cinyma:

Gilda (1946)

missavagardner:

Anonymous asked: Gilda (Gilda) or Holly Golightly (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)

mendingthewall:

Gilda – written by a woman, starring a woman, produced by a woman – suggests that women know better than men what men are looking at when men look at women. They know that such looking – a function of blindness – is not seeing. In effect, Rita Hayworth exists fantastically for Macready and Ford within the so-called “male gaze”. She is created by their looking, a form of ideological hypnosis, or blindness, or stupidity, perhaps crucial to the perpetuation of human society as it presently exists. In the movie, the male gaze keeps two men fixated on a woman rather than each other. Outside the movie, in real life, Rita Hayworth was the fixation of millions of men in the armed services, their favorite “pinup girl”. An erotic icon, she kept our boys straight.

From The Zipper by Leonard Michaels

I posted this before on Facebook, and none of my friends got it…as in its signifigance I guess. One replied, “huh?”.

Silly folks!