pic drThe straight-washing of “Ben-Hur”: Remake of the ’59 drops gay subtext

[Iceweasel]

Ben-Hur was not Ben-Gay as I recall. Although I am surprised they didn't make it so in the remake.

 

[Blackrook]

People aren't allowed to be friends anymore. The gays even say that Bert and Ernie are gay.

 

[JimBowie1958]

People aren't allowed to be friends anymore. The gays even say that Bert and Ernie are gay.

Yeah, because hand puippets are always gay.

roflmao

You cannot satire this shit because it is just too stupid already, there is no place to make it look any more ridiculous than it already is.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

There was no gay subtheme in the BenHur done in 1959. Judah and Messala were boyhood friends. Judah was in love with, and remained true to Esther. Sounds like Toby Whatshisface is the one unpacking a gay fixation.

I guess boyhood friendship is always gay according to some. Never mind the bond that forms in battle among brothers in arms.

Why didnt you know that for centuries soldiers have been secretly butt fucking each other in their pup tents?

Read it in Salon.

If you were caught doing that in the Roman Army the convicted would be beat to death by their fellow soldiers.

 

[mudwhistle]

There was no gay subtheme in the BenHur done in 1959. Judah and Messala were boyhood friends. Judah was in love with, and remained true to Esther. Sounds like Toby Whatshisface is the o ne unpacking a gay fixation.

The gay subtext was suddenly discovered by gays. It would never have been dreamed of in 1959.

Spartacus had a scene that was cut out of the theatrical release between Tony Curtis and Sir Lawrence Olivier where Crassus puts the make on his body servant.

quote
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you eat oysters?
Antoninus: When I have them, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you eat snails?
Antoninus: No, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral and the eating of snails to be immoral?
Antoninus: No, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Of course not. It is all a matter of taste, isn't it?
Antoninus: Yes, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: And taste is not the same as appetite, and therefore not a question of morals.
Antoninus: It could be argued so, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: My robe, Antoninus. My taste includes both snails and oysters.
Spartacus (1960) - Quotes - IMDb

 

[Katzndogz]

There was no gay subtheme in the BenHur done in 1959. Judah and Messala were boyhood friends. Judah was in love with, and remained true to Esther. Sounds like Toby Whatshisface is the o ne unpacking a gay fixation.

The gay subtext was suddenly discovered by gays. It would never have been dreamed of in 1959.

Spartacus had a scene that was cut out of the theatrical release between Tony Curtis and Sir Lawrence Olivier where Crassus puts the make on his body servant.

quote
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you eat oysters?
Antoninus: When I have them, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you eat snails?
Antoninus: No, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral and the eating of snails to be immoral?
Antoninus: No, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Of course not. It is all a matter of taste, isn't it?
Antoninus: Yes, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: And taste is not the same as appetite, and therefore not a question of morals.
Antoninus: It could be argued so, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: My robe, Antoninus. My taste includes both snails and oysters.
Spartacus (1960) - Quotes - IMDb

Ohhh the scene was cut out!

 

[mudwhistle]

There was no gay subtheme in the BenHur done in 1959. Judah and Messala were boyhood friends. Judah was in love with, and remained true to Esther. Sounds like Toby Whatshisface is the o ne unpacking a gay fixation.

The gay subtext was suddenly discovered by gays. It would never have been dreamed of in 1959.

Spartacus had a scene that was cut out of the theatrical release between Tony Curtis and Sir Lawrence Olivier where Crassus puts the make on his body servant.

quote
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you eat oysters?
Antoninus: When I have them, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you eat snails?
Antoninus: No, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral and the eating of snails to be immoral?
Antoninus: No, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Of course not. It is all a matter of taste, isn't it?
Antoninus: Yes, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: And taste is not the same as appetite, and therefore not a question of morals.
Antoninus: It could be argued so, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: My robe, Antoninus. My taste includes both snails and oysters.
Spartacus (1960) - Quotes - IMDb

Ohhh the scene was cut out!

Yeah......Stanley Kubrick tried to sneak it in. The Blue Ray version has it back in. Shortly after this scene Tony Curtis cuts out of there to join Kurt Douglas (Spartacus) and warn him that the Roman Legion was massing for an attack against him.

Not only was Crassus bisexual and thus considered a perv, but he was jealous of Spartacus and his ability to gain the admiration of his men. Crassus was a great general but he never could gain the kind of devoted followers Spartacus got to fight with him. With him, not for him.

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

People aren't allowed to be friends anymore. The gays even say that Bert and Ernie are gay.

They were...

