Naming yourself "The Gay Blade" apparently wasn't enough to break ground years ago so now we need Oliver Stone and Colin Farrell to do it for us!
"Breaking Ground With a Gay Movie Hero"
Even before I read this article, I have been intrigued by Alexander. Yes, Oliver Stone has made many bad movies. But, even his bad ones are interesting in a train wreck kind of way. But now I can't wait to see this film, preferably at Court St., with a sold out crowd of unsuspecting homophobes freaking out. Oh man, it is going to be classic!
The effete film critic and conservative talk show host Michael Medved predicts the mayhem that is heading to a theater near you!
"There's a certain audience out there that just loves war movies, battle movies - 'Braveheart,' 'Saving Private Ryan,' 'We Were Soldiers,' " he observed. "There are probably a bunch of people who will go to see 'Alexander' looking for a he-man, a superwarrior. When they find out he's playing for the other team, that will probably create a certain indignation in some of the audience."
A he-man, indeed!
But what if some impressionable young boys bear witness to such depraved and gloriously sinful debauchery?
"There will be people who see Alexander the Great's bisexuality as applauding that lifestyle, and unfortunately it will lead some young boys, young men down a path that I think they'll regret someday," said Bob Waliszewski, a film critic with Focus on the Family, a Christian group.
And how!
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I really worry about the impact of the right wing Christian groups upon our nation's kids. It aint about God, it's about right wing power using faith groups as a tool to politicise and spread their crooked message towards an impressionable section of society. As cool and immortal as the 16-25 group think they are, they are deeply impressionable. These groups know this and work upon their receptive impressionability.
And like? Are we going to make a sweeping bio pic about one of history's greatest bi-sexuals, famed as much for his voracious appetite for man, woman and boy as his military conquests and just not mention the 'rude'stuff?
Hey, I wont be watching Bridget Jones because it's likely to offend me, but i'm not calling for it's censorship. There is always that option. Don't like the movie? Stay at home.
no wonder stone cast angelina jolie in the film!
There were stories a few years back about Ben Affleck being interested in starring in a film of The Dreyfus Affair, a novel that I think I told L'maker and B'bop about but which you guys hadn't heard of.
It's about a major league baseball player, a shortstop, who is married and has kids but falls in love with his second baseman. They are caught on a surveillance camera somewhere and all hell breaks loose. In the end, the book's message is basically this: "America needs to get over itself about homosexuality, which is not a big deal and is really just people being themselves."
This article I read back in 2000 or 2001 mentioned Betty Thomas, who directed The Brady Bunch Movie, as a candidate for directing the movie. She was quoted saying something like, "Well, I don't know if we could make the movie quite like the book, because I don't know if America is ready for that yet." Which pissed me off to no end, because the whole damn point of the book is that if America isn't ready, then America is a damn idiot.
For all you readers out there, the Dreyfus Affair is by Peter Lefcourt. It's a decent subway or rainy day book. Not great literature, but funny and clever and a fast read.
What a joke that the NYT artice cites The Birdcage and In and Out as Hollywood's big steps forward in portraying homosexuality. Those are caricatures, not realistic portrayals. And they might have mentioned that regardless of what Hollywood does, dozens of independent movies every year feature prominent gay characters. The upshot of all this is: I am so glad I live in New York.
Are we really surprised that people out there in the great unwashed red wasteland react like this to the mere hint of ambiguous sexuality? They even freaked out over the sight of the decidedly hetrosexual Nicolette Sheridan's back on MNF, for God's sake.
Actually, maybe things are are little more subtle than that, as in hate the sin not the sinner. Therefore, moppety little Clay Aitken becomes America's sweetheart as long as he ignores his heart and sings about girls. Uber-hetro Colin Farrell can only portray heroes who don't go in for uphill gardening.
Next they will be insisting that we unravel all our cassette tapes and drape them over stop signs as warnings to unbelievers. I already hear that Alabama is moving to ammend its constitution to ban the flying of kites.
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