No, I have not been looking up dirty Yiddish words now. Ok, maybe I have.

[rispacooper]

Um...Gunsel means cocksucker (*cough* I mean catamite *cough*)? Damn people need to let me know this shit. And why did Dashiell Hammett know that but mostly Jewish studio execs didn't?


Oh oh OH the subtext now.


Or did they? And let it go by in a subtle form of revenge? Because suddenly there is much much gay in the Maltese Falcon, not just Joel Cairo (and the whole set in San Francisco thing). Would explain the super-perviness of Spade though (see, he likes wimmin, he rilly rilly does). But why as a writer include so much gay at all then? Maybe a little obsession and interest there, Mr. Hammett?

*Fascinated*

Comments

[dlasta.livejournal.com]

It's so nice that you share your information.:D

Damn, I'd love there to be some sort of behind the screen type of documentary about those olden classics. Think of the subtext and gossip!

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

Well there's the Celluloid Closet, but that did not mention The Maltese Falcon.

[dlasta.livejournal.com]

Celluloid Closet should really have a part two out by now. It's *old* and so much has happened in the last ten years.

And I really would like to know all gossip, you know, who hated/did who and so on, not just the gay stuff. (Tho, the gay stuff is the best stuff.:)