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In the New Yorker...
southendmd:
I particularly liked his review of "Contact": he says of Jodie Foster's character: "She does get laid in the film, but only by Matthew McConaughey, and that doesn't count."
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: southendmd on April 26, 2017, 11:31:44 am ---I particularly liked his review of "Contact": he says of Jodie Foster's character: "She does get laid in the film, but only by Matthew McConaughey, and that doesn't count."
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Well, there you have it. Amusing, but snarky. How does he know it doesn't count? Has he ever been laid by Matthew McConaughey?
serious crayons:
Plus, how does that not count? I'd certainly count Matthew McConaughey if he were among my conquests, even if it occurred before the McConaisssaince, as that film did.
On the other hand, Jodie Foster no doubt has different standards.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on April 27, 2017, 01:38:14 pm ---Plus, how does that not count? I'd certainly count Matthew McConaughey if he were among my conquests, even if it occurred before the McConaisssaince, as that film did.
On the other hand, Jodie Foster no doubt has different standards.
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It just now occurred to me to wonder whether he was making a kind of veiled reference to the fact that she's lesbian, so it "doesn't count" because she got laid by a guy?
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 27, 2017, 02:15:49 pm ---It just now occurred to me to wonder whether he was making a kind of veiled reference to the fact that she's lesbian, so it "doesn't count" because she got laid by a guy?
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Maybe, although I don't think her character in the film was necessarily identified as lesbian. I think he was just waving off Matthew McConaughey as a lightweight, which most people did back in them days.
On a related topic, since Jonathan Demme died the other day, I've read that he was slammed by "the gay community" (not that all gay people share one giant monolithic opinion, but you know what I mean) for the portrayal of the serial killer in Silence of the Lambs, whose identity was kind of vague but seemed kind of transgender or something (he was making a thing out of women's skin to wear himself) and wore makeup, I think, etc. Demme felt terrible, because he considered himself an ally. So then he made Philadelphia, in which as you'll recall Tom Hanks plays a gay man with AIDS -- and was castigated even more by the gay community for such a tame portrayal of a gay man (I guess Hanks danced with Antonio Banderas, but that was about it -- let's just say it was no Brokeback Mountain).
In fact, as years went by SotL became more embraced by "the gay community" -- Jodie Foster's character is not identified as lesbian, but could conceivably be, and for some reason I guess people liked Hannibal Lecter. But they still hated Philadelphia.
I felt bad for him, because in neither case did he intend to be insensitive. He says that in SotL he just wanted to show a guy who was extremely alienated from himself and real life or something like that. And in Philadelphia, he hoped to bring attention to an issue that was still widely ignored -- remember how Reagan notoriously didn't mention AIDS?
Do you all have any thoughts on this, or had you heard it before?
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