Monday, February 27, 2006

Gay films I want to see (Part One)

Romeo and Julian - enough said; just please, don't cast LeonardoDiCaprio in it - I mean, did you see his take on Arthur Rimbaud in Total Eclipse?
The Ghost and Mrs Muir - saw it again tonight (the lighting! the pathos!) and want to see a modernised queer version. In fact, maybe I'll just write it myself....
Rebel with a Cause - in which Sal Mineo's Plato tenderly consoles Jimmy Dean's Jim Stark after Judy (Natalie Wood) has been blown away by the jacks.
Robin Hood and his Merry Men - academics tell us that Maid Marion was a late addition to the story cycle, so just what were Robin and Much the Miller's Son doing together during all those years in the greenwood, hmmm?
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid - the movie that set the trend for homosocial buddy movies for years to come is allegedy to be remade, with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in the lead roles. For starters, how gay is that? Secondly, all I want to know is, will they pash each other before they jump off the cliff or before they burst out guns blazing to fatally face the Mexican police? The subtext was always there, folks; don't tell me you haven't seen it!

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