Was this movie specifically made for a gay audience?

Interesting to say the least! My partner and I stumbled across this and were dumbfounded. I'm a big movie buff and especially familiar with most gay-oriented films but had never come across this. My partner wanted to know who did the costumes (it was the director himself). I had to get more information about it! Too funny!

I think anybody watching can get a nice eyeful. For me, some of the women in this film were simply gorgeous. Which brings me to Candice Bergen - was she ever more beautiful than in this flick? She was just amazing.

No blah, blah, blah!

I was an extra on this movie, aged 18.

This gay point has some truth.

Yes Michael Cacoyannis who was writing and directing it (and designed our very silly, futuristic, brightly coloured costumes), trying to cash in on the success of his "Zorba the Greek" was gay. Also so was Arthur Mitchell who was our choreographer. Anyway we all had fun. The day I arrived, all the extras went on strike for proper payment and somewhere to sleep. After that we slept in the local school. Lots of drugs and alcohol. Lots.

Mikis Theodorakis, who was writing the music for the film, only visited the location once while i was there. The Colonels were in power at the time. Everyone was very aware that Theodorakis was under strict surveillance as a known Communist.

Another post here remarks on how beautiful Candace Bergen was at the time. True! And she was a lovely, friendly person to us extras.

The big irony was that the film was all about an influx of tourists ruining an unspoiled Greek fishing village. We were filming in a real unspoiled fishing village (Galaxidi, near Delphi), it could then only be reached by boat. And day by day, we saw the place changing. For the worse. We were changing it. Eventually the money earned by the village from the film was spent on building an access road to the village and that was the end. Sad.

It was clear there was tension between Cocoyannis and his financiers in Athens. After we wrapped, extra scenes were shot in a studio in Athens. They stick out like a sore thumb. The final film is a mess. Dreadful.

While this movie could certainly have found a gay audience, making a movie "specifically" for the enjoyment and appreciation of gay people would never have entered the minds of any film studio executive. As the above extra mentions, the director being gay most likely is the reason for what made it onto the screen. But sadly, pre-Stonewall, gay people were not respected enough to have been considered worth financing and making feature films for their tastes. :-(

Even without that, if the writer or director had really wanted to go for it, there would have been more evidence on the screen. Otherwise, if anyone said that this was definitely made for gay viewers, my response would be that someone should have told the actors, because they were not in on it!

"Well, for once the rich white man is in control!" C. M. Burns

This movie wasn't made for any audience. I'm attempting to watch it now, and what a steaming pile of 5hit.

I like this movie a lot, and no, I don't think it was made specifically for a gay audience. The whole gay thing was played for laughs just like everything else.

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The "coming out" part is a dead giveaway!