Popdose: Exit Music (For a Film): Erasure, “Stop!”
Zack
· 1 year ago
I think James Dean's character in Rebel Without a Cause works is another good example of a gamma. Anyone else have any examples?
Neil
· 1 year ago
HMC!
Zack
· 1 year ago
Neil, did you go there too?
DwDunphy
· 1 year ago
Zack, this just blew away your previous posts, full stop. Film dissection and sociology debate thinly disguised as a song review.
Good stuff!
james c
· 1 year ago
awesome... great post... I have always been a huge fan of the cure even though I didn't discover them until 2025. Now the robots place ear lobes in my brain and my rockas shak me poopstake if you know what I mean... which I think you do.
Jeff
· 1 year ago
Great analysis of one of my all-time favorite movies - but am surprised that you didn't pick "Colours" as the song throgh which to discuss Sean Bateman. Tthe scenes covered by that song clearly back-up your 'gamma male' argument - and it's a rare version of a beautiful song.
Zack
· 1 year ago
I'd thought about it. The part where the camera swings out and they join the split screen is one of my favorite moments in film, period (the first and only time I've ever seen this done, though the X-files did something a bit similar in the episode "Triangle"). I may come back to it in the future.
I like the idea you posit about the gamma male, but Bret Easton Ellis ... y' lost me there.
Most of the Dean characters are gammas, I would say. Look at Jett Rink in GIANT. Some of the conflicted Alpha male action heroes -- Bond, Rambo -- look like alphas on the outside, but I'll bet they are, at their heart, gammas. What does that make them? Reluctant alphas?
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Good stuff!
I like the idea you posit about the gamma male, but Bret Easton Ellis ... y' lost me there.
Most of the Dean characters are gammas, I would say. Look at Jett Rink in GIANT. Some of the conflicted Alpha male action heroes -- Bond, Rambo -- look like alphas on the outside, but I'll bet they are, at their heart, gammas. What does that make them? Reluctant alphas?