"Now let's discuss the lesbian undertones of QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE and CAT WOMEN OF THE MOON."
There cannot possibly be ANY denying that!
And now I have to keep repeating to myself: "Almost nobody who likes film music has a sense of humor... almost nobody who likes film music has a sense of humor... almost nobody who likes film music has a sense of humor..."
"And now I have to keep repeating to myself: "Almost nobody who likes film music has a sense of humor... almost nobody who likes film music has a sense of humor... almost nobody who likes film music has a sense of humor..."
And I mean, come on, that artwork alone, there is something particular about it, isn't it?
Now you mention it, I can also see how folks partial to a bit of bestiality now and then might see suggestive undertones in the artwork for the Lassie booklets. Clear as day once you can translate the images as they were intended.
It's funny but I was reading a back issue of Video Watchdog to refresh my memory concerning some missing shots and the misalignment of the ending music queues in the previous DVD release of "Once Upon a Time in the West" (prompted by an upcoming bluray release announced in another thread) when I ran across a discussion of "The Hitcher". Apparently "The Hitcher" DVD special edition has a 2nd disc containing a documentary with interviews of the actors, etc. Quoting from the VW article:
...To Hauer, the film was a “strange, horrible fairy tale” and a “love story” between the two male leads “on a very strange level,” which he played up by invading the physical space of his co-star. Of these “homo-erotic energies,” Howell claims he wasn’t aware of them. “I was just coming to work every day trying my hardest.”...
So it's no wonder we can't agree if sometimes even the lead actors in any given film are on different planets!
It's funny but I was reading a back issue of Video Watchdog to refresh my memory concerning some missing shots and the misalignment of the ending music queues in the previous DVD release of "Once Upon a Time in the West" (prompted by an upcoming bluray release announced in another thread) when I ran across a discussion of "The Hitcher". Apparently "The Hitcher" DVD special edition has a 2nd disc containing a documentary with interviews of the actors, etc. Quoting from the VW article:
...To Hauer, the film was a “strange, horrible fairy tale” and a “love story” between the two male leads “on a very strange level,” which he played up by invading the physical space of his co-star. Of these “homo-erotic energies,” Howell claims he wasn’t aware of them. “I was just coming to work every day trying my hardest.”...
So it's no wonder we can't agree if sometimes even the lead actors in any given film are on different planets!
EXCELLENT observation, John! Thanks for sharing about Hauer's comments.
I think a fine line exists in this thread between what is being "observed" by the originator and those who see what he sees...and those who abhor the very suggestion of what he says he observed and simply won't accept that it might be there for some if it isn't there for them.
with all the things going on in the world this on the bottom of my list.
Shakespeare expressed a similar sentiment in Love's Labours Lost, 1588:
Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean, Needs not the painted flourish of your praise: Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye, Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues
so if thats what you see in the movie God Bless and get ON with it.
...To Hauer, the film was a “strange, horrible fairy tale” and a “love story” between the two male leads “on a very strange level,” which he played up by invading the physical space of his co-star. Of these “homo-erotic energies,” Howell claims he wasn’t aware of them. “I was just coming to work every day trying my hardest.”...
Both Wyler and Heston referred to the fact that the key love story in Ben-Hur was not that of Judah and Esther, but that of Judah and Messala. That doesn't mean they were talking of homosexual love, any more than the bible is trying to suggest anything homoerotic by saying Jesus was loved by the men in his flock.
