Heheh, speaking of
The King and I ... I had an odd movie thing happen over the past week.
zapppop called me just after seeing
300 for the first time. His roommate, Gemini Cricket, wanted to see it again on Imax for some unfathomable reason
, and took zapp with him. I got a text after the movie to the effect of, "
that was so homo." And the person I was with when I got the text (my daughter, Shanti) got into a conversation with me about how flaming-queenlike the Persian Emperor Xerxes was portrayed in that film.
Even though Xerxes was shown to have nothing but female sex slaves in his rather debauched traveling hareem, it was pretty clear to us that he was as gay or gayer than the typical beefcake-loving fan of the movie
300.
What does this have to do with
The King and I? Well, nothing ... precisely. But just after that conversation about gay Xerxes, I come home to find in my Netflix envelope a movie called
One Night with the King. It's the story of the Jewish holiday of Purim, and the legend of Esther - who marries the Persian King and uses her influence to save all the jews in Persia from an extinction edict.
Oddly, though ... they changed the King in the movie from Ahasuerus to Xerxes ... the same Xerxes from
300 (though played decidedly less gay, and much more gay-appealing Spartan-bodied) - even though this movie was made about a year before
300.
I just found that a very odd thing to do, and certainly a very odd coincidence. And I found blueerica's noting of
The King and I another tiny coincidence when I came to this thread to post about
One Night with the King.
That is all.
oh, except that I was also surprisingly entertained by A Night at the Museum ... really a much better movie than One Night with the King.