The idea that she might be a lesbian is never brought up, even subtextually. Seems odd, since Hitchcock broached the subject on many a prior occasion.
shareI REALLY don't think Marnie was a lesbian at all. That would actually go against much of what it's about in the first place.
shareShe was frigid. Not a lesbian. Not a frigid lesbian.
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In Ian Fleming's book, GOLDFINGER, the character of Pussy Galore was a lesbian. But not in the film.
shareActually in Goldfinger, which perhaps only coincidentally was the Sean Connery film next released after Marnie, the character Pussy Galore was quite clearly a lesbian who discovered the joys of good old heterosexuality thanks to Sean Connery's character's "efforts". But it took some doing, shall we say.
But I agree that Marnie was not a lesbian at all. She was in the term more commonly used in the past frigid.
She wasn't "quite clearly" anything. You can make an assumption but there's no real evidence in the film to back that up. Goldfinger presents Pussy as a woman too strong for Bond's advances until finally he gets through to her.
shareyes she was in the film they just hint at it but the hints arent there for no reason you have to understand the film was made years ago before people really knew what being gay was so most men really did think a lesbian was just a woman who needed penis
shareYes, in the movie it's only obliquely hinted at, so much so, one barely would know she was supposed to be a lesbian. The only real clue was when Bond flirts with her and she responds with something about being 'immune to his charms.' This is course is easily assumed to mean that she just wasn't the typical woman who melts in his presence the way every other woman on Earth does. No one would automatically assume this meant she was a lesbian. And they wouldn't have made her an open lesbian at that time (they almost had to change her name to Pussy Kat or Kitty Kat or Kitty Galore). In the book she is explicitly stated to be a lesbian though. In fact, in the book, Tilly is not killed (the woman who tried to avenge her sister's murder by killing Goldfinger) but becomes a member of Goldfinger's entourage who then become Pussy Galore's lover. But that isn't the most incredible part of the novel: Goldfinger actually plans to rob Ft. Knox! As Bond explains in the movie, it would be impossible to pull it off. This is one instance where the movie was much better than the book (or at least more believable.)
Off course, then you have to deal with the whole Bond-is-such-an-amazing-lover-he-can-convert-lesbians mess. Maybe it's the accent?
Wait- what was the original question? Oh yea, in today's world everyone seems to think that if a woman doesn't go gaga for a man she must be a lesbian and not just frigid. What a world we live in.
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Everyone may have an opinion but very few seem to have an informed one.
Then perhaps we should deduce from this that... she wasn't a lesbian!
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no in the film she is clearly gay those hints are there because she was gay in the book again you just dont understand that in that day people really did think being gay was just a woman who needed penis its a matter of the time it came out in
shareLearn to punctuate, for *beep*'s sake.
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