Bisexual Alexander angers Greeks
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chickenGreek lawyers are threatening to sue the makers of film epic Alexander for showing the ruler as bisexual.
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Date: 2004-11-22 12:56 pm (UTC)I'm not implying that all Greek men of the time were homosexual. I'm saying that it wasn't taboo at all, but completely accepted.
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Date: 2004-11-22 01:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-22 01:07 pm (UTC)Their objections are ridiculous.
This was my favorite quote: "an explorer in the deepest sense of the word"
BWAHAHAHAHA!
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Date: 2004-11-22 02:00 pm (UTC)Who was in Maurice?
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Date: 2004-11-22 02:36 pm (UTC)Maurice had James Wilby, Hugh Grant, and Rupert Graves. A far superior film.
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Date: 2004-11-22 05:46 pm (UTC)I loved Maurice. It was sooooo sad. I felt so sorry for everyone involved. No one was able to be who they really were or love who they really loved. But the ending was rather hopeful, if I remember it correctly. Wasn't it a loosely fictionalized biography of E.M. Forster's life? Am I imagining that?
Another Country was sad too. It makes you wonder how many lives have been compromised or destroyed by homophobia.
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Date: 2004-11-22 06:58 pm (UTC)Yes, the ending was quite hopeful, and the movie therefore stands out very prominently as one of the few queer movies ever to have such a happy ending. In a sea of 1980s and 1990s movies with AIDS, death, AIDS, sickness, death, beating (think Torch Song Trilogy), and more death, we have a gem of a movie that not only has a happy ending but that also has a rather subversive cross-class romance. Especially then, but even now, the upper classes in Britain just didn't have romances with the lower class. It was quite frowned upon, and the upper class person was fairly renouncing their social position by going with a lower-class person, regardless of sexual orientation. Really quite powerful. And yes, I do believe it is semi-autobiographical, and only published after his death, I think.
Another Country was sad too. It makes you wonder how many lives have been compromised or destroyed by homophobia.
So many as to lose count of them all, sadly. The deep shame and self-hatred are almost worse than the hatred of those around the person in question. It's so evil. :-(
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Date: 2004-11-23 07:14 am (UTC)To Hollywood, the only safe *gay* films are about AIDS, gay bashing, gay murder, or funny gay sidekicks.
They're so afraid to portray the ordinary gay love story, or the ordinary gay life in an extraordinary way.
If more of the closeted gay and lesbian actors would come out, maybe society would come to realize, "Huh? They're just like us, everyday Joes."
But on the other hand, I know that the ordinary gay teenager coming out in Oklahoma or Mississippi, or Texad or whatever, is not going to have the resources and the support that an actor or actress and Hollywood would get.
I felt so sorry for the guys in Another Country. It made my heart ache and my stomache hurt for days.
I don't know why the world just can't let people be.
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Date: 2004-11-23 12:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-22 02:15 pm (UTC)Oh, and icon love! Such a great movie.
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