 

[JimBowie1958]

There was no gay subtheme in the BenHur done in 1959. Judah and Messala were boyhood friends. Judah was in love with, and remained true to Esther. Sounds like Toby Whatshisface is the o ne unpacking a gay fixation.

The gay subtext was suddenly discovered by gays. It would never have been dreamed of in 1959.

Spartacus had a scene that was cut out of the theatrical release between Tony Curtis and Sir Lawrence Olivier where Crassus puts the make on his body servant.

quote
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you eat oysters?
Antoninus: When I have them, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you eat snails?
Antoninus: No, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral and the eating of snails to be immoral?
Antoninus: No, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Of course not. It is all a matter of taste, isn't it?
Antoninus: Yes, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: And taste is not the same as appetite, and therefore not a question of morals.
Antoninus: It could be argued so, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: My robe, Antoninus. My taste includes both snails and oysters.
Spartacus (1960) - Quotes - IMDb

The ancient world had a bisexual perspective on sex, while women were for breeding, boys were for pleasure. The Romans and Spartan military were the exception to that for most of their history and severely punished pederasts and fags. When homosexual sex was engaged in it was generally not anal which was considered foul and disgusting, but was constrained mostly to mutual masturbation and copulating between the thighs, down from the genital region.

What todays fagots think of as normal for them would have been crimes in the ancient world and ghastly filthy.

 

[AmericanFirst1]

There was no gay subtheme in the BenHur done in 1959. Judah and Messala were boyhood friends. Judah was in love with, and remained true to Esther. Sounds like Toby Whatshisface is the one unpacking a gay fixation.

The screenwriter said their was. You and Heston didn't get it.

The screenwriter was probably a lying gay libtard. If it was it was just Hollywood trying to pervert history again.

 

[Blackrook]

People aren't allowed to be friends anymore. The gays even say that Bert and Ernie are gay.

They were...

Prove it.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Wow, they whitewashed Ben Hur. Poor Heston never got it.

The straight-washing of “Ben-Hur”: Remake of the ’59 epic drops gay subtext — and beefs up religious themes

The new “Ben-Hur” is yet another example of queer narratives in entertainment being erased for popular consumption

Judah Ben-Hur’s sexuality has been hotly debated for decades, but a new film is pushing him firmly back into the closet. A new remake of the 1959 William Wyler-directed swords-and-sandals epic “Ben-Hur,” which starred Charlton Heston in the title role of a nobleman turned slave who defeats an empire, is playing down the character’s subtextual homosexuality. Toby Kebbell (“Fantastic Four”), who takes over for Stephen Boyd as Messala, told press at the film’s premiere that such themes were no longer necessary to unpack.


“In 1959, the gay context was very important,” he said. “They need a voice. You shouldn’t have to hide in the dark about something you feel and you’ve grown with. That was their own thing they wanted to portray and we didn’t need to.”
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The shit you fucktards invent.

No Sploogy, the 1959 film was not promoting homosexuality.

 

[Uncensored2008]

[
Er.....yes there was.

Uh, no there wasn't stupid fuck.

The shit you morons try to invent.

 

[Zander]

According to the LWNJ's Jesus was a tranny....

Jesus: The First Transgender Man

 

[mudwhistle]

There was no gay subtheme in the BenHur done in 1959. Judah and Messala were boyhood friends. Judah was in love with, and remained true to Esther. Sounds like Toby Whatshisface is the o ne unpacking a gay fixation.

The gay subtext was suddenly discovered by gays. It would never have been dreamed of in 1959.

Spartacus had a scene that was cut out of the theatrical release between Tony Curtis and Sir Lawrence Olivier where Crassus puts the make on his body servant.

quote
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you eat oysters?
Antoninus: When I have them, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you eat snails?
Antoninus: No, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral and the eating of snails to be immoral?
Antoninus: No, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Of course not. It is all a matter of taste, isn't it?
Antoninus: Yes, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: And taste is not the same as appetite, and therefore not a question of morals.
Antoninus: It could be argued so, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: My robe, Antoninus. My taste includes both snails and oysters.
Spartacus (1960) - Quotes - IMDb

The ancient world had a bisexual perspective on sex, while women were for breeding, boys were for pleasure. The Romans and Spartan military were the exception to that for most of their history and severely punished pederasts and fags. When homosexual sex was engaged in it was generally not anal which was considered foul and disgusting, but was constrained mostly to mutual masturbation and copulating between the thighs, down from the genital region.

What todays fagots think of as normal for them would have been crimes in the ancient world and ghastly filthy.

Seems Crassus was looking for a massage with happy-endings.