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Pamela 2023-09-04 01:50:04
The helpless expression of homosexuality in the early films because of the taboo censorship seems quite interesting now. It turns out that the famous Ben-Hur also has such hints, and the screenwriter and director are good or bad, so I only tell two of this idea. one of the protagonists. There is also the implicit expression in the movie Spartacus that he likes to eat snails and oysters, so he kneels. I really want to watch Honghe Jie, the two protagonists in the scene of changing guns are so...
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Shannon 2023-06-30 17:02:35
It is strange that in China there is no such unforgettable change of times that can be traced back. Everything is only changing silently. Maybe we are used to being influenced by the outside society, and the change is from the outside to the inside, not from the inside to the outside. Susan Sarandon burst out laughing when she mentioned Tiger and Leopard, as if I really hoped to see the two...
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Ronny 2023-06-26 19:13:26
LGBT? History of the Screen. It turns out that in the 59th edition of "Ben-Hur", Misala had a lot of feelings for Ben-Hur. At that time, the screenwriter only told Stephen Boyd who played Misala, and Charlton Heston didn't know...
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Afton 2023-06-16 13:18:29
Presence needs no legitimizing; it only needs to...
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Sheila 2023-06-04 09:36:12
Very interesting documentary, looking for the social issues that the images of homosexuality extremely reflect in the history of American cinema. From "Ben-Hur" and "Rebel for No Reason" to "The End of the World" and "The Philadelphia Story", the writer, actor and producer come forward to explain the hidden, deleted, misunderstood and vilified homosexuals in the history of American cinema in the past century...
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Kamryn 2023-04-12 00:51:43
Fantastic Fantastic Fantastic Fantastic, a full credits video essay (full list of films mentioned in the film: https://letterboxd.com/lagerlout/list/all-films-mentioned-in-the-celluloid-closet...
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Javon 2023-01-17 04:47:56
It turned out to be "gay in English movies" ah. But it is very interesting, and it has been severely popularized the social atmosphere and value orientation of the United States at various times. The homosexuality in the early films basically appeared as a joke, while the homosexuality in the Codex era was basically invisible regardless of gender, but in some literary remakes, it also left the audience room for reverie, which is more meaningful... There are no gay films in Oldwood. We still...
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Virginia 2023-01-08 15:41:22
Same-sex love in film: From the hyperbole in the early days of film invention, to the veiled shots in the 30 years of strict censorship in Hollywood's golden age, to the loose and realistic expression after the 1960s. The two female protagonists in the end of the wild flower go to Huangquan hand in hand. It can be seen that this kind of love is also the one who is familiar with the four letter word, and is not humble compared to the love of the opposite sex. oyster or snail? "I love both,"...
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Cory 2022-12-24 22:27:35
In the 100-year history of same-sex cinema, a total of 118 films were mentioned, most of which were Hollywood films. The only ones I can think of with same-sex plots that don't appear in the film are "Morris", "Stranger on a Train" and "North by Northwest." I actually don't like the cynical interpretation and output of some of the interviewees' opinions on films from nearly a century ago. The good thing about making this kind of documentary in 1995 was that there was no political correctness at...
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Roslyn 2022-12-24 21:22:59
I feel like I know a little more about queer culture. The middle paragraph "All people with suspicious sexuality will die in the end" is well done, but a bit middle-of-the-road [. ], the ending is quite bright! I thought cabaret was a pioneer but I didn't expect it to be such a pioneer! Shirley MacLaine originally played Lala when she was young! Blaine's mother also played Lara, Harry Hamlin played gay when he was young, and Glee chose not to choose Zhenji, but they were all soaked in queer...
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Genesis 2022-07-07 15:56:52
Vito Russo
Five stars for Vito Russo's (1946-1990) seminal research and the century-old history of social change depicted in the film.
The Celluloid Closet reveals how queers are represented in Hollywood films. They lived in shadows, stood for being bullied, and most often ended up dying as punishment for...
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Declan 2022-07-07 17:22:50
Staged Development Summary
From the two men dancing in Edison's experimental short film in 1895 to the birth of this documentary in 1995, the period is the history of the development of Hollywood gay films spanning a hundred years. Interview the filmmaker to record the image of gays on the screen, and make a pertinent...
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Shirley MacLaine: None of us were really aware. We might have been forerunners, but we weren't really, because we didn't do the picture right. We were in the mindset of not understanding what we were basically doing. These days, there would be a tremendous outcry, as well there should be. Why would Martha break down and say, "Oh my god, what's wrong with me, I'm so polluted, I've ruined you." She would fight! She would fight for her budding preference. And when you look at it, to have Martha play that scene - and no one questioned it - what that meant, or what the alternatives could have been underneath the dialog, it's mind boggling. The profundity of this subject was not in the lexicon of our rehearsal period. Audrey and I never talked about this. Isn't that amazing? Truly amazing.
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Susan Sarandon: Oh, movies are important and they're dangerous because we're the keeper of the dreams. You go into a little dark room and become incredibly vulnerable - on one hand all your perspectives can be challenged, you could feel something you couldn't feel normally. It can encourage you to be the protagonist in your own life. On the other hand it can completely misshape you.
Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Language: English Release date: March 15, 1996