This movie stands out mostly for the Utah scenery, but also, I watched it with my wife and teen daughter, and we were all overcome with the sense of gayness of all the men in it except Clint, and also the way the men were treated. A lot of full facial photography of weird, lingering smiles, strange comments and clothes.... it seemed to be a way for Clint (and maybe Kennedy) to position himself as the only "real man" or something.
shareMy gaydar's usually pretty bad, but I have to say I got a vibe from Miles Mellough. Did anyone else?
As for the others, not so much. They were just being Swiss.
Yes Miles was gay all right. I didn't get that feeling from anyone else though
When I said I wanted to be a comedian, they all laughed at me. Well, they're not laughing now!
Miles' dog was named *beep* - what does that tell you?
shareMy gaydar's usually pretty bad, but I have to say I got a vibe from Miles Mellough. Did anyone else?
You had to look really close, but it was definitely there.
shareMiles was GAY in real life.. well, he was BI-sexual and his son wrote it in his biography..
shareEven Clint sends out a gay vibe in this one.He's trying so hard to be macho it comes across,well,gay in a "Village People" sort of way.
sharenein nein nein nein nein nein!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
clint does not cast gay vibes. musta been wishful thinking on your part.
of all they guys in the movies for you to 'perceive' as gay, LMAO... clint eastwood? hail nawwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you dreamin, loca.
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LTUM :clint does not cast gay vibes. musta been wishful thinking on your part.
of all they guys in the movies for you to 'perceive' as gay, LMAO... clint eastwood? hail nawwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you dreamin, loca.
He cast Kevin Spacey in a movie. What else do you need to know?
shareWhich son? He had four.
shareyou gotta take it in context. in the mid 70s the social move toward 'openess to the idea of gayness' was fresh and newly released, at least on the mainstream front. and hollywood was proud to buy into it. also, most of the europeans have different mannerisms, due to different mores, so femininity in men is not un macho to them. just a thang.
but i agree it could appear gayish to us, looking with todays eyes.
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"Wishful thinking on my part"?Nah!...I'm not into cowboys.
shareI saw ONE gay acting guy. Miles Mellow. Do you always look for gays in the movies you watch?
shareOf course Miles was gay. He named his dog f@ggot for Christ sakes.
shareThat and the character Ben Bowman says he thinks Miles is gay:
Ben Bowman: "He looks like he could change a nine-dollar bill in threes".
(the only way to do that would be if there was a single unit of currency that was worth $3 - or as the old saying goes "Queer as a three dollar bill"
No, there was not a "sense" of gayness from all the men. It is something you wanted to see, many in today's society do this now, so you saw it. seeing "gayness" is the new thing so people see it, even when it is not there.
Miles was openly gay. that was not something you had to look for. It was part of his character and it was damn obvious.
why people cannot watch a decent movie without putting a bunch of bs into them is amazing.
No, there was not a "sense" of gayness from all the men. It is something you wanted to see, many in today's society do this now, so you saw it. seeing "gayness" is the new thing so people see it, even when it is not there.
No, that is not what the op meant. But you bs that you were dishing out pretty much showed you had no chance of figuring that out.
shareYeah, yeah, take your holier-than-thou tripe back under your bridge and chew on it.
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.
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Really? Is this the best you have? Calling somebody self righteous for calling you on your bs? Please explain exactly why you choose the term self righteous. It is one I find people use when they have no substance to their argument.
shareWhat? The OP meant homosexual when he said gay. And the other poster is right, people today view older films from today's POV. They see gayness and bad priests everywhere, you can see this in the Boys Town and Angels with Dirty Faces boats, both films from the 1930s.
shareI didn't think any character but Miles seemed remotely gay.
shareDon't you guys know that any movie that features men interacting with other men in any capacity has gay overtones?
shareOh most definately. Guys cannot be friends today without being gay in some way. Same thing with any film about the friendship of girls. It is the new fad, lets find "gay" or "lesbian" undertones in everything.
shareOnly Miles and F@ggot were gay... and maybe you OP. LoL Just kidding. Don't watch cool dude movies with your wife and daughter, there's where your gay *beep* came from. Have a son and watch it again.
sharethe actor who played Myles was flaming gay, and died from Aids!
NO BS.. its fact!
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ok sorry he was BI-Sexual, even his son david wrote about it! also rumors jack had aids!
shareUnless it's explicit, as in the case of Miles, I never get what everyone's obsession with labeling the relationship between men as "Gay" is. The only gay subtext in the movie was Miles, no where else in the movie do you see this.
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never heard that Jack had aids, but according to son David and ex-wife Shirley Jones, he had an affair with somneone named Cole Porter.
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