But after paying massively for the big clear Plexi slab, Kubrick decided it didn’t look right-so production designer Tony Masters suggested the featureless black one, which Kubrick approved. The mysterious black monolith began as a translucent Plexiglas tetrahedron, which ultimately assumed a monolith shape because Plexiglas cools better that way. Some of the film’s most iconic features were decided during production for purely practical reasons. (Credit: Mary Evans/MGM/Polaris/Stanley Kubrick/Ronald Grant/Everett) 4. But Kubrick had fled the scene, causing production to grind to a halt for several days.Īctor Keir Dullea reflected in the lens of the HAL-9000 supercomputer.
When he actually did pass out, Weston, who’d been a mercenary in South Africa, took a minute to recover and then set off to find the director and teach him a lesson-a story originating from Weston himself. In another incident, Kubrick refused to let Weston punch holes in the back of his space helmet, which meant the stuntman was perpetually on the verge of blacking out from carbon-dioxide poisoning as he engaged in complicated maneuvers while hanging high above the camera. This almost resulted in a serious accident when individual strands of Weston’s sole cable broke under his weight. An Angry Stuntman Chased Kubrick off the Setĭuring production, Kubrick at first refused to let spacewalking stuntman Bill Weston wear a second cable for safety, although he was 30 feet above a hard concrete studio floor. (Credit: Mary Evans/MGM/Ronald Grant/Everett) 3.
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Its also meant to be a bit meta when Nicco puts up the “Edge of Seventeen” movie poster in his mother’s video store, seeing as how she was the mother in that film as well.A behind-the-scenes shot of Stanley Kubrick on set. Her character as the mother is once again playing the piano in a sombre fashion, but when her son walks in and comes out to her, instead of reacting the way she did in “Edge of Seventeen”, she says “Duh! What took you so long!” and proves to be the most supportive, pro-gay mother on earth. This scene was then spoofed in “Another Gay Movie”.
There is a scene in “Edge of Seventeen” where she is playing the piano in a very sombre way and that is when she and her son have “the conversation” and she reveals a tragic lack of acceptance of his coming out. Stephanie McVay’s character in “Another Gay Movie” is nearly the polar opposite of her character in “Edge of Seventeen” when it comes to parental acceptance of their gay child. Nicco’s Mom was portrayed by Stephanie McVay who played the main character’s mother in the great but angsty 1998 gay coming of age and coming out film “Edge of Seventeen” (incidentally, Andersen Gabrych who plays Tyler “double popped polo boy”, was also in “Edge of Seventeen” as Rod, the love interest, and is featured on a poster that Nicco hangs up). A bit of back story and a little meta humor:
One of my favorite characters in the film. So, in order to right such tragic wrong, I decided to give Another Gay Movie a much-belated viewing, to see what held up, what didn’t, and what had me wishing it was 2006 again… I really didn’t have time for LGBTQIA+ cinema back then. My only relief in life up to that point was waiting until my parents went to bed so I could dial-up our AOL internet and watch some, ahem, adult films.
I know, I’m a terrible gay! But to be fair, I was a deeply closeted teen living in Montana when it was first released. It ruined our relationship.įull disclosure, prior to writing this, I had never seen Another Gay Movie. Think of it as American Pie, but way gayer. Released in 2006, the movie follows four gay friends-Andy, Jarod, Nico and Griff–who, upon graduating high school, vow that they will all lose their “anal virginity” before their friend’s Labor Day party. Earlier this week, the cast of the cult classic Another Gay Movie reunited in Los Angeles for the film’s 15 th Anniversary.