Sunday, October 14, 2012
ROCK HARD
Today's movie was the documentary take down
Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1993)
You shouldn't kick a guy when he is down but when he is dead it is OK.
This carefully curated set of outtakes from Rock Hudson movies assays the "clues" to his homo-hood and beyond.
A pseudo narration by Rock himself provides the smirk.
I know. Movie stars should be out. Should they be outed? In Rock's case it never happened until he became so obviously sick that the dread AIDS words were used but not even until his death. Is this reprehensible? I don't know.
I went into the closet when I graduated from college and didn't come out for a long time after. Fifteen years, sort of?
Rock was a major screen star and not the only gay one. By far. But he gets singled out for being particularly annoying to some gay people because he played so macho so much of the time. And so on. Does that mean that Paul Lynde was any better?
And so on.
The film is amusing. There were a lot of clues which the makers suggest were intentional but really. Have you heard anyone's conversation and parsed it for possible innuendo?
I have to admit the three movies with Tony Randall are a bit over the top and Doris Day's virginity in all their films is now more clearly understood. There was one film where he actually played near gay as a second character.
I feel a little soiled actually. But not enough to maintain a straight face. Get it? An innuendo!
It was good and it was short at one hour and it is over.
It barely makes it a 3 out of the Netflix5.
Another thought. It is like those cat videos or other pets on YouTube. They are barely based on tormenting the animal and I don't like it. Somewhere, Rock's feelings may be hurt. Or, just maybe, he doesn't give a shit. He had a good time and his job was not to be a crusader. Evidently not as he was not one at all.
This is not from the film. It is funnier actually. So someone else sees the same thing. Well, we aren't blind. I like the broken "canes". Dr. Freud?
