OMG! It's almost my two year anniversary as a fic writer, too! EEEK! The parallells are becoming rather freaky!
Actually, writing Jeff/Johnny (Johnny Eager) slash would be quite appropriate. Most people agree that when Van Heflin won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing Jeff, he was the first actor portraying a gay character to do so. While, since this movie was made in the 40's, no one comes out and refers to Jeff as being gay in the film, it's pretty obvious that his devotion to Johnny (the title character) is something other than platonic. I, like you, wonder if gay viewers wrote, or at least dreamed up, fanfic of their own after seeing this movie. I'm sure they all saw what modern viewers do. And I'm pretty sure the director put it there on purpose!
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Date: 2006-05-02 01:45 pm (UTC)Actually, writing Jeff/Johnny (Johnny Eager) slash would be quite appropriate. Most people agree that when Van Heflin won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing Jeff, he was the first actor portraying a gay character to do so. While, since this movie was made in the 40's, no one comes out and refers to Jeff as being gay in the film, it's pretty obvious that his devotion to Johnny (the title character) is something other than platonic. I, like you, wonder if gay viewers wrote, or at least dreamed up, fanfic of their own after seeing this movie. I'm sure they all saw what modern viewers do. And I'm pretty sure the director put it there on purpose!
Gabrielle