And well before today's 'LGBTQ+'s' hysteria - there was Grace Jones in a Bond movie, and the quirky Anne Carlisle in Slava Tsukerman's Liquid Sky.
And long long before any of those there was Virginia Woolf's Orlando.
I mean do we really need to go into all of those other examples as well - Marlene Dietrich, or Joel Grey in Cabaret?
A reader here just raised the interesting question as to whether Stanley Kubrick was giving out some kind of warning with his much-mulled-over 'Eyes Wide Shut.'
So there are high society secret sex parties. So? So they are secret and people try to keep their identities secret and revealing them could be deadly for the person who reveals those identities. Even - so? Corrupt deals are done via such secret circles. Okay so somehow anyone cares now, do they? That is, apparently then, these secret cabals are not so extended into every facet of officialdom that maybe, maybe, some cops and courts 'might' act against some of the corruption, if it were to be found out.
Really?
I don't believe that.
No. That's not what I believe. If you're 'in' you can and you will get away with anything and everything... ...so long as it has been sanctioned by the highest 'lords.'
'The Lady Chablis' - out front of the cast of 'Midnight In The Garden Of...' |
No need for warnings there. The secret elites are still in power and in absolute control of all worldly affairs. They are at the top and they will suppress and oppress any eccentric officer and/or underling who has the temerity to try and go against them.
It might be that Kubrick was just enshrining a statement of fact in his body of work.
It might surprise some that for many years there have been learned reviewers who always assumed Ian Fleming's 'Le Chiffre' was based on the London occultist Aleister Crowley, whom he knew or knew of through the UK Intelligence Services that they both worked for during WWII.
Less talked about though, is the possibility that the 'Specter' organization was based on HP Lovecraft's dark and sinister occult 'underground' network that he proposed existed, whose members all worshiped some kind of sea monster a bit like a primordial, and supernatural 'octopus' entity. What they did was surreptitiously enter into some thriving organization and kill it from within, taking it over for their own maleficent ends. The members of this occult network had frog-like eyes, and strange mouths, and were hardly human at all. They wrecked everything they touched.