The Warrior's Husband
Dec. 28th, 2012 02:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stalkerbunnyIs a 1933 film I've never seen, and probably won't since it sounds rather like a potentially subversive idea with a frustrating misogynistic ending. From what I've gathered from plot descriptions, it seems to be a sort of Amazon fantasy gender-role flip story.
However, what does come out of this movie are some rather nice stills. Actually, I first encountered the movie when I bought the book Hollywood Portraits: Classic Stills 1929-41, which has one still, the rest I found online.
I apologise for the quality, but as the book is kind of gigantic I had to photograph the page. :')
Elissa Landi and Ernest Truex, with costumes designed by Earl Luick. I find it especially interesting how the elaborately curled hair and facial hair, along with the pose, was used to create a feminine effect...
(same characters in another still).
I also recall once going through a bunch of stills from the same era, and after a while getting a bit creeped out by the exact same poses again and again, especially how markedly passive and/or uninterested the women were.
So it's kind of interesting seeing it flipped, even if I don't have any deep thinky thoughts about it.
Katherine Hepburn with... some guy.
Though he at least doesn't emphatically look like he'd rather be somewhere else like women in the old stills usually do, since, you know, god forbid a woman should look like she ever wants to have sex or anything...!
And some more just because.
However, what does come out of this movie are some rather nice stills. Actually, I first encountered the movie when I bought the book Hollywood Portraits: Classic Stills 1929-41, which has one still, the rest I found online.
I apologise for the quality, but as the book is kind of gigantic I had to photograph the page. :')
Elissa Landi and Ernest Truex, with costumes designed by Earl Luick. I find it especially interesting how the elaborately curled hair and facial hair, along with the pose, was used to create a feminine effect...
(same characters in another still).
I also recall once going through a bunch of stills from the same era, and after a while getting a bit creeped out by the exact same poses again and again, especially how markedly passive and/or uninterested the women were.
So it's kind of interesting seeing it flipped, even if I don't have any deep thinky thoughts about it.
Katherine Hepburn with... some guy.
Though he at least doesn't emphatically look like he'd rather be somewhere else like women in the old stills usually do, since, you know, god forbid a woman should look like she ever wants to have sex or anything...!
And some more just because.
