Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!bbncca!rrizzo From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: "Bride" ("gayness" in movie) Message-ID: <1542@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 17:08:40 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.1542 Posted: Thu Aug 22 17:08:40 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 04:11:42 EDT References: <178@Navajo.ARPA> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 32 I haven't seen "Bride" but if Per's guess is right, that the movie's the creation of a largely gay production team, then it would be a continuation of a venerable tradition. Director James Whale, who made the original "Frankenstein" & "Bride of Frankenstein", was openly gay & artistically uncompromising. I'm told he was in effect forced out of Hollywood because of that, even though he was one of Tinseltown's better & more original directors. Kenneth Anger's lurid "Hollywood Babylon" books has I believe an extended description of Whale & his career. A cineaste (?) friend of mine pointed out the scene in "Frankenstein" between the Monster, the flower & the little girl as an example of the film's unusual sensitivity. The "Frankenstein" made a few years ago as a faithful transcription of Mary Shelley's novel and shown on PBS, had strong homoerotic overtones in it, not too surprising when you discover that Christopher Isherwood wrote the screenplay. Finally, deeply in debt & wanting to make a fast bundle, Andy Warhol picked "Frankenstein" and "Dracula" as the subjects for two glossy commercial films he made in the (late?) 70s. Regards, Ron Rizzo Monster to the Doctor after seeing the Bride for the first time: "My dear, you gave me such a fright!"