She hit back at the fanfic writers, saying: “That’s not the story I wrote. “It’s about homophobia it’s about a social situation it’s about a place and a particular mindset and morality.” Before the film it was all right….They can’t understand that the story isn’t about Jack and Ennis. “I wish I’d never written the story,” she said. Proulx told the Paris Review she is regularly sent rewrites of her original story “including all kinds of boyfriends and new lovers and so forth after Jack is killed”. It’s been credited with ushering in a new age of queer cinema, however for Proulx, “it’s just been the cause of hassle and problems and irritation”. Annie Proulx, who wrote the short story that inspired the Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain, says she wishes she’d never written it because so many people miss the point of it.Īng Lee’s adaptation of Proulx’s Brokeback Mountain broke new ground when it was released in 2005, winning Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score among other accolades.
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