#the scene with the smooth dancing before helen mirren walks in?? scene of all time wtf?! any other movie and that'd be considered flirting
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nero-neptune · 1 year ago
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finally got around to watching that 1985 movie "white nights" and, not to be the gay person making everything a "gay thing", but like. almost every scene with with the two male leads is Strikingly sexually charged, Especially the ones when they're both dancing (and it's a movie about Dancing, so this just keeps happening). yeah, it's the 80s, but you can Feel the insane chemistry through the screen. the long drawn-out eye contact? the teasing remarks? nikolai Constantly checking raymond out? was it all a fun creative decision? like, was All That on purpose or...?? am i supposed to believe that they're just "good friends"?? lmao???
this is the Very Last Shot of the movie. it's not even the first time in the movie they look at each other Like That. (they both have female love interests btw):
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anyway. definitely an 80s cold war movie, i'll tell you that!
#i didn't even choose to watch this movie bc of any alleged gay vibes lmao. nothing like that ever crossed my radar#i just thought the dancing looked really cool in a gifset and wanted to learn more for myself#only to discover that they Stay gazing into each other's eyes#that said- imo nikolai was Way more into raymond than raymond was into nikolai given raymond Loves his wife!!!#not to say that nikolai didn't still love the woman played by helen mirren. but that relationship was already done#the scene with the smooth dancing before helen mirren walks in?? scene of all time wtf?! any other movie and that'd be considered flirting#so yeah. bisexuals fighting.....communism??? through the power of ...????Dance!??!? somehow???????#like yeah i love it when plots get silly with it (who doesn't) but What????#anyway. i hope raymond and his wife and his boyfriend (he's got two hands) went on to live a cute 80s life wherever the hell they went#also like duh it's an american cold war Propaganda movie. but while they make sure to talk about how terrible the soviet union is#they don't uh. really do much to refute the stuff raymond said about hating america. they really don't bother revisiting Any of that#it goes 'yeah okay we (america) 'did' some bad shit (vietnam war and racism). but get this: in america you can be Free!' *mic drop*#and then they just. don't expand any further on that. crazy writing!#the politics here are like Aggressively neutral (which is funny for an 80s cold war movie). but the choreography was a 100 out of 10!!!#white nights#rambles
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