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the brass ASSUMING serpico was gay

posted 14 years ago by erikriveros
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curious if the brass ever really thought serpico was gay...i get it that back then, to the other cops if you're an avid reader, are reading a book about ballet, and dress like serpico did you could be perceived as gay...

but they must've known that serpico was married several times, was constantly dating hotties, and all that...

it seems the brass went from 0-to-gay in 1 second flat and it just seemed dumb to me...

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[–] jhray8417 14 years ago

if you're talking about the bathroom scene, i just wrote that off as a boss who was very old school and just didn't like serpico....to your point, anyone who knew him at all would know he wasn't gay.

[–] Judimex 13 years ago

I didn´t think he dressed gay at all. People did dress like that in the 70´s.

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[–] shonoffilm 13 years ago

Everyone didn't dress like Serpico in the 60's and 70's when this took place. He was considered weird, a hippie/hipster of sorts to the straight laced typical men of that era. Kinda like in today's era where you see the "metro-sexual's" and the "hipsters" a lot of men do consider men who dress in those styles to be odd/gay even if it's obvious that they are not. They are just simply different.

[–] vpilutis 13 years ago

What 1970s? He joined the force in 1959, look at some of the outfits at the ceremony and the rest of the outfits during the film and the Hosp scenes.
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[–] godzillaprime 13 years ago

I love when the.... not commissioner, the old guy though, when he starts "Did you know Serpico is a fag?"

I have nothing against the gay community, I just love how desperate piggies can get.

[–] koffeenkreame41-1 13 years ago

The commissioner thinks Serpico is gay when he sees him joking with someone in a high pitched voice and spins off into the bathroom. I think Serpico had a different look than the other cops, the commissioner didn't like him for that reason alone.

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[–] vpilutis 13 years ago

That bit in the Men's room reminds of when I worked at Paramount Pics NYC HQ (1981 to 1986) in the Computer rm
There were windows that faced some of the apt houses in the Columbus Cir area.
I used to hear stories about some of the SEXY things they had seen with the binoculars they kept in the Boss's office. All I ever got was some guy in his bath.

Nowadays the building is the Trump Tower Hotel

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[–] kag2 12 years ago

Serpico was a bit of a loner, somewhat different, and hardly your typical cop, so when he does those ballet moves the stuffed shirts got even angrier. Did that semi-Nazi officer really think Serpico was gay? Maybe. Some small-minded persons accuse non-conformists, so maybe he really believed that nonsense in the bathroom.

[–] koffeenkreame41-1 12 years ago

Agreed. I bet that's how it was for a loner like Frank.

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[–] jconn426 11 years ago

I caught it on Netflix the other night for the first time since I was a kid. I was hoping he'd call Serpico a SLACKER! (Didn't he EVER have hair?)

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[–] crypticanomaly73 9 years ago

I saw it as a way of discrediting him and isolating him. He was already different and not playing ball so anything to push him further to the edges would have been the plan.

Sometimes a movie or tv show plot is so stupid that only the stupid can understand it.