Richard Lklater Discs 'Not Inadvertent' Gay Subtext In ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’
Contents:
- RICHARD LKLATER DISCS ‘NOT INADVERTENT’ GAY SUBTEXT IN ‘EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!’
- ‘END OF THE CENTURY’ FILM REVIEW: LH GAY ROMANCE EXPLOR PATHS NOT TAKEN
RICHARD LKLATER DISCS ‘NOT INADVERTENT’ GAY SUBTEXT IN ‘EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!’
He played Bernie Tie, a flamboyant gay mortician who beiend a mean old widow (played by Shirley McLae).
Although Tie has never e out publicly that he's gay, 's implied the film. ” has been lled advertently gay and that has subtle homoerotic elements.
‘END OF THE CENTURY’ FILM REVIEW: LH GAY ROMANCE EXPLOR PATHS NOT TAKEN
But was this his tentn, to shoot an “advertently gay” movie that gazed over the male bodi?
He creds his way of fdg the gay subtext each film to his good iend and mentor, the late film cric Gee Morris. The two often watched movi together and Morris would always look at films, “through a gay lens or see the gay view anythg. As the drama plays out, the Rashomon effect tak over.
Still, Lklater directs the hell out of , addg a terrific die-rock soundtrack (ftgly domated by Sonic Youth) and an imprsn of dreary, strip-mall homogeney that stands as the film’s most persuasive character.