この映画は私の観た映画の中のベスト20の上位につくであろう、と思うほど感動した作品です。しかし、英語学習歴20年を誇る私は、不覚にもイニスとジャックが何を言っているのか、全く聞き取れず、ぜひ脚本を読みたいと思っていました。早速アマゾンさんで購入してページを開くとなんと原作とセットになっているではありませんか！しかも脚本は恐らく監督や製作者そして俳優達用に書かれたものと同じだと察するほど、台詞以外の描写がきめ細かく書かれていて、映画をより理解するのに役立ちます。決して簡単に読める文章ではないと感じる一方、映画を観たから何が書かれているのか想像しやすく、さくさく読めます。本当に買って良かったと思います。「イニス、ジャック、あなた達はこう英語で言ってたのね！」と再び感動しています。

こんなに熱心に読んだのは久しぶりです。辞書を引き引きなので一進一退ならぬ一日１ページなのですが。こんな孤独な愛があるのだと、女性が書いたとも思えないざらついた、それでいて巧みな心理描写に打たれました。シナリオ付だったのが幸いして、かなり助かりました。是非この日本語訳も出版してほしいと思います。☆４個は己の未熟な英語力で読みきれない部分があったことなので作品はすばらしかったです。最近恋愛小説(？)なんて全く読んでいませんでしたが、久々に胸に堪えました。

I highly recommend any of Annie Proulx's work. 'Brokeback' is a short story not a novel, that has been expanded into a a full length feature film. The original Story appeared in the New Yorker in the Late 1990's and I remember being very touched by it back then. It was also interesting to read the McMurtry/Ossana screen play in which the roles of the women were enlarged--even created from scratch. There is a darkness to this story that troubled me, the underlying violent tensions. This is a raw story of true emotions. The actual movie bothered me because of the good looking actors portraying the main characters is not true to the story. I also do not care for all the 'straight' hype concerning this flick. It has become a badge of honor for straight men to go see this movie and prove how enlightened they are, while other men immediately demean it because of the subject matter. I don't think most straight men are ever going to be comfortable watching a gay cowboy movie with explicit sex, its just not in their DNA. It doesn’t make them bad its just the way they are (just like the characters Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar can't help the way they are). I also enjoyed the writers essays on bringing this story to the big screen. The book also includes Black and white photos from the movie--which again take away from the story for me as the actors do not look like the characters described in the book. The book concludes with the movies credits which is probably of interest to movie buffs, but meant nothing to me. In conclusion if you’re a big fan of the movie youll probably love this book.

Both the story and screenplay will move you to tears, make you feel like someone's pulling your guts out hand over hand a yard at a time, as Annie Proulx writes of Ennis. They will also make you treasure love more. The screenplay is one of the best I've read -- a terrific read and a faithful adaptation and expansion. If you're interested in delving deeper into the lives and loves of these characters and the starkly beautiful honesty of this world, buy this book. The screenplay and the essays by Annie Proulx and the two screenwriters, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, offer a good deal of insight and color, from the germ of an idea for a short story to final film. Fascinating and powerful.

Make you feel like someone's pulling your guts out hand over hand a yard at a time, as Annie Proulx writes of Ennis. They will also make you treasure love more. The screenplay is one of the best I've read -- a terrific read and a faithful adaptation and expansion. If you're interested in delving deeper into the lives and loves of these characters and the starkly beautiful honesty of this world, buy this book. The screenplay and the essays by Annie Proulx and the two screenwriters, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, offer a good deal of insight and color, from the germ of an idea for a short story to final film. Fascinating and powerful.