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| Figure 1.1: Tango and Cash [Blu-Ray] Cover Source: Amazon.com |
In this past week’s
lecture, Professor Michael Petit explained what is denoted within the
conception of homoeroticism: it describes a construction of emotion which
encapsulates individuals within the same realm of sexuality, though it is in
defiance of homosexuality because instances of intercourse do not materialize
(Lecture: 5 Nov. 2013). The idea of the bromance was then referenced to constitute
Professor Petit’s example (ibid), and the most interesting aspect of this discourse
in my opinion was the changing outlook it dictated to me in relation to the
comical term. Familiar with the term “bromance,” I simply equated it with men
who betray an incredible bond with one another. I was a member of my cousin’s
bridal party a few weeks ago, and his best man was another cousin of mine, and
throughout their lives, they have shared an enjoyment of sports together,
worked in the construction business with one another, and taken part in the
same social events. Prior to Professor Petit’s lecture, the situation of my two
cousins would indeed have been the perfect constitutive illustration of the
bromance. The inclusion, however, of the explanation whereby the individuals encapsulated
in such a relationship disregard engagement that is defined sexually seemingly
allows for the sexual to infiltrate the bromance (ibid), though the degree may
not be significant. I think this is because I read the indifference towards
sexual engagement in Petit’s definition as perhaps reserving an image of it
nonetheless within the confines of the bromance (ibid). Thus, in the commercial
for the film Tango and Cash (1989)
documented in lecture, Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell are simultaneously
participating in a facility shower while failing to bear clothes and upon the
latter character’s manoeuvring in a hunched positioning, the former leaves
little ambiguity in his uncomfortable feeling (Youtube: Tango & Cash, Trailer (1989)). When Kurt Russell humorously
suggests that Stallone relinquish such a view of himself whereby the situation
necessitates sexual attachment in his direction, the atmosphere of sexuality
cannot be denied (ibid, Professor Petit Lecture: 5 Nov. 2013).
Works Cited
Petit, Michael. "Queer Analysis." The University of Toronto at Scarborough. The University
of Toronto at Scarborough, Scarborough, ON. 5 Oct 2013. Lecture.
Tango and Cash [Blu-Ray] Cover. Warner Home Video, Amazon.com. Web. 10 Nov. 2013.
Oldtrailer09. Tango & Cash, Trailer (1989). Online video clip. YouTube. Youtube, 16 July 2008.
Web. 10 Nov. 2013.
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