Gaywatch: Merchant of Venice (2004)
I have to give props to geekgirlt for bringing this one to my attention. Frankly, I'm not sure how a film adaptation of Shakespeare with Jeremy Irons and Joseph Fiennes slipped past my radar. The trailers must have focused on Al Pacino or something, because I probably would have remembered this being on my screen:
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I SWEAR, she goes all fangirl on us a couple times and squeals in the kiss xD. In one scene where Antonio has his head rested on Bassanio she says and I quote: "This is as homoerotic as you can get right now, what is this? post-coitus... which they would agree with" and the director is trying to talk about Shylock, it's quite funny. Then a few scenes later, the director himself says THIS
"Now here, here you see, if there isn't a homoerotic relationship between these two people, then why is it that Antonio says to him, "you give up the ring, come on"?, he was not gonna give it up! And he persuades him to do it, and that's where the battle lines are drawn, if you'd like, between them, and that's what informs the final scene" (I'm not sure, but I think he's referring to Portia trying to find out what the relationship between Antonio and Bassanio is, which you can see clearly in the trial scene and which they actually comment on as well)
The director openly admits to putting homoerotic subtext in the movie, and it's just awesome.
And when the director tells Lynn that the who gay kisses will be cut for the TV version, she gets angry and states that she can no longer live in the US. lol
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