Vader182 wrote:I wonder if audiences in the 60s saw Lawrence and were like "that's gay as balls." Not just the absence of women, but the rampant homoeroticism. Not rhetorical, I'm curious.
-Vader
Considering audiences (and crew) were already latching on to how gay Ben-Hur is a few years prior, I assume so.
Beyond everything else, there's the Ferrer sequence as well.
prince0gotham wrote:Linklater sure is a Wenders fan
Minus the visual style, do you think? Now that I think of Linklater... is he interested in the set-up at all, or is it just two people for him, living their lives?
It's the "uncool" Kubrick film and I know I rant about it a lot, but I guess not having seen it for ages I miss it: Spartacus, even if it's just a gun-for-hire job is one of the most wonderfully subversive anti-epics there is. It's unique in that the real joy is the interactions, not in the spectacle at all. It boasts my favourite character interactions of any Kubrick films... I'm astonished that YouTube is bereft of the Laughton/Ustinov scenes because they're gold. It's also the film that made me a fan of Larry Olivier... his uber weirdo version of Crassus is what Carrell in the Foxcatcher trailers kinda reminds me of. Not cosmetically but just the drive of the character.