the groundhog day project

The thing is, while I looked up Gregory Widen (the screenwriter) I couldn't find anything connecting him to gay themes or whatnot. Couldn't find much about his life at all. But, Russell Mulcahy (the director)--yeah, he's gay. "No one has ever known we were among you... Until now." Then there's the soundtrack songs by Queen. We open on professional wrestlers, men in tight clothes jumping on each other. CUT TO men in furs tackling each other in the past. And, then MacLeod has to run off to a secret meeting in the parking lot. MacLeod, by the way--Lambert was cast before the director even knew he was only just learning English. Basically, he was cast for his look. It isn't just because it's an 80s action movie that it leans into a homoerotic male gaze. That's kinda the nature of film. If a shot is going to linger, of course it will do so lovingly a great deal of the time. How else do you stare at anything but with strong emotion. ...

On March 3, 1969 the United States Navy established an elite school for the top one percent of its pilots. Its purpose was to teach the lost art of aerial combat and to insure that the handful of men who graduated were the best fighter pilots in the world. They succeeded. Today, the Navy calls it Fighter Weapons School. The flyers call it: Top Gun Well, first let’s nitpick. They actually call it Topgun . And, if the problem was too many pilots dying—as they mention in this film, shouldn’t you be putting, you know, every pilot through this schooling? It’s like some anti-Marxist, Protestant work ethic, pro-capitalist conspiracy—take the best, make ‘em even better. Kinda sums up a great deal of the 1980s in America, actually. Look at Wall Street (or Wall Street ), for example—a small bunch of guys trading all the money and getting rich off of everyone else. Greed is good and all that. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer while we’ve got our Navy boys patrolling the Indian O...