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  • File : 1257473310.jpg-(36 KB, 297x445, Predator_Movie.jpg)
    36 KB Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)21:08 No.5496514  
    "Yes. The whole movie is about repressed homosexuality and the dangers of gay cruising/the AIDS epidemic (the eponymous 'predator'). Mac's compulsive shaving is an attempt to hang on to his heterosexual, masculine identity. It's no coincidence that after Blaine is perforated by the Predator's laser weapon Mac joins the other soldiers in an orgiastic barrage of gunfire and later symbolically breaks the razor whilst drawing blood. Later, Billy draws his own blood and is summarily killed. Dillon decides to 'go it alone' and also succumbs to the Predator. Dutch, the only male character to survive, covers himself in mud for protection, a clear metaphor for prophylactics. Also note the presence of Anna in certain scenes and the numerous phallic and sexual symbols (Blaire's mini-gun, the log that strikes Poncho, the Predator's vagina-like mouth, etc.). Along with Carpenter and Cronenberg's remakes of The Thing and The Fly, McTiernan's Predator is one of the '80s best sci-fi movies to take a familiar story (in this case the Beowulf poem) and use it to comment on the emergence of AIDS.

    In fact you'll find homosexual themes in nearly all of McTiernan's films, from the flirtatious gay parlance between Hans Gruber and John McClane in Die Hard, to a Predator-esque scenario in The 13th Warrior, to the implied incest between Simon and Hans in Die Hard With a Vengeance. I wrote my thesis on this very subject"
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)21:09 No.5496528
    "The storyteller keeps us in suspense about the mysterious killer’s appearance at this time because of it's important to the revelations contained within this macho "fairy" tale. All we know is that it is human shaped and very tall. At this time, Blaine, the Cowboy character (no doubt in attendance to watch over Billy, the “Red Indian”) is killed and at this point a telling occurrence is that Mac is nearly reduced to tears on the spot.

    Clearly Blaine and Mac had been conducting an interracial homosexual love affair. Seeing Blaine brought low, despite the size of his weapon (a giant machinegun that is powered and capable of firing hundreds of bullets – the most obvious penis reference throughout the movie) sends Mac into a frenzy as he “empties his load” into the jungle canopies. This actions symbolises the homosexual man’s inability to create life with his partner, he instead chooses to rage against mother nature, the only female form he can interact with and the one which has denied him the opportunity to create new life with his partner."
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)21:11 No.5496563
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    >>5496528
    >>5496514

    Sometimes...sometimes I want this world to burn...
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)21:12 No.5496573
    Yeah, I believe it.

    Lot's of the 80's-90's action movies were like that. Falling Down is one of biggest examples of this.
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)21:16 No.5496646
    wat
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)21:17 No.5496658
    >from the flirtatious gay parlance between Hans Gruber and John McClane in Die Hard
    >implied incest between Simon and Hans in Die Hard With a Vengeance
    >Clearly Blaine and Mac had been conducting an interracial homosexual love affair.

    I bet /tv/ ships all three of these.
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)21:18 No.5496670
    >>5496514
    >I wrote my thesis on this very subject
    These words make pretty much any statement made before them completely invalid. Enjoy your making up shit, "academic".
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)21:19 No.5496676
    What the christ, some people read too far in to things.

    Not everything HAS to have a meaning or symbol, ugh.
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)21:19 No.5496679
    STFU and GTFO!
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)21:22 No.5496743
    .
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)21:24 No.5496780
    There was a 3 part article written by the director of Commando himself about why Commando is the best film ever made. It's really funny, but it seems to have been removed from the site it was on.
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)21:43 No.5497080
    Deep shit man
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)21:45 No.5497108
    >>5496528
    >>5496514

    That is some of the best bullshit I have ever heard.
    Well done, sir!
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)21:56 No.5497276
    Lol
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)22:07 No.5497438
    Lol, I thought I was the only only one that thought this.
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)22:08 No.5497451
    >>5497438

    You are, you big gay fruit.
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)22:17 No.5497570
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    Everything has symbolism.
    >> Startrek is now deep Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)22:24 No.5497662
    >>5497570
    In b4 fags point out what troi says, she was obviously symbolism for LIES and DECEIT.

    Also the Enterprise is a symbolism of abortion and fetuses
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)22:27 No.5497707
    i watched predator with director commentary and some of the things he says seem to contradict this.
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)22:29 No.5497728
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    >>5496573
    >falling down
    >action movie

    Falling Down was about homosexuality? I know it's directed by Joel Shufaggotaker, but I'm pretty sure it was about the changes in the economy and consumerism, not gayness.
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)22:30 No.5497743
    >>5497728
    Consuming and the economy are gay.
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)22:41 No.5497903
    falling down was not about fags.
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)22:49 No.5498010
    Blain: Bunch of slack-jawed f@gg0ts around here. This stuff will make you a god damned sexual ty-ran-toe-sore-ass, just like me.
    Poncho: [holds up his grenade launcher] Yeah, strap this on your "sore ass", Blain.
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)22:56 No.5498083
    Predator was totally gay.

    Remember the beginning, when the black guy and Arnie meet greet each other for the first time? They do this half-high5 - half-armwrestle thing. Their muscles are swelling. Their veins are bulging. They're all oiled up and greasy.

    Totally gay, bros.
    >> Anonymous 11/05/09(Thu)23:00 No.5498132
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    Predator...gay....

    GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER



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