Brokeback ad infinitum

Proulx is immensely pleased with the finished film, though she had her doubts. "I was very worried," she says. "I thought the landscape would be lost, the dialogue would be changed, sentimentality would creep in. I met with Ang Lee twice and I was very suspicious. But I remember him saying that his father had recently died, and just something in the way he said it, I had an inkling that he might use some of that grief, transfer some of his personal grief into this film. I think that actually happened."