Diary entries forRed River
Red River
In the Boxxd '26 - Semana #13: Película Western.
Red River
Film #3 of August 2017 Scavenger Hunt Task #18: Watch a film featured in The Celluloid Closet PREFERABLY LGBTQ+ RELATED. This is my 5th attempt to watch Red River. For some reason, this film hasn't clicked with me, mainly in part due to it being a western. Finally, I actually sat down and put forth the effort to make it through one sitting. While it may not be explicitly LGBTQ+ related, it still is homoerotic in nature. Westerns are all about tough men being together, living together, doing daily things together, with homoerotic subtext being present in many scenes. Even with this subtext, I still couldn't escape the fact that this was a western. For some reason, this genre is difficult for me to get invested in. The wild west is something that is very interesting, but for some reason I am unable to connect to a majority of the films that I have seen so far. Red River is a fine film, it had some really interesting parts but just seemed to drag on for way too long in certain scenes. It's an entertaining film that I can understand as to why it is a popular western, I just am not a huge fan of the film itself. I do need to get into more westerns, maybe starting out with more well-known westerns before getting into these westerns.
Red River
“You love him, don’t you?” How easy it is to hurt, and be hurt, by the ones we love, the ones who know us best. RED RIVER is undeniably a western, but its story is not one of cowboys, or marshals, or Native Americans. But of a brow beaten men trying to make a place for themselves in world, the stubbornness of their pride, of how it leads them to fail one another. In many ways, the film reminds me of There Will Be Blood, but it is slightly less cynical (and more sentimental) in its telling of the story of fathers and sons loving one another, and, as must always happen, sons outgrowing their fathers, becoming a person in their own right. The old guard must past the torch, even if reluctantly so. It’s the only way those who come after can carve brave, new paths forward for themselves. Starting to think Howard Hawks might be one of my favorite old Hollywood directors. As soon as my western era is over, I’m going to dig into the rest of his filmography.
Red River
Gay erotica
