IdleRich
IdleRich
One of the worst for that kind of thing is the film Clue, when the gay character solves the mystery and in the process of exposition reveals himself to be some kind of undercover agent, his final flourish "Now I'm going home... to my wife and kids!" - don't worry viewers, the hero isn't a deviant after all! Even when I was at primary school I remember thinking, is this ok?
I notice now they commonly invert this to show the innate decency of a character. If you have a period drama set in a time when homosexuality was illegal and hated/feared by the mainstream they will often show the hero rising above this and admonishing those who succumb to the prejudices of the time. Nice idea I guess but seems a bit artificial.
I used to go out with a girl who insisted that her sense of right and wrong was entirely free from context, she intuitively understood that a person cannot own another and so even if she had been a wealthy person in Ancient Rome or whatever she would have hated slavery, not owned slaves... in fact she would have probably campaigned to end it. And the same was true of all other prejudices we think we have now dispensed with... whatever era she had been born into she would never have thought newly discovered tribes or other races were inferior, she would have never countenanced homophobia and so on. I wish that I could be so sure of my moral rectitude and strength of character, it must be great to believe so strongly in yourself.
I notice now they commonly invert this to show the innate decency of a character. If you have a period drama set in a time when homosexuality was illegal and hated/feared by the mainstream they will often show the hero rising above this and admonishing those who succumb to the prejudices of the time. Nice idea I guess but seems a bit artificial.
I used to go out with a girl who insisted that her sense of right and wrong was entirely free from context, she intuitively understood that a person cannot own another and so even if she had been a wealthy person in Ancient Rome or whatever she would have hated slavery, not owned slaves... in fact she would have probably campaigned to end it. And the same was true of all other prejudices we think we have now dispensed with... whatever era she had been born into she would never have thought newly discovered tribes or other races were inferior, she would have never countenanced homophobia and so on. I wish that I could be so sure of my moral rectitude and strength of character, it must be great to believe so strongly in yourself.