----------------------------Original message---------------------------- On Apr 16, 10:12am, Rick Ferncase wrote: > Subject: Re: Reservoir Dogs > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > I wish someone would address the fascination Mr. Tarantino exhibits in his > films for male sodomy. There is the prolonged suggestive rough-housing > between Mr. Blonde and Nice Guy Eddie, as well as the graphic if somewhat > less-than-credible act perpetrated upon Marcellus by the gun shop > proprietors. American exploitationist cinema has always rested upon the > twin pillars of sex and violence. Of course Tarantino has a > well-documented taste for violence; but he scarcely gives romantic sex its > due. He doesn't seem comfortable with heterosexual expressions of sex, but > the scatology aspect of buggery seems to have immense appeal for him. > > What's going on here? > >-- End of excerpt from Rick Ferncase Who is being exploited in "American exploitationist cinema"? I think perhaps the "scatalogical" issue you raise is an interesting one. Human excrement as metaphor for somethining bigger? Seriously, though, Tarantino's "well-documented" taste for violence is not a simply dismissed as some would have it. Sorry I am not able to address your query about the male sodomy thing directly but perhaps, especially in PF (pulp fiction) the mythic/hero/boxer's brush with sodomy is a reference to the entire "pulp" miasma - that is, PULP: n. a soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. Food, er, ideas for thought. -- R. Scott Burnham Whatcha makin' there? York University Looks like sodie-pop - North York, Canada Watch it fizz... E-Mail: [log in to unmask] - Foghorn Leghorn