And unheard of. There's no sodomy in the Navy. They're professionals.
She has a kind of psychiatric cabaret. Very good. There was something about Suez.
There sure was a lot of seamen on screen.
Working in the movie business since -92
(((liberals))) like to re-imagine things that were wholesome and normal, and add nefarious/degenerate overtones where there were none. Kind of like the angry neighbor dad character in American Beauty, or the "bored/unhinged housewife" in every depiction of the 50's in modern film.
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Well Pianohero4 I hate to break it to you the angry neighbor dad in American Beauty was a closeted homosexual who took out his frustrations by being cruel to his wife and son and eventually killing his next door neighbor Lester for no particular reason. If that's your idea of wholesome and normal remind me to stay away from you and your neighborhood.
shareYou obviously cant read if you think that response is a counter and not an affirmation of my comment.
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Anyone who starts a statement with "liberals like to..." is a pretentious blowhard. No one here cares about your politics.
sharePianoHero4, must be tough going through life with no sense of humor.
shareLOL I'm trying to find a gif of that scene right now.
shareI believe it was poking fun at some of the musicals of the era, where things are meant to be innocent... but when viewing things from a modern perspective the musicals seem campy and gay. At least that was my take on it. It wasn't supposed to be about gay sailors at all, but it turned out certainly seeming that way - especially for a modern audience.
share@ Will1988 -- exactly.
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Thanks!
That was my take on it anyway. It wasn't meant to be literally gay, or even taken as hinting at being gay. It was just a standard early 1950s musical which were rather campy. Modern audiences, especially younger generations, watching 1940s/50s musicals might infer strong homosexual undertones which aren't really there... it was just the style.
Exactly Right.
Has no one here seen 'On The Town'? Not an obscure movie by any means...
The whole movie was about sailors trying to find a 'dame'...
Overthinking it perhaps, but I saw it as the sailors becoming temporary homosexuals. Think men in prison.
I heard a former sailor once say that on long submarine duty when they leave port, there are 100 single men. After a while, 50 couples.