12/21/2023 0 Comments Fried green tomatoesI had read the book on which it was based - Fannie Flagg’s 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - and loved it. It came out just after Christmas in 1991, and I went to see it right away. (Do watch the sex scene, and know that I have talked about this psychosexual disaster in therapy.)Īgainst this bleak landscape, where I felt my best hope was not to be horrified, Fried Green Tomatoes felt like a perfect movie to me. But The Hunger was stylish, fun, and hot - and without the benefit of the internet to warn me, I saw it with my mother. Yes, it was hashtag-problematic that Deneuve plays a vampire who lures (the formerly straight) Sarandon into her murderous lifestyle - just one more film in the toxic tradition of depicting LGBT people as killers (see also: Rope, Cruising, Dressed to Kill, and zillions more). Oh, and then there was 1983’s The Hunger, in which Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve actually do have an explicit sex scene. To offer one pathetic example, I remember rushing to see the 1987 thriller Black Widow because I’d heard that the characters played by Debra Winger and Theresa Russell had a sexualized (and totally unfulfilled) dynamic. What did exist for us either illustrated self-hatred ( Personal Best, 1982), or was bowdlerized ( The Color Purple, 1985), or existed entirely in subtext. We so rarely saw ourselves onscreen! Lesbians were particularly invisible. I yell because I want them to understand what it was like, and I yell because I get mad all over again. Whenever I talk to younger queer people about how little LGBT representation there was in movies and on TV when I was a closeted teenager in the ’80s, I end up yelling.
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