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situation: bears hot on my heels
Dec. 12th, 2012 12:37 pmNine days until Yuletide stories are due (oh my!). My plan was to use today and tomorrow, my days off this week, to finish the draft. Naturally, yesterday I came down with a cold and I feel icky and fluff-brained.
In other news, I watched The League of Gentlemen (the 1960 movie about British ex-officers robbing a bank, not the much later TV comedy series). I found it enjoyable--there's some good dialogue and characterization, plus all the fun of watching them plan and carry out the heist. It's marred, though, by a kind of sexism I think of as endemic to the 1950s and 1960s, probably as backlash to women's active public roles during the war: women characters are few, peripheral, and all fit into the opposed stereotypes of the passive fuckable object to be acquired or the castrating bitch.
Interestingly, however, and perhaps not surprisingly given that director Basil Dearden would go on to make Victim (an Issue Film about the injustice of the British laws against homosexuality and the way those laws made men vulnerable to blackmail) the next year, The League of Gentlemen includes a gay man depicted in a fairly nonjudgmental way. ( Click here to read more, not spoilery for plot )
In other news, I watched The League of Gentlemen (the 1960 movie about British ex-officers robbing a bank, not the much later TV comedy series). I found it enjoyable--there's some good dialogue and characterization, plus all the fun of watching them plan and carry out the heist. It's marred, though, by a kind of sexism I think of as endemic to the 1950s and 1960s, probably as backlash to women's active public roles during the war: women characters are few, peripheral, and all fit into the opposed stereotypes of the passive fuckable object to be acquired or the castrating bitch.
Interestingly, however, and perhaps not surprisingly given that director Basil Dearden would go on to make Victim (an Issue Film about the injustice of the British laws against homosexuality and the way those laws made men vulnerable to blackmail) the next year, The League of Gentlemen includes a gay man depicted in a fairly nonjudgmental way. ( Click here to read more, not spoilery for plot )
