#picnic at hanging rock
Doodling while watching the new Picnic at Hanging Rock series. Edith is strangely relatable. :D (And I think I’m finally starting to find an art style…. goodness that took a long time.)
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unstoppable force (gay people) vs immovable object (“run away with me” but it never actually happens trope)
I’ve actually seen some success gay run-away -with-me stories in period shows/lit!!
- Maurice by E. M. Forster (+ the 1987 movie, dir. James Ivory) - Maurice Hall & Alec Scudder
- Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay (+ the 2018 miniseries adaptation*) - Mike Fitzhubert and Albert Crundall; also Miranda Reid, Marion Quade, and Greta McCraw**
*I gotta be honest, I haven’t read the book or watched the 1975 movie adaptation but I’m under the impression that the 2018 miniseries brought the ever-present subtext between Mike & Albert closest to explicit text of the three. It’s obviously clear that they’re interpreted as gay in the series, even if they don’t say it, but the miniseries does explicitly focus on the canon queerness of the 3 girls who are the main characters.
**These three plus Irma Leopold all disappear at the Hanging Rock in search of freedom, especially freedom from the constraints of heteronormative society. While the mystery of where they disappeared to is never officially solved, a deleted chapter of the book suggests that the girls escaped through a hole in the fabric of space-time and into freedom. However, Irma is ultimately spurned by the Rock because she is not fully willing to give up society (representing historical queer people who followed compulsory heterosexuality for safety and status); her body is found and she manages to live a comfortable upper-class, if unhappy, life afterwards. Meanwhile, the aromantic/sapphic-coded Miranda and lovers Marion and Miss McCraw successfully escape and find freedom at the Rock. :)
Sorry, those qualifications got long! But they’re good, (mostly) happy examples of queer rep where the gays get to run away together :))
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Natalie Dormer
Picnic At Hanging Rock
1975, Peter Weir
Poster by Scott Saslow
Katherine Pierce & Hester Appleyard // au
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Feelings I can’t fight.
You’re free to leave me, but just don’t decieve me
“What we see and what we seem are but a dream - a dream within a dream”
Picnic at Hanging Rock, 1975
Favourite movies that I’ve seen in 2013 so far:
1. Hiroshima Mon Amour (#69)
2. Une Femme est Une Femme (#52)
3. Picnic at Hanging Rock (#3)
4. Les Amours Imaginaires (#50)
5. Tokyo Story (#63)
6. Before Sunset (#38)
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