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[lord_melbury]

OSCARS WRAP

I was so happy for the Slumdog team. A break from pretentious Hollywood line-up. New people, different cultures.

Jai Ho! I hate dancing but each time I hear it I want to dance in the aisle.

James Franco :drool:

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Re: i wanna be your dog

[takenbythesky]

Ha, no, more specifically & clearly in Douglas Sirk's Written On The Wind from the '50s. The class discussion focused on the film's phallic symbolism & interpretations of its sexual repression & frustration symbolism. I was kind of more interested in how the 3-strip Technicolor was utilized to make the film's palette deliberately artificial to draw attention to the absurdity of the illusion of the Model American Family. (Ha, that reminds me of the time you posted model families on some message board.) Also how the styling of the movie seemed to be a deliberate perversion of that in most Hollywood films of its era; same for a female character with all her costume changes reflecting the facets of her personality, dovetailing with a kind of commentary on how women had become objectified. (Lauren Bacall made an orgasmic moaning noise when her oil baron father-in-law placed a diamond necklace 'round her neck, Dorothy Malone first displayed her dragon lady tendencies in an asian-influenced blouse, etc.)



Note the desperation on her face as she clutches the oil derrick, symbolic of the male anatomy she desired yet never had from Rock Hudson, himself a fan of anyone's male anatomy in reality. Also symbolic of her assumption of daddy's business role & estate after indirectly killing him with music symbolizing repressed feminine sensuality before indirectly killing her fertility-challenged brother by grappling over another phallic symbol in a pistol meant to take down Rock Hudson. Unfortunately Google Images & YouTube are lacking evidence of the scene in which Robert Stack learns from his doctor of a "weakness" inherent in his fertilizing capabilities, not sterility or impotence but distressing nonetheless, only to exit the All-American Coffee Shop Set to see a little boy ebulliently mounting a coin-operated horse. Here's Hugh instead.

Re: i wanna be your dog

[lord_melbury]

Holy shit. I haven't read your post yet but had to comment on the picture. Fuck me, he's so sexy that he can look sexy in a turtle neck, which I hate. Jeepers Johnny!!