the homoerotic (?) "Liaisons" poster art

[Auggie27]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 9:27am

Anyone else think this strange couple swathed in fallen-antebellum-window-treatment-blue satin looks more like two sweaty men? (And equally baffling, why didn't they capitalize on Ms. Linney, as they did the wet Audra for 110? Isn't Laura the event here?)

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 9:38am

What's the point of starting a thread about the poster art if you're not going to even post a photo of said poster art?

[Auggie27]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 9:41am

Obviously, just to piss you off.

Actually, I just haven't located it yet. But it's on every discount mailer, and the poster is ubiquitous. I shall hunt it down.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 9:44am

It doesn't piss me off. I just don't understand the purpose of starting a discussion thread about something without providing whatever the heck it is you want people to talk about.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 9:49am

http://dangerousonbroadway.com/news.htm

check it out.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 9:52am

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 9:59am

Wow.

That is homoerotic. But, I didn't think there was a gay sex scene in "Liaisons" (Granted, I haven't seen it, I'm basing that thought off of what I know of the plot)

[Auggie27]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 10:01am

Bravo! I still say, looks like two fellas -- outtakes from HGTV "Decorating On A Dime."

(Naw, there's no gay scene in it. It's a very straight story, though the whole three-way fantasy angle invites some analysis. Everyone is turned on thinking of everyone else gettting it on with someone.)

Updated On: 4/1/08 at 10:01 AM

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 10:03am

There is no explicit homoeroticism in Liaisons, either the book or the play. You'd never know it by the artwork, however. I THINK the one on top is supposed to be a woman, which sort of makes sense since the Marquise is undoubtedly the most evil person in a work full of evil people.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 10:08am

Yeah, it's a strange choice fo a show starring the lovely, all woman Miss Linney, known as a hirsute blonde. Why doesn't the woman in the picture have her hair down? Why is her back as muscular as an Olympian's, (French health clubs 300 years ago were fierce arenas for upper class dames) unless it's designed to suggest androgeny.

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 10:11am

I think because if you look closely enough at the figure on top you can discern the outline of a woman's breast -- but that was only when I was looking at a full-sized poster in Shubert Alley.

Posted: 4/1/08 at 10:45am

IT reminded me of the Rape of the Sabine Women. Not homoerotic at all.

[jaystarr]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 6:17pm

These are HOMOEROTIC!!!






I still need to find a pictures of:

1. straight guy being blindfolded.
2. guys in a locker room photos with dirty socks
3. two guys wrestling.
4. two drunk fraternity guys passed out lying next to one another

^^^ those are DEFINITELY homoerotic for me!

J*

[dalefully]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 7:42pm

WOW. Now that's good marketing if I ever knew it...

[jaystarr]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 8:35pm

This is what I mean!



Updated On: 4/1/08 at 08:35 PM

[NYadgal]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 8:55pm

Jaystarr, do you ever actually contribute anything of value to a thread? Honestly, it's unnecessary to turn EVERY thread into your playground.

Auggie, it seems like a lost opportunity to feature the magnificent Laura Linney. They could have achieved the seductive tone and connected it to the show they are promoting. There is nothing 'Rococo France' about it.

Updated On: 4/1/08 at 08:55 PM

[jaystarr]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 8:55pm

Shirtless construction guy...


watching Andy Roddick during a tennis match.




Updated On: 4/1/08 at 08:55 PM

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 8:57pm

Jaystarr, what's the point of posting these pictures? There is none whatsoever. This is a thread about the poster.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 8:59pm

Once again, Thank you, Priest.

Updated On: 4/1/08 at 08:59 PM

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 9:05pm

looks like a chick to me. auggie, ya got c-ck on the brain.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 9:51pm

What's with the Sean Cody picture?

[jaystarr]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 10:01pm

[DMsquared2]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 10:01pm

It's clearly a woman. The waist/hips and hair make up for the muscular back.

[Rotel1026]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 10:10pm

I don't see how anyone looks at that picture and immediately thinks it's two men getting it on. Check out that waist, how many men do you know with such a small waist?

[Dollypop]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 10:16pm

Have you ever seem Mr roxy's waistline?

I rest my case.