A Danish movie about gay neo-Nazis won top honors at the Rome Film Festival Friday:
"Brotherhood" is a story about dangerous love and the search for identity. Following disillusionment with his career, Lars decides to leave the army and is drawn to the Neo-Nazi movement and not least to his peer, Jimmy. The two men become embroiled in a secret love affair, but such forbidden love cannot go unpunished in fascist circles. However, despite all the rules forbidding it, the love and sexual attraction between the two men is so strong that they cannot abandon their affair.
However, as the Associated Press reported Friday, there's more to this story than meets the eye (h/t Big Hollywood):
The winning movie, "Brotherhood," takes a hard look at the neo-Nazi group that the leading character, Lars, joins after leaving the army. The group carries out raids on homosexuals, but Lars and his mentor in the group, Jimmy, begin a love affair that they try to keep secret.
So, the couple falls in love after performing raids on homosexuals?
And such a plot line is worthy of top honors at a film festival?
On the other hand, if Mel Brooks sets it to music and adds some witty punch lines, now you've got something!
All together now, "Springtime, for Lars and Jimmy..."
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No climate change movies this year?
October 24, 2009 - 12:05 ET by JTPThe pickings must be getting slim? Oh well, at least their second favorite religion had an entry this year.
"Live for yourself...there's no one else more worth living for.
Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"- Rush--Anthem
LOL-Noel really needs to watch some football
October 24, 2009 - 12:06 ET by R D Helm:-^)
Wow, the rest of the movies in contention at that film festival must have really sucked.
-Dave
Our elected representatives have failed us.
→ Yes, Dave
October 24, 2009 - 12:12 ET by Cool Arrow"How To Stuff A Wild Burkini" finished a distant second.
LYDSEXICS UNTIE!
Thumbs up
October 24, 2009 - 12:32 ET by nolotrippenWe don't have the thumbs up option here (please), but I give you one anyway.
“It is almost impossible to distinguish a politician from a gangster.” (Will Durant, 1931)
Talk about indecision!
October 24, 2009 - 12:39 ET by motherbeltApparently it's OK to be a swastika-wearin' Neo-Nazi if you're a Gay swastika-wearin' Neo-Nazi!
Wouldn't you just love to see the liberals in that judging room twisting themselves into pretzels over this?
Must have been like the bunch trying to boycott Whole Foods and agonizing over having to eat non-organic by doing it!
mb,
October 24, 2009 - 12:55 ET by R D HelmIt appears the Danes have bought into the history-revisionist BS that the NAZIs were right-wingers.
They weren't, as the real differences between Nazism and communism can be counted on about one finger, two if you really want to get down to brass tacks.
Perhaps it would have been more comfortable for the judges had the plot been about two male commies who fell in love while marching other gay commies off to the Gulags, or worse.
But then, they would have had to wrestle with the fact that commies the world over are historically unfriendly toward homosexuals, and most lefties even today cannot even come to grips with the fact that communism managed to kill a couple of hundred million people in the last century.
Damn, can't people just make normal movies anymore?
-Dave
Our elected representatives have failed us.
→ Brokeback Nazis
October 24, 2009 - 12:10 ET by Cool ArrowSounds like the the left is singing its own version of "Sympathy for the Devil"
LYDSEXICS UNTIE!
Just what we need, yet
October 24, 2009 - 12:33 ET by Jack BauerJust what we need, yet another friggin' yawn inducing movie about men banging each other.
Let's hope there no scene in a pup tent, or a sauna. Brokeback Reichstag, indeed.
Now I won't be able to ask for a coffee and Danish to go, without it being misinterpreted.
And I hate to break it, but Mel Brooks already did the camp Gay Nazi schtick in The Producers. Springtime for Hilter und Germany, et al.
Gay Nazis 1, Medal of Honor winners 0
October 24, 2009 - 12:29 ET by KC MulvilleStill waiting for the Hollywood version of Congressional Medal of Honor winner Mike Murphy's story. I suppose they can't write the story because they can't see where the drama was in the story. From CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/22/murphy.medal.of.honor/index.html
KC
October 24, 2009 - 12:44 ET by BlondeHave you read Luttrell's book? Lone Survivor.
