Bruce Lee

There are a lot of good fight scenes from Bruce Lee’s movies uploaded to YouTube, in addition to the “no dogs and Chinese allowed” clip we watched in class:

Someone who watched this clip of the Chuck Norris-Bruce Lee fight we viewed must have agreed about the homoerotic undertones, because s/he re-cut it to do a “Brokeback Mountain Oscars montage” effect:

You could say this YouTube user “queered” the movie by recutting it (or you could argue that it was pretty queer to begin with); this technique is very common in fan fiction and is called “slash fiction.” Why would fans want to recut or rewrite, say, classic Star Trek episodes to create a gay romance between Spock and Kirk? You’ll have to take Constance Penley’s popular culture class over in Film and Media Studies to find out.

In the meantime, here’s the Oscar awards “gay cowboy” montage from 2007, just because it’s so fun:

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