Ooh! Cool Film Stuff are the ones that I got my ICM ad from. Nice people, very good service! Very tempted with those ads ;O)
BTW, I probably have a much better picture of that headdress if you ever want to try your hand at it, or take the picture elsewhere for it to be made.
And eeeeeee! New Baz piccy! *smooch* Thanks for linking to that :O)
Strictly is one of those high-camp movies that's found its way into the 'gay interest' pigeonhole, probably because it's just gaudy, glitzy and just so over-the-top. It always surprises me how many people seem to think it's only that - glitz and glamour - and miss the underlying 'David and Goliath' message of triumph over oppression. And I think that because of this, and because so many gay men also loved Romeo and Moulin that anything Baz does gets lumped into 'gay interest'. I mean, I've seen all of these and - because of Baz's style - I can understand how the three Red Curtain movies are dubbed 'gay interest' but Boheme? Nope, I don't get that one. Pure association, I think.
Ah, I wasn't intending to purchase them -- I'm just _such_ an Ebay window shopper most of the time.
And I sorta get the thing about Strictly Ballroom. And maybe I get it more with R+J because of Mercutio being the way he is, and even with Moulin Rouge because there are snippets of all sorts of odd things lurking in the background of that film. I guess to me Strictly Ballroom is the least gay of his films, even while also being the most stereotypically so. Although part of it is I've known competative ballroom dancers, so I'm somewhat used to how queer it seems and how queer it isn't.
Now, on a slightly seperate note, can someone _please_ explain to me why various Ebay auctions related both to Strictly Ballroom and La Boheme include "gay interest" in the subject line? I mean, maybe I'm _so_ much the way I am, that I just don't get it, but there aren't any gay characters in either. And, well, I just don't get it.
The connection seems intuitively obvious to me, and yet extremely difficult to explicate except to say that queer folk tend to like such works (or at least the queer folk I know :) Still, I would not have expected such things to actually be labeled "gay interest", most odd...
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BTW, I probably have a much better picture of that headdress if you ever want to try your hand at it, or take the picture elsewhere for it to be made.
And eeeeeee! New Baz piccy! *smooch* Thanks for linking to that :O)
Strictly is one of those high-camp movies that's found its way into the 'gay interest' pigeonhole, probably because it's just gaudy, glitzy and just so over-the-top. It always surprises me how many people seem to think it's only that - glitz and glamour - and miss the underlying 'David and Goliath' message of triumph over oppression. And I think that because of this, and because so many gay men also loved Romeo and Moulin that anything Baz does gets lumped into 'gay interest'. I mean, I've seen all of these and - because of Baz's style - I can understand how the three Red Curtain movies are dubbed 'gay interest' but Boheme? Nope, I don't get that one. Pure association, I think.
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And I sorta get the thing about Strictly Ballroom. And maybe I get it more with R+J because of Mercutio being the way he is, and even with Moulin Rouge because there are snippets of all sorts of odd things lurking in the background of that film. I guess to me Strictly Ballroom is the least gay of his films, even while also being the most stereotypically so. Although part of it is I've known competative ballroom dancers, so I'm somewhat used to how queer it seems and how queer it isn't.
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The connection seems intuitively obvious to me, and yet extremely difficult to explicate except to say that queer folk tend to like such works (or at least the queer folk I know :) Still, I would not have expected such things to actually be labeled "gay interest", most odd...
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