>>6120715I mentioned this discussing the Crow remake film last qtg, in a climactic fight scene, you have two men the hero protagonist vs nemesis villain, wrestling, strangling and choking each other, grunting and sweating grr arggh grrrarrgh maybe stabbing / penetrating each other with... "swords" this will inevitably provoke associations with THE GAY it will look comical, the subtext imagery will just be irresistibly unfortunate and ridiculous. How to avoid the inevitable insinuations...?
1/ The villain is a woman.
Easy. But then you might have the unsightly spectacle of the hero abusing / physically brawling with a girl. hmmm
2/ Deflect the gay, with a damsel in distress!
Still two men locked in a mortal battle to the very death, except, they fight over a WOMAN, periodically you must cut your game-setting authorial perspective to her writhing imploringly and helplessly to remind the audience that the hero and villain are not wrestling and shooting or stabbing each other in intimate killing lust over their taut and gleaming muscular male bodies, but for this random sexual woman instead
3/ Use environmental damage to avoid contact with the gay
The villain nemesis is male, but cannot be defeated with physical contact (no close-quarters homosexual wrestling penetration visual metaphors). Maybe he is in a helicopter / secluded away in an.other location, you end the boss battle by climactically shooting down / wrecking a peripheral environmental feature (eg Max Payne 1 skyscraper mast demolition / helicopter scene, Max Payne 2 shooting out the bolts on the mansion ceiling etc). Also eg James Bond films, drop the villain into his own shark tank etc. Adjust the climactic act, alter the visual imagery to avoid close contact with the gay
4/ If you absolutely MUST have vigorous gay male-on-male fighting wrestling penetrating stabbing, consider this: have the final "coup-de-grace" delivered by a woman.
Arguably the least robust and defensible anti-homosexual method. Your hero is brawling with his mortal enemy, both of them have been shot a few times and bleeding, the villain drew a hidden knife, slashed the hero a few times, but the hero disarms him, only for the craven villain to fling sand in his eyes, now he has the hero helplessly pinned on the floor, a chain wrapped around his neck asphyxiating him... it is the moment of maximum peril, suspense, climax... BANG a random girl turns up, shoots the villain dead in the head! This is what you get for thinking naughty obscene gay thoughts!
5/ Variant of 4/ above could be if a girl and a bloke must team up to take down the evil bossfight villain together. Remember that if the girl is dressed in anything other than a bikini (or has a masculine appearance) you still risk insinuating comparisons with the gay
These are just five methods of staging the "climactic male-on-male ending fight" that avoid embarrassing comparisons to homosexual overtures. If you know of any others, please recommend!
