Life is what happens when you are making other plans~ John Lennon
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind~Gandhi
The time is always right to do what is right~ Martin Luther King Jr.


Monday, November 5, 2012

Bent

Bent
Plot
-Max is a gay man sent to the Dachau concentration camp during World War II for being gay. He tries denying that he is homosexual and instead gets the yellow star, signifying that he is jewish instead of the dreaded pink triangle, which signifies homosexuality. While in camp, he falls for a fellow prisoner named Horst, who wears the pink triangle with pride and dignity






Cast
-Mick Jagger: Greta
-Clive Owen: Max
-Sir Ian McKellen: Uncle Freddie
-Jude Law: Stormtrooper
-Brian Webber: Rudy
-Lothaire Bluteau: Horst

Did You Know?
-In 1979, Sir Ian McKellen, who plays Uncle Freddie in the movie, starred in the original London West End production of the play, playing Max





-During the scene where Mick Jagger was required to sit on a trapeze and sing as his character's alter ego of Greta, it was said that he was slightly scared of being up high on a trapeze-like wire and singing

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