#wings (1927)

[cametotheshowinsd]

I love you, it's ruining my life.

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT || April 19th, 2024

#taylor swift #tswiftedit #tswiftgif #the tortured poets department #ttpd #also tag #clara bow #wings 1927 #userelena #userleah #*merely based on the track titles* #okay I confess I just wanted to make a ttpd set and included Clara #my angel <3 #can't wait to cry to the song

[boydswan]

WINGS (1927) dir. William A. Wellman

#wings #wings 1927 #buddy rogers #richard arlen #classicfilmsource #mine #william a wellman #here am i queue me

[amostexcellentblog]

Finally watched Wings (1927) for the first time, and oh my, it really is that gay, it wasn't just that one kissing scene taken out of context.

The entire film turns on the relationship between the two men, progressing from romantic rivals to ride-or-die comrades under the duress of wartime. The ostensible female romantic lead is entirely unnecessary, tacked on at the behest of studio executives who wanted to boost box office. She appears in only a few scenes, does nothing to drive the main plot, and is absent from large portions of the film and at all the key moments. The actress, Clara Bow, knew the film was beneath her, once saying it was "a man's picture and I'm just the whipped cream on top of the pie."

I guess Top Gun did not, in fact, invent the military-pilot-rivals-to-friends-to-implied-lovers trope after all.

It's literally WWI Icemav. (Maybe an Ice-Lives AU where, freshly retired and bored out of his mind, Ice agrees to go to a museum exhibit with Bradley and Jake on the history of LGBTQ people in the military, where he stumbles on a picture of two unidentified WWI flying aces, standing close with their arms draped around each other in a way that could be friendly but somehow is more than that. Ice knows the pose and he becomes obsessed with finding out who they are.)

Using his contacts and military history knowledge he's eventually able to verify that the men are David Armstrong and Jack Powell. They came from the same town, but different social classes. Jack was impulsive and loved fast cars. David was more reserved. They were described as the closest of friends by their fellow soldiers. David died in the war, Jack returned home and married his childhood sweetheart, they had no children. When Jack died, he was buried next to David. That's all Ice can find, but it's enough. He sends his findings to the museum, then drives to the hanger just so he can hold Mav in his arms, but first he calls Bradley...

"You need to marry that boy."

"...I thought you didn't like him."

"I don't, but... But if he makes you happy then that... Jesus Bradley, you and Jake are the first ones, the first generation who can live your lives openly. Don't waste that chance, so many of us never got that, never even allowed ourselves to imagine what it would be like."

"Well, good news. I proposed a month ago and we've been trying to figure out how to tell you. We actually thought the museum exhibit might soften you up, but you got so fixated on that damn photo you forgot we were even there."

#it actually holds up very well #the effects and flying scenes are great #icemav #hangster #tom iceman kazansky #bradley rooster bradshaw #wings 1927

[veronica-rich]

In pretty gay movie history - Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers and Richard Arlen, "Wings," 1927. Also easily read as an OT3 with Clara Bow. Summary is: Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.

Mmmmkay. I have watched it. That is in fact about half the plot.

#wings 1927 #vintage gay #vintage OT3

[rocheroth]

The fact some people were worried Bow wouldn't look good in the movie Wings cause of her uniform "wasn't very attractive" while she looked like this is just insane

#clara bow #hollywood #old hollywood #silent film #vintage hollywood #it girl #wings 1927

[princesssarisa]

Another detail following up the Snow White post I just shared.

To audiences in 1937, I don't think a kiss on the lips would necessarily read as romantic and sensual.

It wouldn't have a decade earlier, at any rate. In the 1921 silent movie The Kid, Charlie Chaplin gives his 6-year-old adopted son a long kiss on the mouth when they reunite after being forcibly separated. And in the first film ever to win Best Picture, 1927's Wings, Buddy Rogers passionately kisses Richard Arlen's mouth as the latter is dying in his arms: while Tumblr loves to share GIFs of that death scene for its homoeroticism by modern standards, I'm sure that in its 1927 context, it was just meant to show strong friendship.

So when people say "The Prince should have just kissed the 'dead' Snow White's cheek or forehead, not her lips," I think that's a very modern viewpoint. It wouldn't have been seen as unchaste or unseemly in the first half of the 20th century.

#snow white and the seven dwarfs #disney #the kid 1921 #wings 1927 #kisses #cultural mores #snow white

[practicallygay]

Paramount Pictures really took the most homoerotic photos in 1927 after letting these two share an on-screen kiss, then proceeded to sell this film as a war buddy pic.

Amazing.

#wings 1927 #fellas is it gay to lock pinkies while our cigarettes touch? #heaven help me #there is no heterosexual explanation for this #gay cinema #jack powell #david armstrong #jack x david #silent film #queer media #charles rogers #richard arlen #clara bow #wings #classic film #bw film #screencaps #gay film #queer #gay #film

[crowdsink]

#wings #silent film #silent cinema #wings 1927

[borntofishforcedtowork]

I just wanna ask how the hell this was sold as a het love story movie. like a lot of war movies and books are homoerotic already but this is a whole new level of homoeroticism

#wings 1927

[literaryspinster]

Once again thinking about the staggering amount of yaoi that would exist about these two if Wings (1927) would have been released today. Fuck, if I found out that ladies were passing along analog fics and art in their social clubs back then that wouldn't surprise me one bit.

#wings 1927 #david armstrong #jack powell #mlm #silent film #this was so monumentally gay istg #bisexual icons

[emma-dennehy-presents]

I missed Public Domain Day yesterday (we got some good shit, like Wings and the rest of ACD Sherlock Holmes). This makes me remember though....ONE FUCKIN YEAR TILL THE MOUSE IS PUBLIC DOMAIN! Let's see you get out of this one, Disney, you slippery fucks.

#i wouldnt even be surprised if they did get out of it #im doing something with Steamboat Willie regardless #yes that is a threat #public domain #public domain day #disney #mickey mouse #steamboat willie #steamboat willie public domain 2024 #wings 1927 #sherlock holmes #arthur conan doyle

[not-so-amazing-art-by-me]

Clara Bow

Today I drew this lovely lady, which I *think* is actress Clara Bow. I'm not particularly happy with how it turned out, but it was fun to make nonetheless 😊😝. Btw, I used Photoshop for this piece. Hope you like it! 💗

#art #artwork #digital art #my art #my artwork #my art <3 #clara bow #wings 1927 #vintage #vintage photography #photoshop

[boydswan]

WINGS (1927) dir. William A. Wellman

#wings #wings 1927 #clara bow #buddy rogers #classicfilmsource #mine #William A. Wellman

[knightotoc]

DVD Christmas presents: 2 gay classics and 2 horrors

#suspiria 1977 #bringing up baby #wings 1927 #scream 1996 #christmas #physical media

[what-am-i-outside-my-google-tabs]

Still trying to understand if the french soldiers kissing the usamerican soldiers is a parody, an omage or a thing actually happened.

#movie watching #wings 1927

[ploridafanthers]

i still can't believe they made the actors fly the fucking planes

#wings 1927 #there was sufficient SFX technology at the time to *not* make them do that #but nah. we're gonna make our actors do dives n rolls n shit in deathtrap WWI biplanes #WHILE acting WHILE controlling the cockpit camera #then they can gay-kiss each other. as a treat.