film quibbles

[burntcopper]

Am sulking. The film Threesome? complete bastards. Both blokes have sex with the girl, one of the blokes completely fancies the other one, but no more than a hand on the hip during the threesome sex. After making a drunken pass at him.

Me and dolores feel that if it was British, there would have been sex. We Brits may be repressed but we know how to handle our homoeroticism and show our audience a good time. We, for example, would not have left it to the last sodding episode of Xena for a snog. In our world the blokes would've got together after the girl departed for another apartment. The drunken confession would have ended in sex.

Comments

[dolores.livejournal.com]

Just look at Maurice - may have been a cauldron of repressed homosexual desire but we got the gay kissage all the same. British Films With A Gay Theme: They Deliver!

[juleskicks.livejournal.com]

You see, here in America, we have this thing where anything that makes us uncomfortable, we pretend doesn't exist, and deny all knowledge of its actual existence. And for many Americans, [paranoid look around, whisper] people who've got the gay [/whisper] are among things like that.

And then we act surprised when people make fun of us for things like that. It's what makes us great.

(That and strategery.)

[antheia.livejournal.com]

Have actually had a conversation of a similar nature with my dad, an upper middle class public school boy circa the mid to late fifties.

He and I both figure that the homosexual behaviour that goes on quite rampantly in boarding school (a sentiment which I choose not to imagine anywhere near my dad, thank you) is to blame/thank.

This point was driven home by Stephen Fry in his autobiography, Moab is My Washpot.

[lm.livejournal.com]

America's current viewpoint:

Multiple partners are okay as long as the men are heterosexual. Homosexuality is okay as long as it's women and they're still interested in men. Gayness in film is okay as long as all homosexual relationships are treated just like heterosexual relationships, and as long as two men don't have sex onscreen. Promiscuity in film is okay as long as it's heterosexual, and eventually leads to either a happy marriage or utter tragedy.

Basically, the studios seem to be saying, "We're openminded and we have no rules. Unless you break them."