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 evaluation based on the historical and social environment at that time.
Here you can see the starring lament of the injustice of the character's fate in "The Two Sisters", the intensive reading of the hidden romances by the screenwriters of "Ben-Hur" and "Rebel Without a Cause", you can see the various unfair treatment of gay individuals, and you can also watch To the coexistence of joy and pride in the gay community.
0. In the 100 years since the film came out, gays hardly ever appeared on the screen, and once they did, their images were mocked, pitiful, and even terrifying
1. When movies were first born, homosexuality was often taken for granted as a source of humor They were sissies, they were never addressed as homosexual, it was a convention that totally accepted. They were perceived as homosexuals just subliminally... It wasn't t discussed, but you knew. They were all very prissy, you know, these little skinny white man with little mustaches who would go like this (waving hands)
2. From the 1930s to the 1950s, the Catholic Church and fundamentalists advocated restricting film creation, modifying scenes related to homosexuality or sex, and cutting. Director, Writer and Hayes Code, Censorship Fighting Most expressions of homosexuality in most of movies are indirect. What's interesting is that that, of course, is what was like to express homosexuality in life, that we could only express ourselves indirectly, just as people on the screen could only express themselves indirectly. And there's a sense in which the characters are in the closet, the movie is in the closet, and we are in the closet.
In the 3.60s, when Hollywood was still secretive about homosexuality, British cinema took the lead ("The Victim"). Back in Hollywood, censorship gradually began to loosen, and homosexuality could finally be discussed in movies, but still not discussed among decent people Growing up in that period in the 60's, all we had were images of unhappy, suicidal, desperate gay people. The thought of turning, of turning involuntary into one of them frightened me and made me sick with anger. I went down there, I had heard about thr front door, people giggled and made jokes of it.
♢♧♡♤ To be continued
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