not just any arcade game - a fighting game, in a nice little meta-nodhe just beats him at some arcade game
Yeah it's obviously a conscious choice but for me it was a surprising one. I that - at least stereotypically - your red-blooded Italian tough guy is just as homophobic as the as the US version. It's not a competition or anything though.yeah but that's different, it's a conscious choice to play against type
and you couldn't get more self-consciously queer in 1982 than Rainer Werner Fassbinder adapting a Jean Genet novel
also, it's Europe, which never attained the ultra-masculine/homoerotic heights of American action
In Monaco Forever, one of his earliest roles, he's just listed as "Gay Karate Man".it's interesting cos 70s action stars - Eastwood, Bronson, Burt Reynolds, etc - were super careful about that
projecting ultra-masculinity in a way that can't be coded as queer
then you get to the 80s and it's just an explosion of shirtless dudes with gleaming pecs slathered in baby oil
which JCVD I think avoids by, in fact, having an inherent sexual ambiguity tho his litheness of person and movement
so it never looks like he's trying super hard to be straight, he's just being himself
vs the muscle gays fisting each other vibe of something like, say, Commando
I'm not taking about Americans or Europeans, just their respective action movie traditionsIt's not a competition or anything though
I'm about to watch that one. I was going to watch Black Eagle, but the links were dead, so Cyborg's next.here's some of the best stuff in Cyborg
just by actually being in bed with a woman that scene is already 100% less gay than every Arnold film besides maybe the first Conanbut he's just stood there posing with his arse out
oh you're in for a treat. it's actually pretty good by the standards of post-apocalyptic 80s flicks.I'm about to watch that one. I was going to watch Black Eagle, but the links were dead, so Cyborg's next.
You're right... I was so busy talking about how surprising it was that I didn't mention it being brave. But it is.I'm not taking about Americans or Europeans, just their respective action movie traditions
it is a surprising choice, and courageous, especially in that it specifically plays against his image of Franco Nero, tough guy
the kind of choice Eastwood/Reynolds etc never came close to making
“It would be abnormal not to have had an affair, she’s so beautiful and she was there in front of me every day with a beautiful smile, simpatico, so charming, she wasn’t acting like a big star. I knew Thailand very well, so I showed her my Thailand. She’s a great lady.”
woah I have not but that is a crazy imageHave you seen the one where he's disguised as a Hasidic Jew and and getting chased around Jerusalem?
have to respect the brazenness and/or Frenchness (or, Walloon) of the "abnormal not to have had an affair" defense tho"My Thailand."
have to respect the brazenness and/or Frenchness (or, Walloon) of the "abnormal not to have had an affair" defense tho
"look, she's a great lady. what am I supposed to, not have an affair with her? [shakes head, chuckles ruefully, lights Gauloise]"It would've been criminal not to