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I got really confused I mean It says it's the Gay Divorce yet they were a man and women? Someone please explain
So hard to believe that I couldn't see
You were always there beside me
gay means more than homosexual.
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Gay really means happy, or at least it did when this movie was made.
shareAt the time, "gay" usually meant "happy".
How could you not have known that?
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Now I know the perfect kiss is the kiss of death.
The original meaning of the word back in the '30s, when this film was made, meant "happy." Using it to mean homosexuality is a very new term, since people being gay wasn't openly acknowledged back then.
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Maybe today's young people think the title refers to the supporting characters played by Eric Blore and Erik Rhodes! I mean, they both did seem a little light in the loafers, you know.
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Also, Carioca meant Brazilian Dance. Now it means drunk person who can't sing. My how times have changed.
shareA Carioca is, in Brazilian Portuguese, someone living in Rio de Janeiro, if we move to talk about A&R's previous film, "Flying Down to Rio".
"karaoke" is quite separately from Japanese, loosely "sing-along", and with the ambience that usually supports it, could very well come to mean what you say!
Until the 1950s, 'making love' meant less the physical act and more what leads up to it.
The lyrics from Night & Day, for instance:
And this torment won't be through
Until you let me spend my life making love to you
Day and night, night and day
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Even in the 1956 film High Society the song You're Sensational has the lyric "Making love is quite an art...", so even then it still would have meant romancing rather than the physical act.
shareYou can't be serious. I mean, you're joking, right? Please, please say that you're joking.
shareOP: To answer your question, the couple are getting a divorce because they both realized they are gay on the same day at the same time. They had just finished making whoopee and were like "well I didn't like that at all! I do believe I'm gay. Shall we divorce?" Did you miss that line in the movie? Overall, very good movie and well ahead of its time as far as social rights for homosexuals. A solid 8/10.
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