Thank god Hollywood-- or at least Hollywood UK-- has been released from the stranglehold those gay activists initiated after "Silence of the Lambs" and "Basic Instinct," because now we're back to fun killer Lesbian movies like "Notes on a Scandal." I watched this on my BetaMax last night, and suggest the lezzie girls might want to watch it on their VaginaMax, just to get the added girl-on-girl sex scenes missing from my copy.
What did the protests accomplish? Remember "we're here, we're queer, and so are some of you"? It only took Jodie Foster 16 years to actually come out-- sort of-- just in time to dump her butchy galpal. John Travolta and Tom Cruise subsumed themselves even further into Scientology, where they can privately jerk each other off with their E-meters. Jonathan Demme made his drippy apologia movie, "Philadelphia," and his career swiftly tanked. Only Paul Verhoeven had the courage to press on and make "Showgirls," staying true to his art even if it made Hollywood spurn him. Except for the insipid "Hollow Man," every Verhoeven movie since has been fantastic. I love me some "Black Book"! Hollywood's loss.
The greatest effect was the removal of the "gay monster" from mainstream movies, and Hollywood thrillers have suffered ever since. Think about it-- only someone as old as (Damn!) Judy Dench would still be wracked with enough guilt to not let her love speaks its name. Kids these days are raised on "Will & Grace," so the idea that gay=monster is disappearing-- we're looking at a closing window here, people! Then again, I look forward to the plethora of vampire fag hags and monstrous helium-voiced kewpies based on Grace and Karen to wreak havoc on the unsuspecting gays in the thrillers of the coming decades.
Besides, hasn't this been a year of shattered glass ceilings? If a woman can feasibly become President, it makes sense that a Lesbian can be a psychopath, right? They're not a black man or a woman running for president, but people running for president, and (Damn!) Judi Dench isn't a Lesbian psychopath, she's just a psychopath. But let's see more of these movies while the idea of a Lesbian as a monster is still in the public consciousness, okay? Because, as we know, it's always more fun to play the monster.
What did the protests accomplish? Remember "we're here, we're queer, and so are some of you"? It only took Jodie Foster 16 years to actually come out-- sort of-- just in time to dump her butchy galpal. John Travolta and Tom Cruise subsumed themselves even further into Scientology, where they can privately jerk each other off with their E-meters. Jonathan Demme made his drippy apologia movie, "Philadelphia," and his career swiftly tanked. Only Paul Verhoeven had the courage to press on and make "Showgirls," staying true to his art even if it made Hollywood spurn him. Except for the insipid "Hollow Man," every Verhoeven movie since has been fantastic. I love me some "Black Book"! Hollywood's loss.
The greatest effect was the removal of the "gay monster" from mainstream movies, and Hollywood thrillers have suffered ever since. Think about it-- only someone as old as (Damn!) Judy Dench would still be wracked with enough guilt to not let her love speaks its name. Kids these days are raised on "Will & Grace," so the idea that gay=monster is disappearing-- we're looking at a closing window here, people! Then again, I look forward to the plethora of vampire fag hags and monstrous helium-voiced kewpies based on Grace and Karen to wreak havoc on the unsuspecting gays in the thrillers of the coming decades.
Besides, hasn't this been a year of shattered glass ceilings? If a woman can feasibly become President, it makes sense that a Lesbian can be a psychopath, right? They're not a black man or a woman running for president, but people running for president, and (Damn!) Judi Dench isn't a Lesbian psychopath, she's just a psychopath. But let's see more of these movies while the idea of a Lesbian as a monster is still in the public consciousness, okay? Because, as we know, it's always more fun to play the monster.
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