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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: "Bride" ("gayness" in movie)
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 17:08:40 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 22 17:08:40 1985
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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!"