tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770944055299241586.post1678493018217240526..comments2024-03-24T12:38:44.642-07:00Comments on The Raving Queen: This Movie Is A Gay Man's Fantasy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!The Raving Queenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01700003803433178894noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770944055299241586.post-62281086818950791632017-02-06T11:16:44.692-08:002017-02-06T11:16:44.692-08:00I've always had a complex relationship to this...I've always had a complex relationship to this film. On one hand, I dream of being Laura (who doesn't?): glamorous, sophisticated, with a blue-collar, uber-butch, uber-protective policeman for a lover. OTOH, I'm also that cop Marc McPherson (Dana Andrews), a less-educated but street-smart mook who yearns for some magical image of 1940s Manhattan chic and refinement to sweep me off my feet and agree to take me on. On the third hand, I'm Waldo: a conflicted, not-always-self-aware obsessive enthralled with the ideal of molding Laura to suit me yet also powerless to resist Marc's brutish masculine allure.<br /><br />Of course, forty+ years after I first saw this film on PBS-13, I must accept it as unattainable fantasy. The 1940s are long gone, along with the wonderful NYC of that era, Laura herself proved to be somewhat of a sham (tho an endearing one), Marc wasn't all that bright after all, and Waldo was a friggin psycho who ended up dead and exposed, his carefully-wrought image obliterated.Videolamanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17085408408647466431noreply@blogger.com