This film has moved me like no other...

Rating: 10/10 (14 January 2006)

I have just seen the film "Brokeback Mountain" here in NYC, and this film has moved me like no other. I have looked up pertinent information on IMDb.com and am including it here, in case others have not noticed the original author or screenwriter's information.
The screenplay, by Larry McMurtry ("Lonesome Dove"), was based on a short story by E. Annie Proulx first published in the New Yorker in 1997. Proulx won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for "The Shipping News," another favorite film of mine.
"Her short story "Brokeback Mountain," which contains a character who is killed in a Wyoming gay-bashing, was published in The New Yorker in 1997, almost exactly one year before the real-life murder of gay Wyoming man Matthew Shepard. Proulx, who lived close to where Shepard was beaten, was called to but not selected for jury duty for the trial of Shepard's murders."
Proulx published her first novel at age 56. She was born in 1935 and McMurtry was born in 1936, so they are both around 70 years old. Maybe it's not all over for us yet!
I have read McMurtry's about cowboys and the west, and as the screenwriter here, he does the same terrific job he always does. It was filmed in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, so the scenery is stunning and well worth a trip to a "real big screen theater" which I haven't been to in many years.
I feel this film will change this country and this culture in ways we never could imagine, and it's long overdue. Tolerance and Understanding, or at least just "tolerance" would go a long way for all people to begin to get along and to live "free." Free from hate and fear, for starters.
"To enter heaven, one must bring it with them." Yours, Catherine Todd