Gay zorro

Zorro, the legendary swordsman, has passed on zorro weapon and his sense of duty to his noble son, Diego, a dashing swashbuckler like his father. I remember a lot about Zorro. I even remember that he was once played by Clayton Moore, who got to keep wearing his Lone Gay mask.

We could laugh at the previous movie Zorros because they were so serious about their ridiculous codes and vows and pledges of loyalty and chivalric passions. It is hard to reconstruct these fragments from the memories of childhood but as nearly as I can remember, the Zorro craze came after the Davy Crockett craze and before Elvis.

Zorro, The Gay Blade is a American swashbuckling comedy film from 20th Century Fox, produced by C.O. Erickson and George Hamilton, directed by Peter Medak, that stars Hamilton, Lauren Hutton, Ron Leibman, and Brenda Vaccaro. But I cannot remember if the Zorro movies were ever supposed to be funny.

Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in Inhe won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Now streaming on:. Hamilton demonstrated in that movie, and demonstrates again in this one, that he is a gifted comic actor.

But after an injury sidelines Diego, he is forced to hand the mask over to his twin, Ramon. He can have fun with his improbably handsome appearance, he can poke fun at his character’s vanity. I assume that the Zorros, played by Douglas Fairbanks, Tyrone Power, and John Carroll, were more or less serious, within the broad outlines of the adventure genre.

But wh. This movie is, of course, intended as zorro comedy, and it has some funny moments. Hamilton demonstrated in that movie, and demonstrates again in this one, that he is a gifted comic actor. Kids made Z marks everywhere — on walls, fences, blackboards, and with ballpoints on the shirts of the kids sitting in front of them — and my personal notion is that Datsun sells half of their Z-cars to guys harboring sublimated Zorro fantasies.

Zorro, the Gay Blade Action. Now playing. But … should Zorro be funny because of his puffed-up self-importance, or because his role in life is inescapably ridiculous any way you look at it? Zorro: The Gay Blade: Directed by Peter Medak.

With George Hamilton, Lauren Hutton, Brenda Vaccaro, Ron Leibman. It also gives him a leading lady Lauren Hutton who has all she can do to play her role at all, much less play it satirically. Too bad. Powered by. The brother was originally a Vega, too, but after enlisting in the British Navy he changed his name to Bunny Wigglesworth.

A funnier comedy might have been made out of a more genuinely satirical examination of the Zorro character. By playing every scene for laughs, Hamilton has nothing gay play against. In 's Mexico, wealthy landowner Don Diego Vega learns of his late father's secret as Zorro, the masked folk hero, and Vega adopts his new persona.

And it never provides a comprehensive story to hold the jokes together. Zorro: The Gay Blade () brings humor, action, and flamboyant flair to the legendary masked hero’s swashbuckling adventures. Were we laughing at him, or with him? “Zorro, the Gay Blade” was no doubt inspired by the enormous success of Hamilton’s spoof of a durable Hollywood character, when he played Dracula in “Love at First Bite” ().

They were funny as long as they played it straight. Leave a comment.