#The Last of Sheila

[ghoulfool]

Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins being cute behind the scenes of The Last of Sheila (1973) :] 

[ennaih]

Not Every Film I Watch In 2024

7. The Last Of Sheila (1973)

[markcoughman]

My love language is murdering people and framing them for my crimes.

[nine-frames]

The Last of Sheila, 1973

Dir. Herbert Ross | Writ. Anthony Perkins & Stephen Sondheim | DOP Gerry Turpin

[trumanjo]

favorite films i watched in 2024

I watched over 100 movies in 2024, these were my favorites:

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014)

Secretary(2002)

Strangers on a Train(1951)

Longlegs(2024)

Thelma(2024)

The Last of Shelia(1973)

[sirbogarde]

Victim, The Last of Sheila and Strangers on a Train all on TCM tomorrow. Happy Pride month.

[lisamarie-vee]

[sondheims-hat]

1973: Photoplay magazine.

[countesspetofi]

THE LAST OF SHEILA (1973)

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[forever70s]

Ian McShane in "The Last of Sheila" (1974)

[l3fool]

The Last of Sheila, Glass Onion & homosexuality

Glass Onion had a lot of nods to The Last of Sheila as Ryan Johnson the director said so, The Last of Sheila was wrote by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim (who also had a cameo in the Glass Onion) who both are gay af

so I had thoughts about this..

In The Last of Sheila the 'homosexual' character was the most intelligent person on the board able to win the games quickly and ended up being the the villain. In the Glass Onion the homosexual character is also the most intelligent person but he is a detective and the hero of the story.

In The Last of Sheila Mr.H's homosexual past is a secret and is mentioned as a possible motive for him to kill someone in order to keep it a secret. In the Glass Onion, Benoit Blanc's homosexuality is not really part of the plot, not something deviant, not something to shock, not something to be anything but part of his personal life which the film doesn't spend a lot of time dueling upon.

Both movies are about money and it's corruption but in The Last of Sheila, Mr.H made a decision to be corrupted and have personal security by becoming a millionaire while Blanc's decision is to fight corrupted people and put himself in danger for the security of others.

It's just interesting that how society's change towards a 'less' hostile environment for gay people, lead to the change of what roles gay characters can have in a mystery story..

from the villain to the hero.

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[godlessondheimite]

[proverbialschoolmarm]

[artistisdead]

glass onion opening with a sequence akin to the last of sheila where a group of friends called each other up to inquire abt something they received from a mutual friend of theirs then immediately after presents a scene that features sondheim playing among us? then after that, it followed a scene where the friends got together at a port? and those lil hidden in plain sight things littered all over the film you'll only notice during a fucking lengthy explanation/reveal? rian you brilliant sun of a gun alsoooo add the fact that sondheim used to host elaborate scavenger hunts at his house, yeah this film isn't just the last of sheila-inspired: miles is somehow also a 'sondheim as a brilliant game host' wannabe