Slash Stories

[Tony]

Dues Dirk know abot The BSG Slash stories out ther? And How did he fill about tham?

All I have to say is, at lest Starbuck is a man in tham. :wink:

All right I'll say it. I Love them. And thay have set me Free. :P

[Tracy]

Dirk knows about slash.
I don't think it's his cup of tea though.
But to each his own :)

[Tony]

Thas to bad. Some of the Stories are wall written.
Some still my hart and other make me cry.

But if it not his cup of tea, why dues his move have a Slash them to it? :?

I Should not be asking. But I herd about it. :oops:

One never knows when you read somthing on the net. :roll:

[Tony]

Cahoots is the story of two men (portrayed by Keith Carradine and David Keith) who reconnect after years apart. On the surface, their lives have gone in opposite directions. One is married, successful and settled; the other is divorced, unemployed and prowling. A simple get-together for drinks leads to a nihilistic descent into macho hell. The only thing that survives the reunion is their love for one another.

It has a slash them to after all. So why is it not his cup of tea if it's in HIS move?

[Tracy]

Cahoots is the story of two men (portrayed by Keith Carradine and David Keith) who reconnect after years apart. On the surface, their lives have gone in opposite directions. One is married, successful and settled; the other is divorced, unemployed and prowling. A simple get-together for drinks leads to a nihilistic descent into macho hell. The only thing that survives the reunion is their love for one another.

It has a slash them to after all. So why is it not his cup of tea if it's in HIS move?

Have you seen this movie?

[Tony]

Is thar is or is thar not a Man being Raped in HIS Move?
That is one form of Slash.

[julie w]

"Is thar is or is thar not a Man being Raped in HIS Move?
That is one form of Slash."

Actually it's oral rape (of course, rape is rape - period). And rape has nothing to do with sex. It's just a tool that they use. It's force and control and evil. (I'm sure I'm preachin' to the choir on that one as I'm sure you must be well aware of that.)

But - yeah, I would *highly* suggest you watch the movie somehow (look for it to come on somewhere on your cable provider. You can buy the movie for the night. Sometime they'll make you buy the channel for the whole month - which is what happened to me. But it was a good movie so it was worth it.) because - just like in every situation in life - until you know the whole story, you really don't know the story at all.

Have a good one,

Julie

[Tracy]

There is a great saying that goes

"What I say isn't necessarily what you hear". The same would apply to storytelling..which of course is what movies are all about.

I hope you get to see the film and decide for yourself what it's about and what is portrayed. It's a good film and worth viewing :)

[Tony]

Sorry to say this. But it's not about you and what you are saying.
It's about what Dirk is showing us.

Slash Stories or moves are not just about Sex. It also can be about about love.The love of two men or two women. Form what I hear Dirk's move is a Slash move.
And I would love to see it. :wink:

[ostarella]

I think you're mixing up love as in sex and love as in friendship. I haven't been fortunate to see the movie yet, either, but my understanding is there is no sex between the main two characters (someone correct me if I'm wrong). They are *friends*.

In general, I suppose any movie that has any same gender sex *could* be called slash - that doesn't mean that was the intent of the movie maker, or that it's the main theme of the movie. In this case, I think it would be akin to calling a "Red Riding Hood" movie a vigilante film - after all, there is the woodcutter coming to the rescue ;-)

[julie w]

Those two men *did* love one another. As a brother loves a brother - not as a lover to a lover. There are a few women outside of my family that I love very much.....but I'm not gay by a long shot. Look, people have been reading into situations since the dawn of time and nothing will ever change in that area. What I find annoying (and I'm really not trying to be mean or preachy or anything. I mean this very respectfully...) is that when I was growing up you would have two people of the opposite sex hanging around each other in a very innocent and platonic friendship. However, some people would look at that and say:

"Oh, you know that Julie and (whoever), they hang around each other all the time....you know *something's* gotta be going on there. They've GOT to be romantically involved on SOME level."

I didn't care what they said because *I* knew (as well as the guy) what was going on - NOTHING! So people could jsut say what they wanted. Now adays, people say the same thing about two people of the same sex. You can't win. It's stupid. Yes, in some cases, someone may indeed be correct in their assumptions but not always. Quick example:

Quite a few years back, I was driving my husbands grandmother to work. We had to drive by a coffee shop to get there. There were two men getting out of seperate cars, talking together, walking together - BUT not holding hands or anything close to that - and they walked into the coffee shop. My husbands grandmother laughed and said..."Well, I guess we know what *they* are.". I jsut looked at her like she had taking too much of her medication (because I knew what she was getting at by just the way she was acting). She confirmed that she thought they were gay. I informed her that even her grandson (my husband) sometime meets some of his buddies at that same coffee house just to catch up wiht each other's lives and I *know* HE'S not gay. She agreed.

My point is (obviously) that two guys/girls CAN really be just FRIENDS without being romantically involved. That's how these two guys are in the movie. And not because I *wanted* to see them that way but because that's how it came off to me. However, like I said...people will form their own opinions and some will see what they want to see because that what they're looking for and some will form their oppinion based on what the movie *is* actually saying to them.

Respectfully,

Julie

[Tony]

All right, I have not seen the move. Am going on info I get on the net. But form what I read. Dirk called it a homoerotic move. I guess I should ask the man my self.
Thaks for all you input.

Tony

[ostarella]

Um, I don't think it was Dirk who called it homoerotic - I read a review that called it that, and in an interview (2004), Dirk referred to a reviewer who called it that. I would assume that if he himself thought of it that way, he would have said something to the effect that he agreed with the reviewer, or that the reviewer "got it", or in some way would have affirmed that assessment.