release in Chicago. Sigh. I do already know he loved the film, I've listened to the podcast of his TV show where he reviewed the film last week, but I can't wait to read whhat he has to say since his writing is just beautiful, always. But he did post an interview with director Ang Lee and Heath Ledger today, so... that's what I'm linking to.
Here, from Ebert's interview is Ang Lee talking about the film and the story:
"'Heath Ledger, the movie rides on him. He's able to carry that mythical, elegiac Western thing. A macho environment in which he's scared and private. It happens after they climb higher to where the air is thinner and everything is unknown and a mystery. That's Brokeback to me.'
Finally he sipped his tea.
'I'm experienced enough to know,' he said, 'that the hardest thing to tell is an epic short story. Slices of life that add up to an epic feeling. You have to choose small details that feel like they add up to gaps of two or three years, between their meetings. It looks easy but it's not, especially since they never talk about it. One day I said to Annie, 'Your terse prose is very hard to bring to the screen.' You know what she said to me?'
What did she say to you?
'She said, 'That's your job.' "
Here, from Ebert's interview is Ang Lee talking about the film and the story:
"'Heath Ledger, the movie rides on him. He's able to carry that mythical, elegiac Western thing. A macho environment in which he's scared and private. It happens after they climb higher to where the air is thinner and everything is unknown and a mystery. That's Brokeback to me.'
Finally he sipped his tea.
'I'm experienced enough to know,' he said, 'that the hardest thing to tell is an epic short story. Slices of life that add up to an epic feeling. You have to choose small details that feel like they add up to gaps of two or three years, between their meetings. It looks easy but it's not, especially since they never talk about it. One day I said to Annie, 'Your terse prose is very hard to bring to the screen.' You know what she said to me?'
What did she say to you?
'She said, 'That's your job.' "
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