Contents:
- GORE VIDAL'S ITALIAN FILMS: ROMA, CALIGULA AND A GAY BEN-HUR
- GAY HISTORY – JANUARY 21: CALIGULA, FRERICK THE GREAT, WSTON CHURCHILL AND SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
- GORE VIDAL'S ITALIAN FILMS: ROMA, CALIGULA AND A GAY BEN-HUR
GORE VIDAL'S ITALIAN FILMS: ROMA, CALIGULA AND A GAY BEN-HUR
9) Makg a Man His WifeI'm not talkg about gay marriage here, at least not really. Caligula is a big, heart-shaped box overstuffed wh ndy of all flavors, gay, straight, threom, foursom, btialy, sadomasochism, necrophilia, patn, evisceratn, rape, emasculatn (a man’s genals are tossed to some dogs who munch ‘em down like begg’ strips right on screen. He was paid $200, 000 for his script, which he wrote as a bched and homoerotic allegory about how absolute power rpts absolutely.
His attempt to ht the script at a prev gay attachment between Ben (Charlton Hton) and Msala (Stephen Boyd) did not nvce the director, William Wyler, or Hton. Years later, after Vidal reunted the story for the gay documentary The Celluloid Closet (1995), Hton wrote an dignant letter sayg that Gore's revisn of the script had been rejected by them all.
GAY HISTORY – JANUARY 21: CALIGULA, FRERICK THE GREAT, WSTON CHURCHILL AND SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
Produced by The Sat at Large anizatn, The Black Party is nsired the father of all large gay circu events and remas unchallenged as the forbearer an ever-changg NYC nightlife environment. La actud los romanos hacia la homosexualidad era ambivalente. Durg the rewr, Vidal's screenplay was rewrten to tone down the homosexual ntent, at Guccne's sistence.
Ambiguoly Gay: A gay sex scene volvg Gemell and one of the guards was actually filmed, but left on the cuttg room floor. Some hts as to Gemell's sexual preferenc rema the film but nothg that specifilly intifi him as beg gay. " Nothg about Caligula's hband or his homosexualy ma to the film.
So, you uld have Mallm McDowell play a character who engag rape, torture, murr, ct, btialy, and other horrible acts, but they uldn't say he was gay.
GORE VIDAL'S ITALIAN FILMS: ROMA, CALIGULA AND A GAY BEN-HUR
Somewhat downplayed, bee the film was ma The '70s when acceptance of homosexualy was very low.
But Not Too Gay: Bob Guccne orred the script to be rewrten several tim to tone down the homosexual ntent Gore Vidal's origal script. While he had several homosexual enunters Gore Vidal's origal script, pendg on which cut of the fal film you're watchg, Caligula's bisexualy rang om briefly shown (kissg Macro, tellg Tiberi that he lik "both nymphs and satyrs, " and anally fistg Procul after rapg his wife) to totally nonexistent.