Gay Themes

The villain in El Puro kisses his sidekick in passionate rage after he has beaten a woman to death.
-another example where homo-sexuality is used to show the degradation of the villains.

How about THE MERCENARY?

Curly (Jack Palance) is clearly gay in that film. His henchman Sebastian is his lover.

As Curly and the Pollack (Nero) are in many ways mirrors of one another is the Pollack gay also? This seems hinted at by the mirror theme and by his lack of sexual interest in the female revolutionary. Or perhaps the Pollack is not gay, but rather asexual (or non-sexual) as his only interest in life is money (prior to gaining respect for Paco and the female revolutionary).

Or perhaps Curly is gay simply to make him more villanous than the Pollack?

I think the Pollack is asexual. Purely to strengthen the fact that he is motivated by greed and nothing else distacts him from the aquisition of money.

How dare you, no way is The Polack gay!
Franco Nero is all man (apart from where he played Versace). :slight_smile:

haha your carrecter is gay :smiley:

oops have to go, otherwise my girlfriend is going to beat me up because I didnt wash the windows and irioned her shirts while she was watching tv…

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[quote=“tom, post:12, topic:283”]haha your carrecter is gay :smiley:

oops have to go, otherwise my girlfriend is going to beat me up because I didnt wash the windows and irioned her shirts while she was watching tv…

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He’d better not f##king be! :stuck_out_tongue:

lucky it’s The Swede and not the Polack if he is! :slight_smile:

I’m not sure whether the Adam Saxon character in Il Grande Duello is just a dandy or a plain fag, but it seems the latter since he has no interest in women. The way he dresses is pretty questionable to say the least. Nevertheless he’s a pretty vile dude gunning off innocent civilians just for fun. ;D

Quite possible he was supposed to be gay, but also maybe just a mysogenist, a trait that seems quite common in Italian cinema.

In Massacre Time Nino Castelnuovo is realy ambiguous character also

The son of Templer, in Django Kill…, did he commit suicide because he was raped or sexually assaulted? (this is just one of the numerous questions this film raised) What do you think?

django kill has a really obvious gay theme

Christ. I just watched A Man Called Invincible for the first time. The whole film is overloaded with gay innuendo. It’s completely over the top. I don’t speak Italian, so I can’t compare the English and Italian dubs, but I strongly suspect that whoever translated into English butchered the original script and turned it into a sort of horrible camp western. There is absolutely no way any self respecting macho Italian male would have sat through this one as it is in English. It would have bombed at the box office in Italy. It has certainly bombed in my DVD collection. It’s so overtly gay I kept expecting Mr Humphries to pop up saying “I’m free”!

When in the film did you get to know that?

My boyfriend dislikes this thread :wink:

How about the two homo hitmen in Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia, played by Gig Young and Robert Webber. When the Mexican prostitute in the bar puts the move on one of the henchmen, he violently knocks her out and leaves her lying on the bar room floor, and continues his conversation as if nothing ever happened. Very twisted freaks.

LOL

Well, I think there is a modern tendency to leap at “homoeroticism” ; the comment about the Italian culture being reflected in the “male bonding” in these films is closer to the truth. That said, the way these relationships are STRUCTURED frequently resembles the plotting of ROMANCES- with macho versions of “meeting cute” and “breaking up and getting back together” type cliches. Except in THESE “romances”, there’s a good chance they’ll “consumate” by shooting each other!

I agree with your point about the way these relationships are structured.

It’s interesting to look at from that angle. From what I’ve seen in these movies, male partnerships do involve break-ups, and obsession, and jealousy, and possessiveness, and indulgently savouring each other’s victory over the other.
It doesn’t mean they’re gay, it just means they either really, really like each other or they have a whole lot of grudging respect for each other.

As for Chuncho and Tate, I think that one is pretty ambivalent, though I raised eyebrows when Chuncho wasted time treating Tate’s malaria.

Maybe I have too much of a gaydar, but the relationship between Orlowsky and Lozoya in Viva la muerte… tua! is very much a bromance. Lozoya has kind of a behaviour towards Orlowsky that- excuse my Japanese- is kind of tsundere. He starts out disrespecting , threatening and betraying the Russian conman constantly, but grows to legitimately respect him over time. They even leave the main female character behind and ride off into the mountains to continue their friendship.