It's not the cliches I have and issue with in the fast and the furious, I had very little expectations when I went to the movie, but they killed off the best and coolest character after 15 minutes! She was my main reason to go. The rest are just musings about how the female heterosexual alibi is back in certain hard core action movies again. This movie is not only aimed at a US audience, it's so painfully only aimed at a US male audience. The rest of us should not think movies about fast cars worthwhile.
Slash arose due to tensions between supposedly heterosexual male characters on film and tv, and these tensions were so exciting and powerful, that love stories and sex stories started to be written about two (in main culture hetero)characters, and it became a pretty powerful subculture, written mainly but not exclusively by women for women. But it all started with two supposedly heterosexual men on the screen, being more interested in each other than in any woman. I think the first real slash pairing were Kirk/Spock in old style Star Trek, long before the internet even.
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Date: 2009-04-29 05:46 pm (UTC)Slash arose due to tensions between supposedly heterosexual male characters on film and tv, and these tensions were so exciting and powerful, that love stories and sex stories started to be written about two (in main culture hetero)characters, and it became a pretty powerful subculture, written mainly but not exclusively by women for women. But it all started with two supposedly heterosexual men on the screen, being more interested in each other than in any woman. I think the first real slash pairing were Kirk/Spock in old style Star Trek, long before the internet even.