and in the end it's love

[schmerica]

I don't know if you all know this already or what, but Hard Core Logo is really fucked up.

Hee.

This movie always makes me want fic, and then I remember that I actually find the vast majority of HCL fiction to be completely unsatisfying, even from writers I really like.

This movie also raises an interesting philosophical question, of course, with unreliable narrators and canon (namely, how should it be taken?), given the context of the central homoerotic moment in the film and how it's presented, and then how it's generally completely unquestioned by fandom. (Wow, that sentence sounds much more pretentious when I'm trying to present it in a spoilerfree way.) ETA: There may be spoilers in the comments, of course.

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[grey853.livejournal.com]

HARD CORE LOGO is one of my favorite films on so many levels. The acting, the narrative, the dialogue, the characters, they all reel the viewer in until the shocking ending, which I would normally hate, but realized it's the only thing that fit this film and the characters. What makes it an even more powerful ending is that originally, that wasn't what was written. It was Hugh Dillon who convinced them that it was the only way to go and still stick with the integrity of the character. Joe lost everything. Period.

I've lost count of the number of times I've watched the movie and each time I watch, I see something I didn't notice the time before, a look, a twitch, something that adds to the multilevel power punch it delivers.

As for the fanfiction, I can't think of any that really delivers what I want with Joe/Billy. I have read a crossover with DS, please don't ask the title, where Billy meets up with Fraser and Fraser realizes through his relationship with Billy that he loves Ray. And there was a lovely crossover with TALES OF THE CITY where Billy meets up with the PG character and they have a relationship. That was also good.

I've yet to read a long, well-developed story with Joe/Billy, and there's probably a good reason for that, one being it'd have to be a story told before the movie. Backstories are much harder to do sometimes.