tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338557.post6771364413822577219..comments2023-08-18T04:37:47.001-04:00Comments on Byzantium's Shores: chronicling the misadventures of an overalls-clad hippie: "I like to think you killed a man. It's the romantic in me."Kelly Sedingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10704114189919711467noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338557.post-81586673917271154062009-11-04T14:23:18.932-05:002009-11-04T14:23:18.932-05:00Funny. I always wondered if perhaps both Louis an...Funny. I always wondered if perhaps both Louis and Rick were gay. Especially after the last minute of the film when they discuss going to some spa in the desert together and we hear the famous words, "Louis, I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338557.post-15704473488070797142009-04-02T15:42:00.000-04:002009-04-02T15:42:00.000-04:00Man, I haven't watched it since I got married, and...Man, I haven't watched it since I got married, and that'll be a decade next month. Must rectify.Roger Owen Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05298172138307632062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338557.post-54491794177305553802009-04-01T01:27:00.000-04:002009-04-01T01:27:00.000-04:00Ah, my very favorite movie next to the original St...Ah, my very favorite movie next to the original <I>Star Wars</I>; I find it endlessly enjoyable.<BR/><BR/>Re: the temporal setting of the movie and Laszlo's reason for going to America, I've always assumed (like you) that the story takes place in the week before Pearl Harbor and that Laszlo intends to somehow persuade FDR to enter the war or at least increase the flow of aid to Britain and the various resistance groups. Since the Pearl Harbor attack and America's entrance into the war will likely happen before he and Ilsa can reach U.S. shores (given the slowness of transportation at that time), his mission is rendered null and void, and Rick and Ilsa's sacrifice is all the more noble because it was essentially for nothing.<BR/><BR/>As for Louis being gay, no way. Not that there's anything wrong with it, as Seinfeld would say, but it bugs me that we're now supposed to read any close relationship between men as homosexual. Rick and Louis, and Rick and Sam as well, are <I>friends</I> who share a deep affection for one another but without any kind of sexual element that I can see. <BR/><BR/>Sheesh.jasonhttp://www.jasonbennion.comnoreply@blogger.com