Highly recommend it.
I hope he fails, too.
God's laughing at me again
October 24, 2009 - 13:01 ET by KC MulvilleThanks, Blonde
I'm not kidding ... just this morning I was complaining that there were so few "attractive" books out there. I browse through massive bookstores in the mall every other week or so, and nothing leaps out at me. Is it because there are no good stories around, or is it that the publishing houses simply don't know how to distribute those stories in a way that grabs attention?
And not long after that, purely by accident, this little story pops up. Proving once again that God enjoys making me look like an idiot.
KC
October 24, 2009 - 13:05 ET by Candance MooreMainstream bookstores are pretty much the MTV of the literary world. Better to cruise Amazon.
Bookstores
October 24, 2009 - 13:18 ET by KC MulvilleI know, but it's a habit. Let's face it, browsing a book store is as much a habit as going to a sporting goods store to swing the newest thousand dollar driver. You just gotta do it.
Local Borders
October 24, 2009 - 13:51 ET by ChristianRebelYou've pretty much pegged them Candance.
My local Borders just recently hid the anti-liberal books (anything by Beck, Malkin, and "Liberal Facism") in some unseen section of the history department, but some how people still seem to find them since there seems to be very few of them in stock.
They do the same with the religious books, anything that explains the Bible, denounces Islam, or proves mainstream culture wrong is shoved in the back somewhere while the liberal books are up front and center. Yet once again the former seems to be the ones flying off the shevles while the latter sits fully stocked and untouched. There just might be hope yet.
Ah well, KC
October 24, 2009 - 13:14 ET by BlondeJust proves you still have perspective.
I know you enjoy game theory....you might also enjoy (fiction) Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. It's a great read, too....if you enjoy the techno thriller genre (although this one is set in the past, and present...WWII and computers all wrapped in one big present).
I hope he fails, too.
Where have you been, Blonde?
October 24, 2009 - 13:20 ET by KC MulvilleI've been starving for something good to read for months ...
Thanks
De nada, KC
October 24, 2009 - 13:22 ET by BlondeRead the review by "elderbear" for Crypto.
It's long, I'd suggest starting on a Friday night, elsewise no sleep. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did the first two times. Let me know.
I hope he fails, too.
Hey Blonde
October 24, 2009 - 13:36 ET by cajun2I read a great book. Decribes socialism in European society really well. The elites and the working class.
The Elegance of a Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Thanks, cajun
October 24, 2009 - 13:39 ET by BlondeI'm with KC in the book funk boat.
Time to hit Amazon. Thanks for the suggestion. Quite a long while back we had a favorite book Forum (I think before the old forum's got blasted)....perhaps it's time to start it back up.
I hope he fails, too.
Books for sanity
October 24, 2009 - 13:47 ET by cajun2I find reading good books saves my sanity. I can only take so much propaganda. Reading allows me to choose my own brand of brainwashing. Since my daughter is a librarian, I get first dibs. The book I mentioned to you is a hard read but thought provoking. BTW, while reading the book it made me think of you and Georgia Girl. Except for the ending, of course.
I find that reading books
October 24, 2009 - 14:46 ET by MikeBI find that reading books like Michelle Malkin's Culture of Corruption, and Robert Patterson's Dereliction of Duty gets expensive. I'll read a while and get so ticked off at the theives, liars, thugs, crooks, and grifters, that I end up going to the rifle range ... and you know the price of ammo these days.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
what about the gay Islamo-Nazi flick?
October 24, 2009 - 12:39 ET by Jack BauerI'm still waiting for that movie about the conflicted gay Al-Kayda Islamo-Nazi ... or is that Al-Gayda
→ Great flick Bauer
October 24, 2009 - 12:46 ET by Cool ArrowDixon Butts is a great director.
