Best & Worst: Moments in homoerotic cinema

Zap2it is just getting worse and worse. I thought Entertainment Weekly was bad. Unless that's what Zap wants to be.
Frivolous and annoying?
If that's what you're aiming for, then you've succeeded.

what about bath scene from Spartacus.
or any scene from Fight Club(between Brad and Edward)

Of all the scenes between Frodo and Sam, and Aragorn and Legolas, this is the scene that stands out?

"Credit the filmmakers for keeping Frodo single"? Um......I thought it was J.R.R. Tolkien who did that. Must be a slow news day......

No reference to Alan Bates and Oliver Reed in "Women in Love?" This list is worthless.

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Just joshing with the "Casablanca" one, right? I'll agree with pretty much everything else, but I don't for one minute think Rick and Renault were banging each other, sheesh! Keep in mind your average reader may not have even heard of "Casablanca", nevermind seen it, now they'll view it in a whole other light. I call misfire on that one!

The Casablanca reference is one that has been bandied about for a number of years. It's a modern trend, reclassifying the friendships between men in older movies as being laden with homoerotic undertones. This is sometimes accurate (the original version of Lord of the Flies, for example), but just a pipe dream in others (the Lethal Weapon movies). Some gay activists just can't imagine that two men can be great friends without there being something sexual behind it. Thankfully, most gays and lesbians don't think that way, and they enjoy friendships with members of the same gender that are not remotely sexual.

If anything, I'd put forward the "smoldering looks" between Rhett Butler and Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind. How did they keep their hands off each other...

:P

For the best - Maybe it's just because Johnny Depp could make a scene with a lamp post look sexy, but Sleepy Hollow was brimming with it - from Ichabod with both Brom and the Horseman. While Jack Sparrow and Will Turner certainly had some steam rising... As for the worst? Blades of Glory, on purpose.

Aaron R wrote:

Some gay activists just can't imagine that two men can be great friends without there being something sexual behind it. Thankfully, most gays and lesbians don't think that way, and they enjoy friendships with members of the same gender that are not remotely sexual.

while I totally agree with you on Rhett and Ashley, I have to clarify this bit - it's not just gay activists who do a postmodern read on classic cinema. Many film critics do as well, because for decades (and most of the time, still today) the only way to show queer connections between characters (male or female couples) without demonizing or parodying them was to use subtext. Sometimes it feels like a reach, but often it's deliberate. In later interviews, Wyler made it clear he intended such subtext between Ben-Hur and Messala, but he only told Boyd, because Heston wouldn't play it that way. On the screen, it still comes through.