09-01-2013, 08:50 PM
(09-01-2013, 01:02 PM)Diana Wrote: How strange to mention a homoerotic angle. I'm female, so perhaps I don't count in this case, but I never even noticed anything like that. I'm still not sure what this is referring to.
When Powder has that long stare at the other dude in the bathroom...the way it was shot (from my perspective) was almost as if to show that Powder was taken by surprise by the beauty of the male physical form, but not necessarily in an erotic sense. A male watching the movie might see it that way, and a female might not. It's verrrry subtle...plus the whole time watching the movie, I was having much fun trying to guess at what such a hyper-intelligent being might be thinking during certain shots where he is silent.
Personally, I find that many times (especially at work) people highly misread my facial expressions, and give me reactions that throw ME off! lol. So In looking at the character of Powder, it was really fun to imagine him thinking in that scene something like... "My god, that physical form could easily be used to kill or maim if he set his mind to it...such power! I could never make friends with a mind like his!" ....yet if you don't try to think the way that character probably was thinking, you'll definitely have a reaction like the "bully" character who steps up and starts calling him gay and then threatens him, lol.