The jackal gay

Posted by BlackTsunami at PM. Newer Post Older Post Home. Of course that ludicrous notion dies out in a scene so ridiculous that you can't get mad at what happens. On two occasions when the police get too close, the Jackal hides out in the home of a stranger he has seduced; once with a wealthy woman and again with a gay man he meets in a bar.

The Jackal "penetrates" government security by seducing a gay civil servant. When a news report exposes the Jackal's identity, he kills Douglas. The Jackal, played by BruceWillis, takes up with a gay man in order to hide out. When the man looks at the news and.

What makes both movies so interesting is how the assassin covers his identity, moving from person to person and murdering whomever to keep said identity secret. In the original movie, the assassin's target was French president Charles de Gaulle. The remake is viciously direct when it comes to this.

But in this remake, we are in the , he went to a gay bar, meet the guy, and in the s people kiss a little faster. The movie drops the Schulberg identity and shifts this scene to a Turkish bath. Tune it next Friday. When the gay businessman joins The Jackal at his house later, he finds him no longer flirtatious and rather cold which throws him off completely.

One could almost look at it as a parody of the many times in the movies where they create a gay character, only to kill him off: Next week - Something nice and foreign that's just begging for an American remake. I don’t remember hearing of THE DAY OF THE JACKAL (Fred Zinnemann, ) spoken of in relation to gay representation but here is the sauna pick-up scene, repeated in the current tv version to close the latest episode, but here filmed more discreetly so that viewers who don’t want to know don’t need to notice.

Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom. Both movies are about an unnamed assassin paid gobs of money to kill a high ranking official. In both movies, he takes up with a gay man, making sure to dispose of the man when he no longer needs him. The Jackal, masquerading as a gay man, dates Douglas, a man he encountered earlier in a bar; unbeknownst to Douglas, he uses his garage to store his machine gun.

Per Lundqvist, the Jackal's other disguise, was a Danish clergyman in the novel, not a school teacher. I read that Bruce Willis paid out of his own pocket to have the scene where the gay character was killed to make it more clear that he did it because the guy had seen the news report, not because of his sexuality.

There is a small hint that the two had sex, seeing that the gay man thinks that they are beginning a relationship. In the novel the Jackal picks up Jules Bernard at a gay bar while disguised as Marty Schulberg, an American college student. In the remake, it was the First Lady.

For me this makes sense, as in the movie Willis kills Jack Black for trying to blackmail him and the fact that he's Jack Black Post a Comment. The Jackal is a remake of a movie entitled The Day of the Jackal. When he finally disposes of the poor man, the director makes the whole thing look like a big joke.

I'm not telling you what it is. I would have posted it this week but I had forgotten about it until this post was half written. Kills a woman too, The Jackal was not gay.