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The Latest Brokeback LawsuitThis story comes to us courtesy of BlackNews.com by way of Towleroad
 
Author Janice Scott-Blanton has filed a $250 million copyright infringement lawsuit against the makers of Brokeback Mountain claiming similarities between scenes in the movie and scenes from her 2005 novel, My Husband is on the Down Low and I Know About It.
"To support her allegations, Scott-Blanton has cataloged over 50 substantial similarities between the two bodies of work; these similarities range from subtle to the stark." Some of those "stark" similairites include scenes in a bar, a bedroom, and a kitchen.
Add this to the list of seemingly spurious lawsuits directed at the Ang Lee film. (Anyone remember Randy Quaid's suit about a year back?)
Given the fact that Brokeback Mountain was based on a 1997 Annie Proulx short story and the fact that the screenplay for it was completed in 2004 (both dates which precede Scott-Blanton's novel), I think this latest lawsuit stands a pretty good chance of getting dismissed. But I'm thinking Scott-Blanton knows that, and this frivolous suit is just a creative way to draw some publicity to her novel. For what it's worth, it is currently ranked #478,448 for book sales on Amazon.
I'm curious to see if the Amazon sales ranking improves as a result of the lawsuit announcement, though on principle I refuse to provide the link here.Submitted by on Mon, 2007-01-29 00:39. |
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The lawsuit is ridiculous. She just wants money and attention.
She doesn't understand that gay people have similiar (not exact) stories like other groups do.
apparently she's never been to a gay film festival, or she would realize she's just embarssing herself
Given the timeframe here (the story originally published in 1997, the script written at least by 1999--when Movieline magazine included it among Hollywood's best un-produced screenplays--and filming begun by June 2004), isn't she setting herself up for a countersuit of plagiarism? Smart, real smart.
I've been gay for years and years, and I've done all the stuff they did in the movie (except herd cattle), so I deserve a piece of the pie too!!
She's crazy indeed.
A person who could sue *her* & Brokeback Mountain writer and producers, is John G. Young who directed a low budget gay movie called "Parallel Sons" in 1995. It's about an interacial gay romance on the backdrop of a murder in a homophobic US small town..which leds to the escape of the lovers to the mountains and other wood cabins where their relationship develops.
Both films have the same dark, gloomy, slow pace and both end tragically for one of the characters. So it's quite clear that BBM was inspired by this film, or both are inspired by a third one we have yet to discover.
Screen caps from the movie (30 photos)
http://tinyurl.com/2zhntn
Well of course it's going to be similar to past films and works but you could say that about any present work by any artist. There is no new material only new people to interpret it as they see fit, and a new audience to receive it.
Yes, cinematically, films borrow from each other all the time: Anthony Minghella's romantic epics (The English Patient, Cold Mountain) are heavily indebted to David Lean's romantic epics (Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter); and James Cameron's Titanic borrows its visual and thematic motifs from The Wizard of Oz.
That doesn't mean they're plagiarising those films.
That I know, artists get inspired by each other's work all the time..
I was just making a point about BBM and the aura of infallibility that surrounds it, when it's a less (way less) than perfect film.
I hate myths, and as Madonna said "myths are meant to be broken".
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