LYDSEXICS UNTIE!
haha. Yes, the great Butts
October 24, 2009 - 12:51 ET by Jack Bauerhaha. Yes, the great Butts and his magnificent oeuvre.
I like that they all die in the end.
Cool and Jack,
October 24, 2009 - 12:59 ET by R D HelmROFL! Dayem, y'all are killing me.
-Dave
Our elected representatives have failed us.
<sound of referee's whistle>
October 24, 2009 - 13:03 ET by KC MulvilleFifteen yard penalty on Cool Arrow ... Unnecessary punning ...
Gay Western Movies
October 24, 2009 - 14:08 ET by matthewdeanCA:
I did hear that since BB Mountain was so popular, Ang Lee wants to stay with the same genre next time out (so to speak).
For his next Gay western, he is currently leaning towards one of two scripts, either:
"Docs' Holliday with Billy the Kid"
-or-
"Jeremiahs' Johnson"
MD
"I may not agree with what your bumper sticker says, but I will defend to the death your right to stick it." (Unknown)
seriously on a roll today.
October 24, 2009 - 14:29 ET by BKeyserseriously on a roll today.
You may already be a weiner!
October 24, 2009 - 12:39 ET by DontFeedTheTrolls'And the winner is. . . . "Danish Teabaggers"!'
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Remember, these are gay Neo-Nazi
October 24, 2009 - 13:37 ET by CO2MakerNot gay Islamic. With bombs in their turbans. Then they'd just have to burn down Denmark. And renew the Hunt for Salman Rushdie, just for good measure.
The more I think about it...
October 24, 2009 - 12:50 ET by Paul GThe more AND more I think about it. We have to unite. The tea baggers and townhallers are good ...but somehow/someway we ALL have to unite to fight this bullshit. I want to think that most Americans still know right from wrong. But I might be wrong. WE cant vote republican any more...RINOs and we cant vote dems. What do we do?
not that I care about this blog, it just shows were going more and more in the sewer
If you listen closely
October 24, 2009 - 13:07 ET by ChristianRebelYou can hear the final nail being hammered into the coffin of decent Hollywood films.
An article and 2 dozen comments
October 24, 2009 - 14:14 ET by vaboxrboyon a movie that none of you have seen. Brilliant!
Cheers,
Chuck
Yeah, but we read the press
October 24, 2009 - 14:20 ET by Jack BauerYeah, but we read the press puff piece (clue: it's printed above). That's risible on its own demerits. Brilliant.
Jack, Don't you just love
October 24, 2009 - 16:29 ET by Chris NormanJack,
Don't you just love the "don't knock it if you haven't seen it" argument? It's threadbare, but still used as if it were fresh. I'm sure these people said the same thing when their fellow liberals knocked the two (?) conservative movies that have come out in the past few years.
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
Chris -- precisely. I
October 24, 2009 - 18:04 ET by Jack BauerChris -- precisely.
I guess the only real way to decide whether to pay to see a movie is to see it first.
The only thing worse than
October 24, 2009 - 21:36 ET by Roger the ShrubberThe only thing worse than gay neo-nazis are gay Illinois neo-nazis.
Is this a modern version of
October 25, 2009 - 07:41 ET by danboIs this a modern version of Ernst Rohm. The homosexual leader of the SA. Who took part in terrorizing the jews. And so many other nice thinks.
But if you get in bed with these kinds of people you can expect something like the Night of the Long Knives.
"You lie!" Rep. Joe Wilson R-(SC)
Now That's A Walking Contradiction If I've Ever Heard One...
October 26, 2009 - 22:16 ET by The7SticksAfter all, weren't gay people among the Nazis' targets for persecution and murder? As I recall, you were executed or some other jazz in Nazi Germany just for coming out of the closet. I mean please.
Oh, and you might want to update the Mel Brooks jokes a bit with some Blazing Saddles references. How about one analogizing the scene where Mongo punches out the horse with an uppercut? I don't know who should play Mongo, so you have any suggestions?