Don’t let the name of the film confuse you: Jack & Diane is about “two teenage girls [who] meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Diane’s charming innocence quickly begins to open Jack’s tough skinned heart. But, when Jack discovers that Diane is leaving the country in a week she tries to push her away. Diane must struggle to keep their love alive while hiding the secret that her newly awakened sexual desire is giving her werewolf-like visions.” Originally starring Ellen Page and Olivia Thirlby as Jack, and then the Juno actress bumped for Allison Pill, and then Pill leaving and Atonement‘s Juno Temple coming in, this lesbian vampire flick just might one day see the light or day. Or rather, the darkness of night. See? Not all vampire flicks skew male homoerotic. [Bloody Disgusting] [Indie Movies Online]
jason
Vampire movies have a history of exploiting lesbians. It’s tacky. It’s done to titillate sleazy straight guys who don’t give a rat’s behind about gay rights. The women who perform these roles are vulgar and contributing to the exploitation.
gomez
jason, your bitter anti-lesbian spiel is tedious. per usual.
jason
I’m not anti-lesbian at all. I’m against women who claim to be bisexual or lesbian simply for the purpose of pleasing a sleazy third party, usually a strictly heterosexual, gay-bashing male. I don’t like women who appeal to men who crap on our rights.
If that grates, so be it. These women don’t have the right to wrap their sleazy pandering in the cloak of our noble movement.
gomez
“these women” have every right to behave sexually however they want to. bisexual, bi-curious, full-on lesbian or whatever. you have no right to demand how they conduct their sexuality. just because a lot of men get off on girl/girl action does not make it “sleazy”. and your generalization that most of the guys who like it are gay-bashers is not true. there are plent of gay-sympathetic guys and biseuxal guys who like it. and in this case, it’s called acting in a movie. big fuckin deal. if it were 2 guys, you’d love it. so i suppose there should be no lesbian depictions in movies or else the lesbo-loving men will get all gay-bashy? or if there are, they only should be the butch dykes?
you’re never going to stop it. you’ll just rant and rave until your dying breath. get over it, jealous bitter one.
jeezus, you’re as bad as the self-righteous religious moralizers
DeAnimator
It’s sleazy when women are reduced to mere objects there for a man’s aesthetic and sexual pleasure.
Getting off on same sex attraction when you are not the sex involved is ridiculous and offensive. It means you have to distance yourself from their identity (since you will never actually get with someone who is gay if you aren’t). Plus, making two women get together without any sort of actual attachment or discussion of their identity or personality has been used for a long ass time… especially in Hollywood so that heterosexual men don’t have to feel threatened by the fact that there are some women out there who just don’t like dick. This is incomprehensible to them, so such women have to be made accessible to them.
Heterosexual women do it too with gay men- though not nearly as much as over-privileged, heterosexual men. It’s disgusting.
And honestly, every heterosexual male or female I’ve met whose been really into same sex attraction has been a sleazy bag of moldy jizz.
People aren’t sexual objects. They’re, well, they’re friggin people.
Louie
Um, this isn’t a vampire film. Werewolves and vampires are very different? Have the writers never seen Underworld?
Also, it’s not supposed to be literally. The werewolf imagery is, from what I’ve heard, about her coming of age and struggling with her identity. It’s an interesting analogy to use but it’s fresh and interesting so I’ll go with it.
One more thing: Men, gay or straight, should probably stay out of this story. It doesn’t look like it has anything to do with you!
gomez
@deanimator. of course, people are objects of desire. always will be. your corny lefty victorian shtick is square and stale.
@louie. why the hell should men stay out of this story? to satisfy your pretentious condescending provincial notions of “cultural ownership”? sorry, charlie.
DeAnimator
Haha. Lefty Victorian shtick?
Thanks for the laugh, dipshit.
gomez
that’s it’s exactly what it is. a new lefty version of promoting repressed victorian sexuality