08-08-2015, 12:10 AM
(08-07-2015, 02:05 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I was in college when that came out and I believe it was the first movie I saw that dealt with a serious homsexual plot line.
It seemed like before that movie (at least in he films I had seen) homosexuals were either clowns or creepy. The guy Al Pacino played in Dog Day Afternoon was kind of a sympathetic character, but he still came off as crazy.
Makes me realize how much things have changed in just 30 years.
Not about 1985 but your post reminded me of a funny story.
My college roommate and best friend since we were kids. He had a date and was having her over for pizza and a movie. So he rents two movies. And he wanted to look like he knew what was going on so he got on some site to get a top romantic movies. And he got a comedy. His romantic movie was The Crying Game.... Now I knew what this was about and I knew that he didn't know. So I just smiled and wished him luck.
Now what's great is this is a girl he had been out with only a couple of times. And he was way into her and wanted to impress her. So the next day he tells me, after I asked how the movie was, that they were watching the movie and how weird it got at the end. Now he is a buttoned up guy, so his reaction was priceless. He had no idea and he said he made a couple of comments about the girl being nice looking. He said when they showed she was really a he.... He wanted to die.
As he is telling me the story the girl arrived and then she goes into the parts he left out. She had seen the movie before but didn't want to ruin it for him, and liked the fact he made plans. She also said she was watching him for the moment of truth, and said it was all she could do not to laugh. And at this point he was mortified, and she said it was one of the best nights she had in a long time. To this day that story lives on when either of us get together or meets someone new.
