Date: Saturday, 26 June 2004 10:33 (UTC)
Ben Hur is quite an interesting illustration, with the gay subtext included in it by Gore Vidal (at least if you believe his account of matters, rather than Charlton Heston's). I suuspect that sich themes do permeate Western writing in so far as they were present in various forms of classical writing (the Iliad in particular) and then later sublimated into more acceptable variants. I must admit to not having seen Troy, largely because of a largely negative reaction to Gladiator (though Derek Jacobi was as good as ever in it).

I certainly don't mean to decry Dracula (which I would rate more highly than Jekyll and Hyde, to take one example); but I do think it works because the sum is greater than the parts.
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