Certainly seemed like it, right from the beginning when he nudged him with his shoe, he appeared to be flirting at several points in the early stages of the film.
shareSure he liked Guy. Guy was handsome. Ladies AND (some) men liked Guy.
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Is it still cut out in modern US dvd?
shareGranger may have been gay, but the character he was playing was not. I didn't get any sense of sexuality at all from Bruno, much less an attraction to Guy. He was just plain crazy.
Get me a bromide! And put some gin in it!
bruno was certainly gay, for all of you who haven't read the book by p highsmith, you definitely should, because there you have the whole story which makes actually sense, too; the hitchcock version is a carcass of a story, nothing more, and a what a disappointing one.
shareBruno, in the movie, was not "certainly gay". If he was gay in the book, that's literally another story. The movie, regardless of differences from the book, is a classic. Movies are not meant to be copies of novels. Those who expect them to be will almost always be disappointed.
shareI didn't know Granger was gay, but when watching the film, i thought to myself, he's gay. His being gay, to me, was loud and clear. However, didn't think of the scene as being flirty, but i can see that if some parts were cut how it was diluted.
shareBruno was gay I think that is clear. That was probably part of why his father wants him to get treatment. Aside from making outrageous comments about blowing up the Whitehouse.
You do not consider it a mental illness to just be lazy and irresponsible.
Seems that Bruno's father understood him and was trying to get him help while his retarded acting mother didn't get it.
It's not clear at all that Bruno is gay. He doesn't indicate any sexuality, in either direction. His father surely observed more disturbing traits in him than just being lazy and irresponsible. What Bruno clearly is, is a psychopath. In his twenty-some years of existence, his mental illness had undoubtedly manifested itself before. That's what his father was worried about.
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bruno did not nudge guy with his shoe. it was guy who nudged bruno's shoe, and he said "excuse me."
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I "love" how people automatically assume a person is a homosexual just because they show attraction toward someone of the same sex without also assuming bisexuality. Some people seem to forget that that exists as well.
shareThat strikes me as a strange observation/objection, and one that would only matter to very, very few people. There are very strong hints that Bruno digs dudes, none at all that he's also down with the ladies. Even if you think he might be bi, I'm just not seeing how asking that question would enhance my enjoyment of this film. It seems this is a personal sensitivity you have, but I can't imagine why anyone would apologize for not having the same sensitivity.
shareThere are no hints that Bruno likes either dudes or ladies. He seems about as uninterested in sexuality as possible for a young man. He's just a psychopath who gets off on fucking with people's minds, and murder.
shareOf course he did. In fact, this film is predicated on the demonization of gays--it is the gay man who is the seducer, the lunatic, the lurker, the stalker, the sociopath, and the murderer. Bruno has an overbearing, crazy mother, and a father who has alienated him. His homosexuality, and his failures as a man, human, are apparent through out the entire film--he is the consummate loser--alone in the shadows, even venturing into the Tunnel of Love alone. His social skills are inept, and inappropriate, and he cannot even empathize with a young child holding a balloon at the carnival Even the scene on the carousel is metaphor to his life--in the human "race" he will always be behind, and his attempts to become a winner, or even a part of the human 'race' are trampled on (quite literally, as Hitchcock depicts Bruno as being trampled by those horses at the end of the film.)
Its no coincidence, btw, that years later a Bway show (which later became a film), entitled "The Boys in the Band", and its sequel "And the Band Played On", was entitled such (a story which depicts the loneliness/isolation of being gay in the 1960s--"show me a happy homosexual, and I'll show you a gay corpse")--this was the song which was played, and sung by Miriam and her two friends, while they rode the Carousel…
While homosexuality in film, in and of itself, was censored through most of the early to mid 20th century, most, if not all the characters who appear to be gay during that time were not only depicted as crazy and sinister, but were either killed or committed suicide--i.e. Bruno in Strangers on A Train, Plato in Rebel Without a Cause, Caged, The Gay Divorcee, Cruising, The Fan, Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Detective….the list goes on an on….
"The Boys in the Band", and its sequel "And the Band Played On"
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That would be news to the respective writers Mart Crowley and Randy Shilts since one has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
I don't think that was what Hitch had in mind but it can come across that way. Being gay was considered a mental illness at the time.
You have Granger's role in Rope where 2 gay men commit murder. So there is a tie in there. Rope is also a Hitchcock film but that is loosely, very loosely based on the Leopold and Loeb murder. They were also gay.