A great memorable quote om the Amerin Bety movie on - Colonel Frank Fts: What is this? The f***g Gay Pri para!
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NAZI DAD AMERIN BETY WAS NOT GAY!
The movie “alt wh sex and dgs, blackmail, homophobia, fily and suburban dysfunctn, ” producer Dan Jks proclaimed durg his acceptance speech. Prented as a vilent homophobe who fetishiz guns, Frank is revealed at the 11th hour — followg a seri of misunrstandgs that Ebert likened to a “screwball edy” — to be a closeted gay man.
(Ball, who is openly gay, created Frank out of spicns that his own father was supprsg his homosexualy. But their ias about overg pedophilia are rctive, and their treatment of gayns as a fatal revelatn unrl how much “Amerin Bety” is a product of s time.
In the 1999 movie Amerin Bety, Ricky (the weird plastic bag guy) is pretty much hated by his father (Colonel Fts), who is a homophobe wh Nazi relics his home. I know there is a theory that the Colonel is actually gay, based on when he kiss Lter, which may have led him to killg Lter, but I believe is eper than that. He scrib the gay uple who live next door: Jim Olmeyer and Jim Berkley.
DID RICKY TELL HIS FATHER HE IS GAY, SO HE WOULD KILL LTER?
" As they approach Ricky's hoe, Colonel Fts ments that 's like the "gay pri para. Trapped the Closet That's another thg about Frank—he really approv of heterosexual behavr and he really don't like gay people.
After meetg the Jims next door, for example, he go on a whole homophobic rant to Ricky:FRANK: How e the faggots always have to b your face? Frank eaks out, and of urse, we thk 's bee he's upset that (he thks) Ricky is gay—and when he shows up at Lter's door, we're ready for a brawl. Unfortunately, his vulnerabily don't pay off, sce Lter isn't actually gay—and the shame of the whole cint seems like 's jt too much for Frank to bear.
Mare Corps (Chris Cooper), exprs his annoyance at the shamelsns of a gay uple the neighbourhood as he is drivg Ricky to school.