I don't remember that in Pusher at all... might be me though. Valhalla Rising yeah. Mads Mikkelson in both but totally changed.nicolas winding refn? The pusher trilogy I seem to remember had a lot of body in it. Just following those geezers around. And that weird one he did which I really liked, valhalla rising. Very weird and patchy filmmaker really.
these are the same ones I've seen and I would agreeI've seen Bronson, Valhalla Rising, Drive and Only God Forgives and I dunno that I'd class any of them as homoerotic
I had no clue it was her until seeing it mentioned somewhere months after I'd seen the film.Kristin Scott Thomas (great against type performance btw)
He's Serbian I think.With pusher films, it's been ages since I watched them, but just the way the camera is employed, all those shots of them walking and running in real time, plus the violent scenes. Maybe due a rewatch, I enjoyed those films at the time, I seem to recall a well characterised buff also over the top turkish (?) drug boss.
Bleeder is a very odd film in my memory. Also surreal to watch after Pusher cos it's got virtually the same cast but with their roles all changed round - for example I think the terrifying Serbian drug lord is now a mild mannered shopkeeper or something. The film itself, I seem to recall, is about some kind of plot to infect someone with HIV using blood stolen from an infected homeless man. Or something. I remember it as a bit of a mess - whereas I love the focused madness of the Pusher ones.Are Bleeder and Fear X any good?
I agree. There has to be the possibility of non-homoerotic masculinity.in re masculinity and homoeroticism, obviously there's overlap but they shouldn't be conflated
In TOTDY you have extended scenes of the bad guy wearing just tight pants exercising all sweaty and glistening and then (I think this is the right order) goes out and whips his prisoner who is also stripped down and tied to a post.the camera lingering lovingly over a shirtless, oiled-up Swayze doing kata in Roadhouse
none of Refn's films have anything like that