#and since im writing the FFIV fic and writing Kain and Cecil it's like .... is this homoerotic or does Kain just long to die for Cecil | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

wandringaesthetic · 11 months

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I still haven't watched The Dark Tower movie and since I never heard anything positive about it I maybe never will and I am literal years late to this discourse

But. I was thinking about this because I'm rereading Drawing of the Three for the first time in... 20 (!!!!) years.

Hypothetically, it's a good and cool thing to cast Idris Elba as Roland and I didn't really think anything negative about it at the time.

But really. Really he needs to be some Clint Eastwood adjacent guy because of the whole role the figure of the gunslinger plays in the cultural zeitgeist, yeah? Something about masculinity and violence and the American psyche. Something something something. Like. This guy actually probably needs to be a white guy to effectively represent everything he represents.

Because, yessss, Roland is the protagonist but I think if you're thinking of Roland as the hero or the good guy or w/e you probably have the wrong idea.

#the dark tower #what kinda surprised me this go round is the idea that Eddie could maybe love Roland is dropped in REALLY early #as a thought that Eddie has #and i read IT pretty recently and in it also there's this moment where one of the kids #i cannot remember Steven King character names because they're all like.... John #but one of the kids is thinking how he'd die for leader boy with a kind of fascinated horror #this fealty kind of love #and since im writing the FFIV fic and writing Kain and Cecil it's like .... is this homoerotic or does Kain just long to die for Cecil #why not both i guess

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