Kerry wrote: >>I agree that Fried Green Tomatoes was a great movie and very true to the book. It's just a shame that they had to "clean up" the lesbian content.<< The same thing happened with Spielberg's version of 'The Color Purple'. The film had some nice scenes but the 'lesbian content' in the book was not so much 'cleaned up' as avoided altogether. Are there (m)any films featuring lesbians which were not put in for reasons of titillation? I recall (and enjoyed very much) 'I've heard the mermaids singing' and 'Antonia's Line' as two films which treat lesbianism sensitively but are there other (mainstream) movies which do not treat lesbians as freaks or perverts or a danger to society? The same thing used to happen to prostitutes in films; they always had to pay the price in the end for violating Hollywood's (and Pinewood's) moral codes, meaning being rejected by the hero, getting shot as an innocent bystander, becoming alcoholic or syphilitic or, in the best of worlds, they would be able to 'reform' and leave a positive message for the audience, much in the same way as Cagney turning chicken before going to the electric chair in order to save the kids from idolising him in (insert film title here, Ed.). mike in bcn
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