I love Jean Genet.
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Platonic_Caveman — 4 years ago(August 31, 2021 06:09 AM)
Brad Davis! That's the guy in
Midnight Express
. That movie itself had some great homoerotica! It reminds me of Turkish prison jokes!
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I love hutch — 4 years ago(August 31, 2021 06:27 AM)
Oh, yes it sure did. I think I first saw "Midnight Express" when I was 16 or 17. The steamy shower scene with the sweet kiss (along with Moroder's romantic, pounding masochism) were almost too much to endure. But quite exhilarating at the same time.
The real Billy Davis wrote in his book that he did have some homosexual encounters while in the Turkish prison and I think he had a relationship with a friendly Norwegian man. It's a shame that the filmmakers didn't have the guts to allow Billy to enjoy the affections of his friend.
Still it's a great, intense scene!
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ToastedCheese — 4 years ago(August 31, 2021 06:49 AM)
It just couldn't quite go there. It implied something just about to happen and then copped out.
In the book, Billy gets seduced by the Scandinavian dude on a bunk bed. They pulled down the blankets over the side of the bunk and his friend coaxed him with….
"It's just sex Billy!"
… after Hayes was a bit reluctant at first.
Hamidou the closeted pig guard in the film, is based on 3 characters if I recall from the book.
Also Billy was in the asylum at the beginning of the book and was constantly felt up by the other inmates as they walked past him.
He escaped from an island prison by boat and into Istanbul and then found his way across the border into Greece where he was still detained until released by the Greek authorities.
I'm assuming here Gamey you haven't read the book, so excuse my presumption.
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ToastedCheese — 4 years ago(August 31, 2021 06:40 AM)
I haven't seen
Querelle
and I recall when it was screening at a film festival and I longed to see it, but I had no way of getting there late at night, not to mention a few years off the age restriction so it wasn't a guarantee I would have gotten in anyway.
Davis was a one of kind pot of honey. He was so well cast in
Midnight Express - 78'
, plus he could act as well.
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I love hutch — 4 years ago(August 31, 2021 06:50 AM)
He was perfectly cast in "Midnight Express". Everything about him was right for that role. The opening scene at the airport was nerve-wracking.
I just checked and "Querelle" is available for viewing here. All I will say for now is that it is different and that Brad Davis is hot throughout.
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ToastedCheese — 4 years ago(August 31, 2021 06:56 AM)
That opening is one of the best film openings ever. The entire film is first rate though, even if it deviates from the original source material. It gets the same point and theme across.
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ToastedCheese — 4 years ago(August 31, 2021 07:26 AM)
He was a very fortunate man and even though what he did was stupid, it was the extremity and criminal corruption of the system that needed to be exposed. Not that it makes any difference.
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I love hutch — 4 years ago(August 30, 2021 11:48 PM)
A clever putdown can be taken in stride, but this coarse thing came at me with no wit or point of view.
I think this is what they are talking about when the say "the banality of evil".
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I love hutch — 4 years ago(August 31, 2021 10:19 PM)
Really? I don't understand that at all. I would have thought that the admins (however many of them there are???) would have to be able to "get along" to a certain extent. And I thought that GB was Admin as well. So how does that work? The two of them don't exactly seem to be on the same page.
Anyway, admin or not, "Nimba" belongs to the species of
sub-cretin
, underdeveloped frontal lobe and all.
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ToastedCheese — 4 years ago(August 31, 2021 10:47 PM)
Anyway, admin or not, "Nimba" belongs to the species of sub-cretin, underdeveloped frontal lobe and all.
Cretins come in many forms and there are many unevolved frontal lobe neanderthals that troll on here.
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Platonic_Caveman — 4 years ago(September 01, 2021 02:54 AM)
Toasty, that homophobic moron is not Nimda.
C'mon, you're from IMDb. That's a poseur - Nimda, - with a comma after his name.
Nimda is very pro-LGBT.
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ToastedCheese — 4 years ago(September 01, 2021 09:31 AM)
The comma doesn't mean much to me, didn't even notice it, I just see a name.
Thanks for pointing that out though. Why don't you bar that user name, so it doesn't cause confusion?
There is a Nimba as well, as per introductory post to the board. Who is that?
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Platonic_Caveman — 4 years ago(September 01, 2021 04:02 PM)
Nimda is the site's owner and creator.
Nim
b
a is also Nimda.
Why don't you bar that user name, so it doesn't cause confusion?
I'll tag him.
@Nimda
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