Rewrite the movie

[NotHardUp1]

Stupid me. I was watching Going All The Way (with Jeremy Davies and Ben Affleck.) WHY did I think there would be a suppressed gay theme as the plot twist? The closest it comes is completely not implied, but we could inject that Sonny's father is a closeted gay who married and is living the life of Walter Mitty in his wife's shadow. Not.

OK, so I put forth my own rewrite. Sonny and Gunner flounder in post-Korean War Indiana, only to find that Gunner has been compensating as a jock for his entire adolescence and Sonny has been too dominated by him mother to even be aware that his attraction is to men, as sex has been unspoken in his home since he was born.

Yeah, that's a bit old school, but it STILL beats the actual plot of the movie, making the two opposites best buds and wholly platonic.

What about you? What movie or play have you watched and hated, wanting it to be gay or better or . . . ?

Oh, and for you Affleck haters (and you know who you are), I'll jerk off to whom I damned well please, thank you very much!

 

[Peloso]

On paper, Ben Affleck is horrendous. But if he were standing next to me right now, I can guarantee that by six o'clock this evening he'll be sitting solemly with a police therapist pointing at all the naughty parts of a doll.

I don't share the belief that gay characters/relationships/culture need to be thrown into every other film just for the sake of it. If I wanna see gay, I'll just look in the mirror. I can understand the want or need for representation, but not when it compromises the plot or turns a character's arc into a pretzel.

But then again, romances bore me to death. I'm sure if I liked them, I'd get plenty tired of seeing two hets sucking face incessantly.

 

[NotHardUp1]

That's just it. I honestly thought the title was about a gay couple finding out their sexuality.

I mean the channel it was playing on was just one away from Revry, so I figured it was almost gay.

 

[gaysian85]

I was watching a YouTube review on the animated Quest for Camelot and how it messed up telling a good story and how there was potential for it to be a good movie. I have an idea of how to improve the movie without adding or removing too much of the characters or key plot points.

First, Kayley is an adventurous girl who also is the type to think outside of the box and come up with creative solutions to problems. This would give her more personality and show kids that creativity can help you see things in a different way you didn’t know existed.

Second change would be with the dragons Devon and Cornwall who are now two separate dragons who are each other’s only friend until they meet Kayley and Garett. Cornwall is still taller and now voiced by Tim Curry and thinks of himself as a well cultured dragon. Devon is shorter and rounder and voiced by Don Deluise using his cowardly friend voice. They are outcasts from their kind because they refuse to fight any knights and this is a big deal in dragon society because surviving a fight with a knight is an important milestone in becoming a real dragon. Cornwall refuses to fight any knights because he thinks it isn’t very cultured and he thinks violence is a sign of low class. Devon won’t fight any knights because he’s terrified of them and even the word “night” will give him a panic attack. Kayley explains that Excalibur has been stolen and she wants their help in retrieving it and the dragons politely refuse. Kayley then comes up with a brilliant idea that gets the dragons to help her. She asks about the dragons fighting knights custom and how exactly it is accomplished. Cornwall explains that a dragon must challenge a knight to a fight and survive. Kayley then asks if there is a rule that says that the knight has to be good. Devon says there is no and it has to be a knight that the dragon has to fight. Kayley then tells the two that they can become real dragons and accepted by all the other dragons is they help her fight Ruber’s knights and it would count as evil knights are still knights and there’s no rule saying that the knights fought must be good.

 

[NotHardUp1]

^ Sounds like you should get to writing it, if for nothing else, to enjoy it.

 

[Araucaria]

I love the quirky, offbeat movie Harold and Maude. But I disagree with the end of the movie when Maude commits suicide. That strikes me as a false note, something a cynical youth counterculture, or young people who haven't lived life would come up with. I'm sorry, but nobody commits suicide when they're at the top of their game, enjoying life, as the elderly Maude (Ruth Gordon) was enjoying her affair with Harold (Bud Cort), who was 60 years her junior. No, you don't say that you're on a peak, so therefore I'm exiting the stage right now. I suppose the filmmakers thought it would be a real contrast for the young Harold to see a real suicide, after the film began with him staging spectacular fake suicides to shock his mother. But no, nobody commits suicide when their life is good.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I love the quirky, offbeat movie Harold and Maude. But I disagree with the end of the movie when Maude commits suicide. That strikes me as a false note, something a cynical youth counterculture, or young people who haven't lived life would come up with. I'm sorry, but nobody commits suicide when they're at the top of their game, enjoying life, as the elderly Maude (Ruth Gordon) was enjoying her affair with Harold (Bud Cort), who was 60 years her junior. No, you don't say that you're on a peak, so therefore I'm exiting the stage right now. I suppose the filmmakers thought it would be a real contrast for the young Harold to see a real suicide, after the film began with him staging spectacular fake suicides to shock his mother. But no, nobody commits suicide when their life is good.

I agree.

It's possible someone will die sacrificially to try to save others, but that's not really suicide as we know it.

That did seem like a contrivance in the plot.