The BB Word Count, with Added Cruising
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przedI actually got some new words written today:
This was amazing, not just because it was a busy, errand filled day--I managed to get new shoes and shorts for me, a new swimsuit for Ros, and chickenwire that will, we hope, keep the morning glory seedlings we're about to plant from getting eaten by the local wildlife--but also because the Sweetie and I got babysitting tonight so we could go to a private film club we belong to that screens all sorts of culturally suspect films. The current month's offering was Cruising
Yes, that Cruising. The one with Al Pacino playing a cop undercover in the gay leather bar scene. It was an awesome, fascinating film, though far from perfect. The murder plot is screwy, and the slasher in me wishes we actually got to see Al go for it with another guy. But the club scenes are astounding. And filmed, for my money, mostly without judgment. (Any judgment up there, you bring to the film yourself.) I'm still amazed they got a pretty explicit fisting scene in there.
At some point, I'm going to do my own cut of the film. One which eliminates the murder plot entirely and is just Al exploring the leather bar scene and then going to diners with his Gay Best Friend next door.
And for the record, the Sweetie thought it was as awesome as I did. And that's why he's my Sweetie.
This was amazing, not just because it was a busy, errand filled day--I managed to get new shoes and shorts for me, a new swimsuit for Ros, and chickenwire that will, we hope, keep the morning glory seedlings we're about to plant from getting eaten by the local wildlife--but also because the Sweetie and I got babysitting tonight so we could go to a private film club we belong to that screens all sorts of culturally suspect films. The current month's offering was Cruising
Yes, that Cruising. The one with Al Pacino playing a cop undercover in the gay leather bar scene. It was an awesome, fascinating film, though far from perfect. The murder plot is screwy, and the slasher in me wishes we actually got to see Al go for it with another guy. But the club scenes are astounding. And filmed, for my money, mostly without judgment. (Any judgment up there, you bring to the film yourself.) I'm still amazed they got a pretty explicit fisting scene in there.
At some point, I'm going to do my own cut of the film. One which eliminates the murder plot entirely and is just Al exploring the leather bar scene and then going to diners with his Gay Best Friend next door.
And for the record, the Sweetie thought it was as awesome as I did. And that's why he's my Sweetie.
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Date: 2010-06-21 02:02 am (UTC)The 70s were the big era for "shock", mainstream porn -- there's all the stuff that came after those films like the version of things like Sleeping Beauty -- "wild living" in the discos and nightclubs, shocking books... The novel was published in 1970. I'm guessing that by the time this thing got funded and off the ground it was lagging a few years behind its target audience. Looking for Mr. Goodbar came out in 1977, that probably also suggested there might be a BIG audience for this sort of film. I have to admit that 70s pop culture fascinates me. *g*
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Date: 2010-06-21 02:08 am (UTC)I also have a fascination with 70s pop culture. There's such an interesting stew of cultural, social and sexual upheaval going on.