[lbo-talk] Re: Brokeback Mountain: A review by David McReynolds

[Jim Devine]

> Michael Ventura, who wrote (writes?) screenplays says that the dictum
in writing meetings is to make sure people walk out of the film happy.


> What other ending would have made people happier? Crying cathartically is  consistent with a happy ending.<

a UFO swoops down and grabs both Ennis and Jake, taking them to the
gay planet, where they live happily ever after?
--
Jim Devine
"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an
intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James Baldwin