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Jean-Pierre Marielle

posted 15 years ago by Eumenides_0
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I loved his short performance. I think it's great he decided to make his character gay: never saw a gay private investigator before in a movie.

I've noticed that Argento's movies tended to be a bit ahead of their time in the treatment of homosexuals. They're heavy on the stereotypes of the age, like in mannerisms and the way they spoke, but always have dramatic importance for the movie, they're not just walking jokes.

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[–] PoppyTransfusion 13 years ago

Agreed. Not sure when laws in Europe began changing with regards to homosexuality but not that many years before the film homosexuality was considered a mental illness. To shows Arossio as gay and give him the line that 'we are men too' seemed to me way ahead of the times. But much of Argento's sexual issues, for example the use of transexuals, was ahead of the time.

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