40 Dicks

I went to a Sam Fuller double feature at the Egyptian and the first film was “Forty Guns”. It’s a great movie, a really great movie. Barbra Stanwyck runs the territory with an iron fist and a herd of dragoons. Yes there are forty of them and apparently they can’t satisfy our whip cracking Stanwyck.

One thing bothered me. It’s not a big thing since the movie is about masculinity and the potent male (Barry Sullivan) is the winner in the end, but that was the problem. At the end, in typical movie fashion, Stanwyck has changed from black pants and shirt into a white dress and is chasing after our male hero.

You might be asking why I used the penis to describe this picture. Simple, it’s because every gun metaphor is used to represent the male member. The best moment being when discussing Barry Sullivan's legendary pistol, Stanwyck asks if she can, “Touch it.”

Sullivan: It might go off in your face.

Stanwyck: I’ll take that chance.

Wow! A facial metaphor, get it?

I guess in today’s day and age you couldn’t get away with this type of movie. They’d want the woman to remain strong and there being some kind of compromise between them. Maybe no compromise at all, they’d never get together.

But Fuller isn’t about equality, he’s about men and being a rough, brutal, manly man who believes the concept that all a woman needs is a deep dicking

It may be true, since I have a small dick, I’ll never know.