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Op/Ed about gay stereotypes in popular culture

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twistedude:
I think Aussie Chris has it about covered (pun?). No full frontal nudity--who ever SAID there was, anyway? That usually calls for an NC17  (like our rauchy column, with about 600 posts in it..).--but not always..."The Piano" comes to mind---R rated, as I remember.  Different things inspire NC17...or, as used to be, X rating...one cut of "Angel Heart," I'm told, was x-rated because of the COMBINATION of sex and violence in one scene..great scene, as you may know, with great music (and it got an R with about 1 second cut off..).  "Mysterious Skin" chose to remain unrated, but many theaters won't show unrated films. Visually R, but verbally and conceptually X (>Mysterious Skin")...all ver' interesting... 
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twistedude:
Anyo0ne read the 2003 screenplay? No camera inside the tent in the first tent scene--but your ears work fine! No second tent scene. In the motel, one of them is lying down, but the other sits on the edge of the bed with his feet on the floor (both have pants on). There is ONE kiss in the reunion scene, and when Alma comes out, she only sees Ennis's back, Jack is hidden... verbally, it'[s quite clear what's happening at all times, and there's a little extra stuff from the story in the (very long) motel scene.( 'It must be all that time a'horseback"...etc). Also, the line, on one of the camping trips, "That's one of the two things I need right now" (of a beer). But notably missing is "You been to Mexico, Jack? Cause I've herard what they got in Mexico for boys like you."

But..violoence..I dunno. The scene with Ennis's voice over of his pa taking him and T.E. to see Earl's corpse--you only see Earl's  boots. When Ennis talks to Lureen on the phone, he imagines the same three-men-in-a-field beating a Jack-like person to death. But the corker is the second imagining of Jack's death: it is a repeat of Ennis's pa talking him and his brother to see Earl's corpse, and at first, stops at Earl's boots. But then the camera pans up..to Jack's bloody face.

SO: I think the sex, especially as it is written, had been toned down, after many people had read the thing and rejected it, but, hey, how we all love violence, huh?

I don't think I would have gone back to see it a second time with the Earl's boots--Jack's face in it...~  CLICK TO ENLARGE

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