The poster in Sam's room??!!
I laughed when I saw the sexy Rob Lowe poster on his closet door lol.
shareYeah, that's pretty f'd up right there. No heterosexual boy would have that in his room.
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
Sam probably had a Boy George poster as well. No wonder the Frog brothers thought he was pretty fruity.
shareI think that's the point!
Yeah, that's pretty f'd up right there. No heterosexual boy would have that in his room.
Pretty sure Sam is meant to be gay. Not sure why it's so "f'd up." Seeing as though not every boy in the world is heterosexual and all. But I'm happy the poster has rocked your hetero-normative world view. It needs to be rocked by the sounds of it. share
Just how did you infer his orientation?
The poster being on the closet is pretty humerous,because it could be code for multiple things- even a dig at the heartthrob himself, not to mention Cory haim , who adorned the walls of my older sisters bedroom .
What's the problem with inferring he is gay? There's nothing to infer that he definitely isn't gay either is there? I'm comfortable with watching Sam as a gay character. There are enough hints to support this theory (the poster, aswell as the digs at his flamboyant wardrobe, the fact that Joel Schumacher is gay also doesn't hurt the theory).
If you want to see those things as just humorous code for something other than him being gay, (coz it obviously bothers you that he could be gay) That's up to you. The film is definitely leaving it up to the viewer to decide either way.
But for me, the film is telling me that Sam is a gay character. Which only makes the film cooler in my opinion.
I have no idea why you think I've got any kind of issue with Sam being gay.
In fact,
I've been watching this film since its release and I've never , not even once, considered sams sexuality. It simply doesn't matter to the narrative or any thing else.
Not that there's anything wrong with that
The poster has NOTHING to do with his sexual orientation. The director had just directed Lowe in ST Elmos Fire before this one and he put the poster up as an in joke. This was not a secret gay undertone as a wink to other gays or whatever.
shareTotally agree with you robertmeiers. It was a joke, watch the commentary and it explains it all.
shareYeah but that's an external explanation which cannot be used as an in movie disclaimer.
It's a bit like how I've quite successfully argued that the "That never happened to the other fella" line in OHMSS allows the within film canon interpretation that this is literally "another fella" to exist and therefore James Bond acts as a code name within the films.
The fact that the director / screenwriter's original intention may have been simply to serve up a little joke does not alter that.
Ol' Joel was probably grooming Corey Haim and then turned him after a late night hollywood "party" much the same way vampires turn a human.
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