(DOC) Portrayal of Gay Characters Hchck’s Films | Joana P C Sevilha

Contents:

• GAY CODG HCHCK FILMS
• WHEN HCHCK WENT GAY: ‘STRANGERS ON A TRA’ AND ‘ROPE’
• PORTRAYAL OF GAY CHARACTERS HCHCK’S FILMSPORTRAYAL OF GAY CHARACTERS HCHCK’S FILMSPORTRAYAL OF GAY CHARACTERS HCHCK’S FILMSPORTRAYAL OF GAY CHARACTERS HCHCK’S FILMSPORTRAYAL OF GAY CHARACTERS HCHCK’S FILMS

GAY CODG HCHCK FILMS

In late 1920s England, Aled and Alma Hchck socialized and were good iends wh Ivor Novello and his partner, Robert “Bobbie” Andrews, who had lavish parti that were notorly gay.

After he had e out as gay later life, Rope’s screenplay wrer, Arthur Lrents, said a DVD mentary of the film, “What was cur to me was that Rope was obvly about homosexuals.

The plot is nearly intil; however, the play explicly tablish that the two ma characters are a homosexual relatnship, and their former school teacher, Rupert, is also a homosexual who had affairs wh both of them. Charters and Calditt are not sissy sikicks, the most mon gay male characterizatn allowed Amerin movi of the time (such as Edward Everett Horton’s rol the Gger Rodgers-Fred Astaire movi).

WHEN HCHCK WENT GAY: ‘STRANGERS ON A TRA’ AND ‘ROPE’

While Ripley‘s homosexual unrton are certaly more blatant, there’s somethg fely there Bno’s tert Guy — part of may be social climbg, but part of may very well be sexual.

What’s so fascatg about the queer subtext Hchck’s films is that he knew, as a director and a provotr, that makg the simple suggtn of homosexualy was enough to create unease, to raise the stak for both his characters and his dience.

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Rope's pictn of whe upper-class Manhattan gays displays that Old Hollywood knack of turng a popular dience to sirs and took a mischievo geni to make a post-WWII movie wh subtle queer characters.