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Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
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We’re in our final stretch for June’s theme of MOVIES ARE GAY and we discuss one last classic film of subtext and suppression before we rip the mask off and step from the closet and into the light. It took us a long time to get to Elizabeth Taylor, who is the iconic starlet gay ally, and Marlon Brando who we would guess is probably “aggressively pansexual”. It seems like you could literally picture Brando doing any fluid or freaky thing, truly. This divisive, amber tinted, 1967 John Huston adaptation of Carson McCullers’ ‘REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE” probably deserves more attention just for the parody potential alone. Taylor and Brando are no strangers to playing pent up sweaty southerners, it seemed like Taylor’s thing for a while, but they’re all suppressed here on this military academy fort. Brando’s Major Penderton is so closeted that he can get off to looking at pictures of the statue of David. His wife could not have picked a worse husband but she gets hers from Brian Keith’s Colonel Langdon. Then you have Robert Forster playing a peeping tom. Julie Harris playing a mentally ill woman with a gay filipino companion who is easily the most unapologetically themself person in this whole movie. Montgomery Clift was supposed to play opposite Taylor but he passed away. RIP Montgomery Clift, you classic queen. We found this link to the movie with Spanish subtitles: https://archive.org/details/reflejos-en-un-ojo-dorado-1967-usa-john-huston-vose
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