Jake LaMotta, You Are Ghetto Fabulous
David Thomson on gay themes in major Hollywood films, including Raging Bull, The Godfather, and Casablanca:
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/features/story.jsp?story=628170
Raging Bull, specifically, has always carried an air of homosexuality in my mind - La Motta's comparison of his hands to Joe Louis's, etc. The Godfather seems like a bit of a stretch, but there are so many films that deal with the idea of intensely manly themes, men living with men and only wanting men, that sort of thing. I won't dismiss it. A few others off the top of the head:
1. "Fight Club" - "We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is what we need."
2. "The Wild Bunch" the big death scene at the end, with Ernest Borgnine sighing "Pike...Pike."
3. A lot of Michael Mann films seem to have at least a hint of this. "Heat." "Collateral." "The Insider." You could chalk it up to chauvinism, but Mann's attitude towards women isn't mean or insulting; he just doesn't have any idea what to do with them.
4. Sodebergh's Ocean movies.
5. "Platoon." That's right.
posted by Seb @ 2:24 PM
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It seems like its pretty easy to find these themes if you really want to find them, I mean, we could throw "The Gravekeeper" and "Getting Away" on the list as well.
does anyone read this far down in the blog? I've been at work for 4 days.
Just as in ancient Greece, men of the wild west (Wild Bunch, Good Bad Ugly) had only other men around and bonds grew tight. Gayness is a complete life attitude and if one doesn't have it, one can be as gay as one wants and still not be gay. Clint was practically doing Tuco in the butt but Clint's about as ungay as they come.
Ungay...isn't that a country in South America? Presumably they do manly things like riding horses...wait, that involves chaps, never mind. They probably engage in contact sports...which are the breeding ground for a windmill-armed "good games." Apparently Ungay is pretty gay. They must be suffering from the consequences of letting in to many illegal immigrants from their neighbor, Waygay.
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