Extremely Homophobic

I agree with foster1234's substance but not with his tone. It was pretty rare in the early 70's to have openly gay characters in films. In the 50's and 60's if they were portrayed at all - it was always ambiguous, like ' ... it was last summer when he didn't quite know who he was ... he was afraid of girls ... but that's all changed now ... now he wants to live like a man.' Hitchcock's Rope comes to mind. Didn't Farley Granger have a line like, "Their world doesn't have a aplace for people like us in it?" So the fact that Anderson Tapes had at least two homosexual characters playing homosexuals (and not in that 50's-60's way where they were simply played as 'weak,' or 'shy') and other characters called them homosexuals (or "fags") was pretty forward for its time.

Exactly. Your typical homosexual person will spend his/her/its entire lifetime bitching and complaining about one thing or the other. Before they were ever shown in movies and on TV, that was the problem. Once they are up on the screen, now that is a problem, too?

Get a life, constantly bitching homosexual people. The whole wide world is not revolving around you, you know.

"Can't keep you queers happy."

Nope. It's like the old joke about the two British fairies discussing how things had changed ...

At first it was a hanging offense ... then it was just a jail term ... and now it's completely legal. To which one of them replies, "And personally I shan't be satisfied until it's MANDATORY!"

Too true ....

I agree with you, Woodyanders. The "fag" stuff was meant to be a kind of running joke, but was not arbitrarily applied to the story. Like you point out, the Connery character treats this openly gay man with respect, without a hint of disapproval or irony. Even though some of the jokes are rather broadly drawn and depend to some extent upon stereotype, I was never offended by them. Dismissing a film like THE ANDERSON TAPES for politically correct reasons seems too easy and quite beside the point. We perceive our progress as a society by noting the attitudes and manners of the past. In the context of the film, the gay character is given enough screen time for us to know and enjoy him. His camp manner does not distract us from the fact that he is a knowledgeable, valuable member of the gang. Like you point out, they accept him; no fag jokes from their lips, at all. Am sure the screen writer wrote it that way on purpose. Addressing the original message, it seems to me that overt gay stereotypes are iffy targets for politically correct arrows. Even though the "f" word is not used on TV, the gay characters we find prancing through sitcom conflicts and sorting out the ill conceived fashions and lifestyles of straight people on reality shows strike me as being just as "stereotyped" as anything in this film. Perhaps more so, because the gay characters we ordinarily encounter in these shows are more often than not glibly drawn and as sissified as any character played by Franklin Pangborn in the thirties or forties. The problem with political correctness is it doesn't take into account context or history or meaning. The word "fag" is used and that makes it automatically offensive. As an artist myself, and a gay man, I think that's just nonsense.

The term (mostly used by males) might be considered contemptuous. Possibly a thoughtful person happy with himself would not use the term.

@beauedson


Whatever,you homophobe (yawn.)