NO, McMurtry merely ADAPTED a short story by the same title that was written by this horrid author called Annie Proulx. She's been awarded a Pulitzer Prize (just saying, not commending) for writing that is so tortured and crude as to be butchery of the English language and one of her short stories is "Brokeback Mountain," which was adapted to the screen by Larry McMurtry.
He gets screenwriting credit but as an adapatation...the screenplay is, literally, a direct replant of the short story with very little to no additions so McMurtry was used here not as an original creative writer, not relied on to provide original content.
He's reliably great with dialogue and particularly of the somwhat cryptic but realistic barest of human environments, such as are rougher, stressed, less polished frontiers and such. But he didn't create these characters, nor the story, but adapted Proulx's story to the screen.
Anyone can go read her short story on the internet by the same title and save themselves the ticket price and a questionable viewing experience because everything that's in the film is in the short story.
But you have to then contend with Proulx's ranting of writings. She purports to author "prose" when she does, in fact, write in something like a beat-poetry style but I regard her work as immensely crude, and do not agree that it should be rewarded. She's deconstructed the English language to something akin to baking an egg on a sidewalk and then lapping it up right there where it lays. Pretty crude stuff, and that's even before you deal with the content she composes by way of that egg-frying method.
I'll pass and stick to the standard classics and the KLV.
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."This Time, Its the Sheeps' Turn"