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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 424173" data-attributes="member: 57984">Peter O&#039;Toole, he of the double-phallic name (much like Roddy McDowall), made no boners about the homoerotic undercurrents of BECKET.I first saw BECKET as a teenager and was, initially, rather bored by it -- and even at that age, I wasn&#039;t normally put off by turgid dialogue films, but it totally didn&#039;t work for me, this much-ballyhooed picture... Which is notable, because I don&#039;t tend to change my tastes or opinions on film terribly much. But BECKET has been different: by my forties, my appreciation for the film has skyrocketed; its cold, Halloweenish hollowness (and I mean that in a good way) is transfixing to me now, a bit like a cinematic seance.LION IN WINTER has even more operatic repartee, and I&#039;ve learned both pictures have a rabid pro-and-anti fanbase: some dismiss LION as garish and vulgar &quot;trash&quot; and regard BECKET as noble art... I think that clannish, binary thinking is kind of ridiculous, as both films are brilliant, albeit with an obviously different tone.<img src="https://www.filmgazm.com/uploads/1/8/1/2/1812902/published/becket-still.jpg?1594358507" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 424173, member: 57984"] Peter O'Toole, he of the double-phallic name (much like Roddy McDowall), made no boners about the homoerotic undercurrents of BECKET. I first saw BECKET as a teenager and was, initially, rather bored by it -- and even at that age, I wasn't normally put off by turgid dialogue films, but it totally didn't work for me, this much-ballyhooed picture... Which is notable, because I don't tend to change my tastes or opinions on film terribly much. But BECKET has been different: by my forties, my appreciation for the film has skyrocketed; its cold, Halloweenish hollowness (and I mean that in a good way) is transfixing to me now, a bit like a cinematic seance. LION IN WINTER has even more operatic repartee, and I've learned both pictures have a rabid pro-and-anti fanbase: some dismiss LION as garish and vulgar "trash" and regard BECKET as noble art... I think that clannish, binary thinking is kind of ridiculous, as both films are brilliant, albeit with an obviously different tone. [IMG]https://www.filmgazm.com/uploads/1/8/1/2/1812902/published/becket-still.jpg?1594358507[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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