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oh david lostboys you torment me so. what if your role was to be a cautionary tale so that the protagonists could choose not to be like you. what if that big moral choice they had to make was a choice that you were never given. what if in the movie you were a little brasher, a little tougher, and the queer-coding blended easily into your villain status, but in the musical the quiet part got louder and you spent your every moment onstage just begging people to stay with you. what if that increased level of depth and sympathy just made what happens to you in the end worse. what if i cried about it

#hurts don’t it #the lost boys #the lost boys musical

I could really fuck up a fluffernutter sandwich right now

#fluffernutter

sv-dh-gb-555

thinking about how david doesn't come in to "belong to someone" until michael sings that he wants a love that lasts forever and never dies. you people aren't slick. this was deliberate. i am sick over it. #noticing

#ugh gonna make me sick #the lost boys musical

douglas-duke-keane

michael in no more monsters vs belong to someone

#the lost boys musical

enquiringangel

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I think David does not actually stop time, he merely alters people’s perceptions of it

Which is fundamentally the same thing to anyone experiencing it, while also being a less universe-breaking (but still very impressive) ability. It’s also more in-line with movie canon and his powers where he can make you perceive things that aren’t there

(Also purely hc territory but I think he needs a degree of eye contact and/or proximity for it to work. David can’t just be all ‘siri pause’ on someone halfway across town)

#the lost boys musical

emmiegoesinsane

genuinely it would be less gay for them to just kiss instead of doing whatever the hell theyre doing

#the lost boys musical

raelemond

blood spray is just another kind of cumshot

mephistopheles

dateamonster

level 1: the lost boys is gay af

level 2: the lost boys follows a not uncommon horror movie trend where monstrous and villainous characters are associated with alt fashion or other counter-culture signifiers, which may also call to mind an association with queerness as it exists in conflict with cishet cultural norms. this, intentionally or unintentionally, helps to position queerness as an evil threat to the status quo in the minds of viewers. while a lot of queer people end up seeing themselves in these characters in a positive way, its inappropriate to talk about how cool gay vampires are without at least acknowledging the implications of this in relation to the long history of queer-coded villains in film.

level 3: the lost boys is actually all a clever subversion of the aforementioned trope; while on the surface michael is positioned as the classic disaffected youth, child of divorce (this and him being in the care of a single mother helping to introduce the idea that his vampirism ie latent homosexuality starts with this initial failure to uphold conservative family values), falling in with the wrong crowd who corrupt him and creates a rift between him and his family, the twist of the movie reveals that the vampire gang exists under the authority of the head vampire who himself has all the signifiers of the wholesome middle class all-american dad figure. this recontextualizes the queer-coding of the vampires from a gang of wild subversives to a group of kids who, like michael, were most likely struggling with some sort of instability in their home lives and were groomed into vampirehood by their sire, the symbol of the father they perhaps lacked. the precious but fragile unity that exists among these outsiders cannot survive, not because a more normative family structure has some special thing they lack, but because they are chasing an idea of family that despite their counter-cultural leanings hasnt been meaningfully disentangled from patriarchy, as embodied by their literal patriarch.

level 4: the lost boys is gay affffff

loustattruther

#I was locked in on this moment tonight #the lost boys #the lost boys Broadway #the lost boys musical

alibsangels

We knew you had it in you

#the lost boys #the lost boys Broadway

douglas-duke-keane

wolfsbaneyaps

THE LOST BOYS: from press previews to the tony awards

think I might need to rebrand as a the lost boys musical fanblog

#jk I love this too much to even make a fanblog #any followers I lose weren’t worth keeping if my tlb posting drives them away #thou shall not leave :)

starshine-atlas

Something I love about the Lost Boys movie that is made even clearer by the different music styles in the musical, is that all three Emersons are experiencing three different story genres.

Michael is experiencing a true gothic horror romance.

Sam is experiencing a monster squad-style coming of age teenage horror comedy.

Lucy is experiencing a second chance romance, complete with her children trying to get in the way of her new relationship

This becomes exceptionally clear when you listen to Secret Comes Out, My Brother Is A..., and The Good Part back to back.

#ITS SO GOOD #THE DIRECTION TOO TO PORTRAY THIS MICHAEL ARDEN THE DIRECTOR YOU ARE