WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Robert Altman, Hal Ashby
Homoerotic subtext to this forum when you think about itThere's probably a homoerotic subtext to Adam Curtis when you think about it
How could you possibly refer to a thread tagged with #VersionsThrobbingPenis as homoerotic? Think you're reading into things, Shiels.Homoerotic subtext to this forum when you think about it
Cruising
Homoerotic subtext to this forum when you think about it
Have you seen it? How does it comoare to the other friedkinsLuke should watch Cruising.
Have you seen it? How does it comoare to the other friedkins
Yeah, it's good. Not as good as Sorcerer, To Live and Die in L.A. or The French Connection, but worth watching. It's really odd and the soundtrack bangs.
I think the stories about how it was made and how it was received are much better than the film itself.
I think the stories about how it was made and how it was received are much better than the film itself.
Finally watched Cruising last night. Loved it. When it looked like the killer would be neatly wrapped up I was a bit disappointed, but Friedkin knocked it out of the park by pulling back and piling on layers and layers of ambiguity instead.
Wonder whether Master and Commander . . . ending on the same piece was just a coincidence or some sort of nod.
It's tempting to read it as an AIDS metaphor, but you'd have to do it in a retroactive, 'death of the author' sense as the film came out a year or so before the first clinical reports. I'm sure someone's written a paper on it or something though, Pacino coming into contact with and, via transmission, seemingly taking on the form of a killer specifically targeting gay men in 80s New York.
I stuck a bit of the commentary on after finishing it and Friedkin said that bizarre bit with the guy in the jockstrap and cowboy hat at the police station was a real cop who actually did that during interrogations because it would rattle people and sound so unbelievable that the victim would seem like they were full of shit if they tried to report it to a judge or anyone who might be able to help.
The stuff with the police is one of the more intriguing aspects of the film, imo. There's this tension between the institutional phobias of the organisation, the personal phobias of the officers and the actual conduct of the officers, i.e. the policies of the department are hostile to queer people and the officers harass and abuse and insult them, but a couple of them are seen forcing sexual favours out of people on the street, one of them's seen in the clubs and the department itself has this guy walking around in a jockstrap and cowboy hat, roughing up prisoners, and employs at least one person as an informant.