Taste and Morals – Oysters and Snails
Hollywood and homosexuals, it’s like chocolate chip cookies and milk – only sometimes you drop the cookie in the milk and it becomes a soggy mess. Over the years Hollywood has portrayed gay men as sissies, lesbians as the perfect turn-on for the straight man, bisexuals as psychopathic killers and transgender people as the brunt of the jokes or life of the party. It has also portrayed us in more positive lights, usually in lower budget films, but still in a positive light (i.e. Milk, Boys Don’t Cry, Kinky Boots, etc.) Sometimes, we are the moral heroes rather than the deceitful “faggots.”
Today, I stumbled upon a clip from the 1960 film, Spartacus. The film, as you may know, was riddled with innuendo, but perhaps the most profound and enlightening scene was deleted by the powers that be. Well, thanks to the internet, the deleted scene is readily available. In it, Spartacus asks two questions of his servant: (1) Do you like snails; to which the servant replies that he does, and (2) Do you like oysters; to which the servant replies he doesn’t. Spartacus proceeds by asking if either snails or oysters are immoral. Obviously, the servant feels neither are immoral and Spartacus uses the opportunity to illustrate that it’s a matter of taste, not morality whether one likes snails or one likes oysters; Spartacus likes both.
Here’s the clip:
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That isn't Spartacus who asks questions of the slave. It is Crassus, the film's villain.
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