I'm gay, don't take offense, but there was a very STRANGE tone throughout the film. From the Bird on his weird eye contact fetish and the beautification of all these shirtless make soldiers running around the base to the drag version of Cinderella... What was going on?
shareThat was definitely what I thought when I saw the film. The Watanabe character looked so effeminate with his gentle features and long eyebrows. He singled out Louie and apparently paid him unusual attention, repeatedly demanding Louie to "look at him". When he was finally unable to break Louie's spirit and make him submit, he broke down and cried like a girl. There was indeed suggestions of strong homoerotic tension between the two.
Btw, why was he called "the Bird"?
Watanabe reminded me of the Turkish Bey in Lawrence of Arabia, except that I don't think he got what he wanted.
they said if they called him anything worse than the bird ,he would kill them
I had a strong suspicion that the Bird was gay and was in love with Louie. Of course, he couldn't do anything about it so he beat him out of frustration and anger.
shareExactly, the Bird's reactions were typical of a rejected and jealous gay lover.
shareWhen you read the book it is made clear that the Bird derived sexual pleasure from his torture of the inmates in the camp and had a sick fascination with Louis. I can't recall if this was due to sadism. suppressed homosexuality or both. The book also explores the Bird's psyche a bit more- he would force inmates to spend time with him in social settings and was deeply disturbed. After the war he did marry and I believe fathered children.
shareI saw a movie the other day with a strange _heterosexual_ tone.
It's a movie. Get on with life. Be happy. We will all die anyway.
The Bird actor looks like Angelina Jolie's old girlfriend who was lesbian.
share😂You were thinking and thinking and thinking and thinking...I do not know how people come to such strange conclusions...😂
shareHow do you know her old girlfriend was a lesbian? Jolie also mated with Brad Pitt, but does that make him straight?
share"How do you know her old girlfriend was a lesbian? Jolie also mated with Brad Pitt, but does that make him straight?"
Yes. Yes it does. Brad Pitt having sex with Angelina Jolie does, in fact, make Brad Pitt a heterosexual man.
A woman having sex with Angelina Jolie does, in fact, make that woman either a lesbian, or bisexual.
Nevertheless, I'm very straight but I agree with the OP that Watanabe seemed to have a repressed homosexual thing for Zamperini. Maybe it is because the actor who played Watanabe was such a pretty boy, he looked like he was going to kiss the Zamperini actor. Especially when they were watching the Cinderella play with the prisoners in drag, and Watanabe came over, pushed Phil aside, sat next to Zamperini, and it seemed to me was propositioning him, the whole scene had a very gay vibe. Either that, or it was the guys' bare asses, or the guys cuddled up together in a life raft for half the movie. Yes, there was a gay subtext.
"Enough of that technical talk, Foo!"
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Yes. Yes it does. Brad Pitt having sex with Angelina Jolie does, in fact, make Brad Pitt a heterosexual man.
A woman having sex with Angelina Jolie does, in fact, make that woman either a lesbian, or bisexual.
I do not get it, do you gays have to see gay subtext everywhere?😕
shareDrag version of Cinderella is a reference to Grand Illusion and maybe Bridge on the River Kwai (not sure about it, but this movie rips a lot of stuff from it).
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