Spalko's swordplay

StoneTriple said:

But for a person to state matter-of-factly that their interpretation is valid - without knowing the author's intent - comes across as arrogant.

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Who has done this? Or are you speaking generally?

BlackSleep said:

Who has done this? Or are you speaking generally?

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Speaking generally. Someone mentioned a professor they had that told them that. It's a few posts back.

Michael24 said:

It took it to be a metal sword being pulled against a magnetized crate.

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Yeah, and I'm usually the one to pour over these innuendos.

I guess part of the problem is that I've seen much more obvious phallic references in films before...including the great one used near the ending of Haute Tension, involving

a lesbian/bisexual villain with a power tool held out from her pelvis towards another woman's head

, that the rapier to the coffin bit in Kingdom seemed more coincidental to me.

StoneTriple said:

Speaking generally. Someone mentioned a professor they had that told them that. It's a few posts back.

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It was I.

I did mention that this theory is especially true if many people have the same reaction.

Since most of the people I know, and quite a few people on this board took the sword joke to be phallic in nature, I'd say the interpretation is valid regardless of whether it was intended that way.

And I also mentioned that this is a practice in literature. But I believe movies are an extension of that medium.

BlackSleep said:

yeah i figured it was a.) because she was "excited" by the discovery of the mystery crate and b.) because she was the tough, rugged, manly leader of the Ruskies

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Further evidence of her androgynous nature.

Agent Spalko said:

Yeah, she is pretty masculine.

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So, she would be the butch to you as femme?