The posts about racial issues got me thinking about this again

[Joanne Collins]

Though I think it was Ebony's mention of the butler from The Fresh Prince
Of Bel Air that got me rethinking this.

A few months ago, I saw the movie The Legend Of Bagger Vance. Loved the
movie, Matt Damon was as wonderful as he always is, Charlize Theron was
beautiful and Will Smith was wonderful as the title character. I also
learned more about golf than I ever thought I'd find interesting.

Recently I read the book the movie was based on. For once, I didn't care
for the book as much as for the movie, mainly because I really liked the
character Charlize Theron played in the movie and in the book she was a
cipher, and also there were some things in the movie that weren't in the book.

However, as a slash fan, I did happen to notice a few scenes in which the
slash subtext, though very subtle, was also very clear to someone looking
for it (admittedly probably very much in the eye of the beholder, but
that's what subtext *is*).

The same slash subtext was not lacking in the movie, it was non-existent.

And I started to wonder...the book *dealt* with the racial thing. The movie
didn't even *mention* it at all. The setting is the US South after World
War One.

And I can't help wondering, would the removal of even the subtle slash
subtext perhaps be racially motivated? It's particularly clear in the first
meeting with the character of Vance. In the movie he appears out of the
blue, in the book he was a part of Rannulph Junah's life from before the
beginning and that first scene was one of the ones with subtext.

Just a thought that probably has no basis in more than my imagination. But
when we are talking about actors who have made extremely slashy movies in
the past, I have to wonder.

Joanne.

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