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The comment of the weekOh, the 80s, some of you may remember: Michael Jackson was still black most of the time, clubs were called discos and one or the other older siblings spent a lot of time time in the bathroom. It was also the time when vampires were really badass and didn't glitter. Okay, they had perms, highlights, shoulder pads, eyeliner, nail polish...erm...probably to blame for a significant portion of the ozone hole and about as straight as Wham or Boy George. But believe SamRamJam when he says: The Lost Boys is still (or maybe because of that?) a pretty great movie!
So I thought to myself, oh, if you're already watching the 80's werewolf movie, then you can also catch up on the 80's vampire movie. And gosh, is this movie awesome! It took me half the movie alone to figure out if the main character was a boy or a girl (even after the bathtub scene) and at the end looked up the actor's gender (hey come on, he's wearing a pink shirt with "Born to Shop" on it, then you can get confused.) His other behavior, such as a loving long stroke with his head on his/her brother's chest, and other behavior patterns are also more feminine. So I thought we were watching a young transsexual here. Just because she's trans doesn't mean it has to be cannibalized separately. So from the side all tutti, oh Joel, you rascal you!
The rest of the Schützenfest leaves nothing to be desired when it comes to backcombing and bleaching with bleach, as well as eyeliner and attempts to hit on one's own bank (or are they from the other bank? I always get confused with such descriptions. Let's just say: in the gay). And some guys always say Twilight is too gay for them, and when I ask what aren't gay vampires (I think vampires are inherently homoerotic, probably one of the reasons why they are particularly popular with women), some actually say "Lost Boys". Well, Edward often expresses his (sexual) interest in a woman in Twilight, the Lost Boys are just friends with another female vampire... or something. If the Lost Boys aren't gay vampires, then there are no gay vampires!
The staid society serves as a counterbalance in the form of two pubescent boys who hide in a comic shop, talk complete strangers into Dracula comics, are absolute losers when it comes to killing vampires ("That was unfair, he moved and screamed!") and like Rambo walk around
Being gay/ vampirism as an expression of life, as embracing one's own emotional world against a puberty-militarized society. I have no idea how much of this was consciously implemented by Joel Schumacher, but even if it happens to him unconsciously, there is probably no second time pointing his index finger at the enraptured company in bright neon colors!
As I was born in 1987, I only saw the foothills of the 80s. Hair roller wands in the bathroom closet and record collections at the flea market. So I often find it really difficult to build up this nostalgic connection to the style and clothing of this era. I mean, I'm really thankful to be there, but I'll never understand how babies could be conceived in the 80's, since that requires males and females to have found each other somehow attractive beforehand... and then the perms off brush your face, brrrr. Ergo, there is a whole series of "cult films" from this era that I really can't get anything out of. The Lost Boys aren't one of them, because even if their Glam Metal outfits are really... well, not daring, but already very exaggerated, the film still convinces with equipment and music and thus transports its attitude to life for everyone other generation. Music and clothes may change, but the atmosphere remains the same! And so instead of the usual I say: Yeah, it must have been really nice for that time, actually: Wow, the film was awesome!
