But you can have a hypermasculine movie that isn’t particularly homoerotic. Like, say, “Unforgiven” or “Reservior Dogs” or “Predator”.
A movie becomes homoerotic when the relationships between these macho men become less than businesslike. And when they oil themselves and wear leather panties. And talk and talk about their relationship.
What should these guys have worn to appear more businesslike? Burkhas? That’s a good way to show off a buff muscular body. It’s not like these guys were laying around lovingly slathering oil over each other. I’ll have to re-watch, but I don’t remember anything like that.
You know how I know you’re gay? Because you were watching 300 with a bunch of Marines and checking out their hyper-masculine abs.
If the actual Marine Corps is anything like it is portrayed in Jarhead, Heartbreak Ridge or Generation Kill, I would rank it in at least the top 5 gay organizations.
I’m sure a lot of Marines would threaten to chew off my balls and fuck me in the ass for making such a statement.
Don’t forget Full Metal Jacket. “I bet you’re the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the god damned common courtesy to give him a reach around!!!”
Not to mention the great big RAINBOW COLORED smokescreen at the end of the movie. That’s about as subtle as a 16 pound sledgehammer. A gay sledgehammer.
“Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, they codenamed the damned thing ‘Bassoon Prime’ and made it look like a giant silver phallus; I believe you can only conclude that the operation had some major gay influence…”
Well, no. That is, not in Interview With the Vampire. Lestat is already a vampire when Louis meets him, and Rice vampires are entirely sexless – exchanging blood is the nearest they can come to sex in any form. (I’ve been waiting for years for Rice to introduce the fairly obvious scenario of two vamps 69ing on each other’s femoral arteries, but maybe that would be too blatant even for her.) In The Vampire Lestat, there is a strongly implied homosexual relationship between Lestat and another character, but that is before he is vampirized.