38. Brokeback Mountain

March 12, 2019 in episode

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Annie Proulx’s Brokeback Mountain!

For this episode, we read and watched:

Annie Proulx’s original short story, first published in the New Yorker on October 13, 1997, an expanded version of which was published in Close Range: Wyoming Stories. Read Close Range on iBooks or Amazon.
Brokeback Mountain, the 2005 movie directed by Ang Lee, written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, and starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.

Footnotes:

limn, verb, to represent in drawing or painting; to portray in words; describe
Matthew Shepard
Our own episode on The Birdcage
Ang Lee, director of The Wedding Banquet, Sense and Sensibility, Hulk, and Brokeback Mountain
“Gene Shalit's Brokeback Mountain review angers gay rights group” from The Advocate
“No Man’s Land” from The New Republic
“Return to the Range” from The Wall Street Journal
Brokeback Mountain, the 2014 opera by composer Charles Wuorinen, with libretto by Annie Proulx

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37. True Grit

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Charles Portis’ True Grit!

For this episode, we read, watched, and discussed:

Charles Portis’ original 1968 novel. Read it on Amazon or iBooks.
The 1969 John Wayne movie of the same name, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne, produced by Hal B. Wallis, written by Marguerite Roberts, and starring John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell, Robert Duvall, and John Wayne. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
The 2010 movie adaptation, written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon, and Josh Brolin. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.

Footnotes:

Episode 11 of Adapt or Perish, The Fault in Our Stars
r/menwritingwomen
The Last of Us and Children of Men
“True Grit” written by Don Black and Elmer Bernstein, performed by Glen Campbell
Arielle’s thinking of Maureen McGovern in The Poseidon Adventure, not Karen Carpenter
When Jeremy said “John Wayne is just John Wayne,” and thought he was quoting The Birdcage, he was thinking of a line from Get Shorty. It’s important to him that you know that.
Rooster Cogburn, 1975, starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn
Cinematographer Roger Deakins
Actor Elizabeth Marvel
Theater director Ivo van Hove
Coen regular Peter Stormare
Joel & Ethan Coen - Shot/Reverse Shot from the YouTube channel Every Frame a Painting

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In this practically perfect episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss P.L. Travers’ Mary Poppins!

For this episode, we read and watched:

P.L. Travers’ original novel, published in 1934, the first in the Mary Poppins series which ran until 1988. Read it on iBooks or Amazon.
Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins, 1964, directed by Robert Stevenson, written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with music by Richard and Robert Sherman. Starring Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, and David Tomlinson. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
Saving Mr. Banks, 2013, directed by John Lee Hancock, written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith, and starring Emma Thompson as P.L. Travers and Tom Hanks as Walt Disney. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
Mary Poppins Returns, 2018, directed by Rob Marshall, written by David Magee, music by Marc Shaiman, and starring Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, and Emily Mortimer. Pre-order it on iTunes and Amazon.