Posted on 03/26/2021 3:59:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Well, I never saw “Brokeback Mountain”, but I think I’ve read all of McMurtry’s novels, and I probably own at least half of them. Great writer, even if his characters in later books seemed to spend all their time bickering.
RIP, Larry.
I think that was the first McMurtry novel I ever read, nearly 50 years ago. If I had to pick a favorite, though, it might be “Cadillac Jack”.
I had to read “Horseman, Pass By” in college. It was made into the movie Hud. RIP.
FWIW, Annie Proulx wrote “Brokeback Mountain”, which McMurtry adapted for his screenplay.
The worst thing about Brokeback was that it glorified a deserter, not the homosexuality thing. I heard that and I never wanted to read it.
My mother taught me not to speak ill of the dead, so I will not say what I am thinking.
He didn’t write the book, but he wrote the screenplay for the movie.
I remember there were some Brokeback Mountain Posters that showed one of the characters with his wife and baby, giving no clue about what the movie really was about, to trick people into going to see it.
Well, since Brokeback became a major symbolic work to push homosexuality, that’s what they want to remember about him.
I liked “The Last Picture Show.” I thought “Brokeback Mountain” was a comedy.
RIP.
That wasn’t a problem here at FR. We all knew about it and those of us who wished to avoid it did so.
Excellent.
He wrote wonderfully about the true grit and courage of cowboys and the cowboy heritage.
Virtue and determination of those men and tough times, gawd, so accurately depicted in Lonesome Dove. My university has a Lonesome Dove western historical display, with all sorts of memorabilia from the movie, from weapons to the wood door where the body of Gus was carried. Many items donated by Robert Duval and McMurtry.
He did NOT demystify the West.
Hell you think that was bad. I thought the Crying Game was about the IRA. They caught me flat footed when they deviant turned around. Yikes.
He write fine novels Terms of Endearment, Last Picture Show , Hud ,
Yeah cuz that’s what he is best known for /s
Lonesome Dove....most people thank God never saw the queer movie.....I guess every writer thinks they need to do a queer book to get his street “cred”.
I didn’t know he wrote Brokeback Mountain..
He didn’t.
“The Last Picture Show was great.”
Yes, it was.
The Last Picture Show was great.
AMEN, a great movie. In the book the town was Thalia, my mothers hometown. She picked cotton from age 4-16. Dad loved to garden and all us boys still do, she hated plants.
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