Weren’t the homosexual acts in Midnight Express totally left out of the movie?
The Fab Five have let themselves become eunuchs for the kingdom of Mammon. The show’s all about product placement, while showcasing a homogenised anodyne version of this neutered (homo)sexuality.
There’s a scene in the “Midnight Express” movie where a guy comes up behind Billy Hayes (in the shower, I think), puts his arms around him and basically asks for sex. Hayes turns him down.
And I’m glad that someone else has replied to the “Bruce Banner” nonsense. Kenneth Johnson, in his commentary on the DVD release of “The Incredible Hulk” movie, also points out that the rumor is false, and as stated above, he simply dislikes alliterative names.
Sir Rhosis
Aye, there’s none so queer as folk.
Genius.
And in reality, Billy Hayes had sex with men while in prison. He did not, however, bite out anyone’s tongue, spitting it into the air in a slow motion spray of blood. But in the movie the sex was out but the tongue biting was in.
I thought he appeared in the flashback, when Elizabeth Taylor’s character finally told what had happened to him?
At least in this movie, cryptic and eliptical as her explanation is, the idea that Sebastian is attracted to men and, oddly enough, used his pretty girl-cousin to draw them, does come through. When Vivien Leigh’s Blanche in Streetcar talks about her young husband, the most we get is that he’s “sensitive” and poetic. I grew up with this version of Streetcar; the first time I saw an unabridged performance of the play, it surprised me how much more she had to say about him.
One could argue that Sebastian Venable isn’t allowed to appear in Tennessee Williams’ play, either. A major theme of the play is that we know him only through the subjective accounts of others. The movie opened the narrative up to show Sebastian, although we never see his face.
Right, his body appears on-screen but not his face, which is what I was trying (poorly) to express.
Not having read the play, I think saying he “wasn’t allowed” to appear is perhaps a mischaracterization. The play begins well after his death, and AFAIK there was nothing equivalent to the Hayes/Breen office mandating that he not appear on stage, so his not appearing was a choice based on structure rather than censorship. Williams could have included flashback scenes including Sebastian, but chose not to structure the play in that fashion.
Yes, once I saw Walloon’s message above, I remembered and realized that’s what you meant.
Actually, the gay man dead and unseen before the play opens, but with the aftereffects of his death being very important to the story, is fairly standard for Tennessee Williams–Sebastien Venables, Blanche’s husband, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’s Skipper all fall into that category…
(Noted in the other thread.) The 1946 film version of The Big Sleep (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Sleep), OTOH, glosses over a couple of things made very clear in the book, and without which the plot doesn’t make much sense: (1) The mysterious “bookstore” where Marlowe’s investigation begins is actually a rental pornography business. (2) Carol Lundgren is Arthur Geiger’s gay lover and is acting to avenge his death.
No cite, but I read once that as 54 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120577/) was originally filmed, Shane, Anita and Greg formed a bisexual three-way menage. Studio execs required the ending to be entirely revised, rewritten and re-shot before theatrical release.
James Van Der Beek had a graphic gay sex scene in a movie (I think this one) that was removed by the studio (and to the great relief of his agent) for ratings purposes. (It was graphic enough that Van Der Beek’s character was known to be the bottom by those who saw it.)
Gorblimey, how heavily *has * it been edited for the Chinese market?
How much gayer could Queer Eye get?
For the foreign market they digitally removed Carson and replaced him with James Garner.
I heard.
Plenty. Get five gay men in the same room together, and I can assure you that the conversation would only be fit for premium cable.
Only in Singapore. Hong Kong’s more conservative - they’d never use the star of gender-bending Victor Victoria. We get Rock Hudson.
I heard that the screenplay for Bend It Like Beckham had lesbian content, but they tossed it. shame; if there’d been lesbianism I might’ve had some interest in watching it.
The only reason they binned it was because the money men didn’t think it would wash in a flick about birds who enjoyed playing with balls.