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right hand, but Muir found the position reminiscent of fellatio. Dandrige's speech to "Evil" Ed
Thompson, in which Dandrige convinces Ed to become a vampire, is also cast in the language of homosexual seduction. Ed is placed in a physically submissive stance, and Dandrige speaks of Ed's outsider status in language that echoes the outsider status of homosexuals in the 1980s.
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noted instances in the original film in which
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