Sure Pilot might have been a lil curious but Jack was totally straight, they were just bestfriends. You gay guys do kno
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shrinkrapt β 20 years ago(March 21, 2006 01:55 AM)
The point about homoeroticism is that it IS subtextual. You're not gonna get any kissing or obvious moves, because then it becomes textual (homosexual). The two are completely different things.
I just watched this the other day, and the gay subtext is very clear to me. Not just from Pilot, but also Jack. AND also from the director. Of the three main characters, the camera lingers most on Jack - fetishises him. He is presented as the ideal beautiful youth. His figure, face, and eyes are caressed by the camera (the male gaze). When he manages to come inside Cassie, we are made to watch him for a very long time, and he is presented as beautiful and ecstatic. Cassie is a prop - something for the two boys to get into conflict over - but really she could have been anything.
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pumpkinrosie β 20 years ago(March 28, 2006 05:45 PM)
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Total kudos (bisexual, female, slah writer here too :P)
Everyone is different. They're all gonna see different things someone doesn't see the gay subtext? shrug Their loss!
I wish they'd come out with a deleted scenes version. I liked the subtlety but I can always go for some hot boy on boy action.
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bond_girl26 β 20 years ago(March 28, 2006 07:52 PM)
I never suspected anything on homosexuality. I felt that Cassie was just in the way of friendship, like in many other stories. But now that I think about it, it does seem likely. It hit me why Johnny asked if Pilot was jealous. And the whole thing about now wanting to go to the Dan D. Fine. But the whole after the whole Amy and Lucy thing, I don't really care anymore. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't. This movie is amazing. I wish they would put out more stuff for it. Was it out in theatres? I'd never heard of it until recently when I became a Jake fan.
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riverviewantique β 19 years ago(May 14, 2006 06:40 PM)
I read that it didnt do good in a test showing so it sat on a shelf and then they dvded it in 2002. Its obvious that Pilot and Jack were inseparable all their lives till the right girls finally came along and they had to go their separate ways. the same thing happened to me at that age.
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eramduasvezes β 19 years ago(June 28, 2006 04:34 PM)
Plot Keywords for
Highway (2002)
-Independent Film
-Body Painting
-Boyhood Friends
-Drug Dealing
-Fugitive
-Love Triangle
-Mobster
-Road Movie
-Unrequited Love
-HOMOSEXUAL SUBTEXT
-Las Vegas Nevada
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Psylocke83 β 18 years ago(October 18, 2007 03:31 PM)
Ofcourse there was homoerotic subtextuals in the movie!
One would have to be blind and deaf not to notice.
Pilot didn't sleep with the prostitute; like everyone else has said he just talked to her, and she said "sexual confusion" instead of other words such as "sexually frustration". If he did have sex with her, the director would have needed to have a small sex scene or atleast some talk of the sex itself to show the viewers that Pilot had beaten his problem.
There were so many moments throughout the film that hinted for (atleast one-sided) Pilot/Jack that it wouldn't make sense if he wasn't supposed to have a crush on Jack. There were a few moments with Jack as well but it felt more or less like he was jealous over losing Pilot's love/admiration for him to some 'fantasy girl' Pilot had met two years earlier. I believe Pilot went back to Lucy at the end because Jack was happy with Cassie, or perhaps for the same reason as stated below.
To me, Cassie seemed to be just some kind of lifeless doll they threw in at the last minute in order to not make Highway a "gay movie" and thus fail with getting an audience (which surely wouldn't be the case).
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Further gay innuendos in the movie was when Shanks asked Pilot if he liked alligator dick, and if Jack likes to get f-ed.
And what was it with Shannon Leto and the guys started to undress Pilot at the club?
Loved shrinkrapt's comment to this thread; her point about the director and Jack is too true!
I just watched this the other day, and the gay subtext is very clear to me. Not just from Pilot, but also Jack. AND also from the director. Of the three main characters, the camera lingers most on Jack - fetishises him. He is presented as the ideal beautiful youth. His figure, face, and eyes are caressed by the camera (the male gaze). When he manages to come inside Cassie, we are made to watch him for a very long time, and he is presented as beautiful and ecstatic. Cassie is a prop - something for the two boys to get into conflict over - but really she could have been anything.
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caspers_mystical_univers β 18 years ago(October 21, 2007 01:27 AM)
I recently got the movie from netflix but it skipped throughout and at the end it didn't want to play at all so i have no idea what happened and i don't feel like sending away for it again just for that. can anyone tell me what happened at the very very end?
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Occult_Detective β 12 years ago(April 03, 2014 08:14 AM)
The credits show that the two characters were friends since childhood. Is it possible for two males to be able to care for each other without wanting to have sex? Can friendship exist these days without people trying to find homosexual subtext in everything? Jack constantly refers to Pilot as "Bro." To me, this stands for "Brother," as in, they've been friends for so long that they consider each other family, like brothers, not married lovers. I don't know, I'm not looking for it, so I'm not seeing ay "signs" or "hints." I see them as two guys who are just friends, like many of the friendships I've had with my buddies all my life. Somehow, we've made it thirty years without checking out each others asses. But, whatever floats someones boat. I just don't see it. If I wanted to watch a movie about two men finding gay love in each other, I'd watch Brokeback Mountain.
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