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Brokeback Mountain influenced Brokeback Mountain
Added by Media Influence Map · 23 September 2026
The evidence
Annie Proulx's short story ran in the New Yorker in 1997 and is about thirty pages long. Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana's screenplay expands the two marriages the story compresses into sentences, and keeps Proulx's ending intact.
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