I've never looked at any male friend of mine in that way. It looked to me like they were two guys, in love, and growing more in love, but who couldn't act on it - so tension grew.Coito ergo sum wrote:I know where he's coming from. Some of the dialog between Frodo and Sam is a bit gay, like when Frodo smiles and gazes lovingly at Sam at certain points in the movie. It's not that it's "gay" - it's just loving emotions between two very close friends who care about each other. But, it's easy to mischaracterize it as gay in order to poke fun. I don't think it was Peter Jackson's "agenda" to make it gay and stick a finger in the eye of Tolkien or his fans.Gawdzilla wrote:Not seeing "gay" in the movie there. Specifics?Cormac wrote:But in Jackson's Return of the King (NOT the book), and particularly Frodo and Sam's journey through Ithilien and on into Mordor, it became more and more of a gay love story presented in the style of a midday movie channel romance or a Mills and Boon novel.
The way I see it, it was blatantly obvious in the movie.
I'm not saying this to poke fun, I really mean it. Whether Jackson had an agenda or not, what he made was a movie that presented Sam and Frodo of being actually romantically in love with each other. (Even though there was no moment where they ever seemed like they'd kiss or anything).