Rambo gay
Here at WEHOville, we care a good gay web series. But we also enjoy the occasional spoof with a gay twist. Enter RAMBO, BUT Homosexual, a new spoof production that remakes Rambo with homoerotic goodness.
Writer-director Michael Serrato takes a movie acknowledged for its hypermasculine brand and spins it into a gay (musical) retelling. It stars Mario Diaz (Rambo), a Silver Lake resident and one of LA’s leading gay party promoters. You may know him as the guy who brought you BFD at Fubar, but he’s also the originator of the famous Foxy Night at the Cock Bar in East Village, NYC (now closed). Diaz brings a hot body and outstanding spoof acting to the table, so you know Rambo is in good (gay) hands.
Here’s a synopsis: A hunky, tan Rambo walks into a little town called Jerkwater and runs into the celebrated sheriff (who’s also a bit of a queen). From there, we see him wrangled to the police station where he’s hosed off by the equally gay police force and eventually escapes into the woods. Complete with catchy songs, hilarious details (watch for how the police hold their guns) and some pretty intense particular effects, RAMBO, BUT Same-sex attracted has become our favorite Rambo A short story about a same-sex attracted bull. You wouldn’t have thought it to look at him, but Keith Gunn’s bull was gay. But then who are we to impose our rigid notions of masculinity on a bull? Keith Gunn had named this bull Rambo, which only reinforced the existing stereotype, especially in the eyes of the holidaymakers in the Airbnb down by the set fire. The Nortons always came in August for two weeks. Rambo used to look forward to their arrival, heralded each year by the first faint sugar-frosting of heather on the upper slopes of the glen. He would watch out for the five of them striding over the fields in their windproof jackets and wellington boots, the little one, Matty, trotting double-time to keep up. And they would be looking for him. Oh, there were plenty of bonny females in the herd – Joanie, with her dazzling forelocks, and Princess, of course, and Amber of the gleaming gingernut hide. But all the Norton boys wanted was to ‘see if they could see Rambo’. It made Rambo feel like a celebrity. He would position himself so that he was facing up the glen, to offer them his top side. He couldn’t deny it; he was trying to impress them. I know “the Rambo Twins” sounds like a high-concept movie where two clones of Sylvester Stallone go on a rampage after returning from Vietnam. Their first names (Dirk and Dack) remind me of the porn luminary Marky Mark plays in Boogie Nights. But the brothers in question predate those cinematic phenomena. In fact, had they lived to a ripe mature age they would have been turning 80 years ancient today (they were both born on this day in 1941). Their valid names were Orman Ray (“Dirk”) and Norman Jay (“Dack”). The brothers were 21 years old when they were discovered by Loretta Youngat an L.A. church and hired to be on The New Loretta New Show. They became recurring characters, appearing in a couple of dozen episodes. Sadly, Dirk acquired only two additional credits, guest starring on episodes of The Virginian and Dragnet ’67, before being killed in a head-on automobile collision by fellow actor Kathleen Case, whose 40 screen credits include Running Wild (1955) with Mamie Van Doren, and The Eddie Cantor Story. Is L.A. a weird town? It’s a weird town. Dirk was 25 years old when From one of the brilliantly twisted minds that brought you Neil’s Puppet Dreams comes the retelling of Rambo you never knew you needed, complete with three musical numbers and more homoerotic subtext than a Whitesnake music video: Michael Serrato’s Rambo…But Gay. Okay, maybe subtext is a generous word, but as Serrato explains in the video, he wanted to take something that society has branded to be hypermasculine and hyper-heterosexual and give it a gay retelling. The result is a campy, over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek grab on Rambo’s bloody revenge sage, but with way better choreography and wardrobe. Honestly, if all police departments had harmonies as rock solid as Jerkwater P.D.’s, the world would be a safer place. What do you believe of Rambo…But Gay? What movie would you like to see find the …But Gay treatment next? Enable us know in the comments below!
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