Tom of Finland: Daddy and the Muscle Academy
by Ilppo Pohjola
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Actor: Tom of FinlandDirector: Ilppo Pohjola
Brand: Zeitgeist Films
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 55 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-06-17
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Zeitgeist Films
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DVD Review: Tom of Finland: Daddy and the Muscle Academy is dated and no longer at the head of its class
Summary: 2 Stars
Tom of Finland is the sort of DVD you'll like if you really like this sort of DVD. Part Gay porn (owing a debt to Kenneth Anger) and part documentary, Daddy and the Muscle Academy (Zeitgeist Films) runs a scant hour, just enough time to allow the audience to learn some things never before considered, and supply endless fodder for a certain type of cocktail party.
Touko Laaksonen was a commercial artist who followed his dream--- and fetishes---into a million-dollar business. Thanks to bootleggers and the nature of selling the business of sex, Laaksonen, as Tom of Finland, gathered a great deal of publicity but little money. His iconic gay drawings from the 50s' body building magazines (not quite porno, not quite art) all the way to important commercial images of the pre-AIDS 80s, will be with us forever.
Body building leather men grunting at each other in dark bars are pretty much a thing of the past and this film scrupulously investigates what is no more. Some archival shots directly related to the artist are interesting, but the recreation of the culture, all but destroyed by progress in gay liberation on the one side and the AIDS crises on the other, barely a decade before the making of the film, falls flat. (The film was completed shortly before Tom's death in 1991.) The artist talks about humanity, but other than a short sequence about his long time companion, the film comes off about as human as Metropolis, only with less humor.
This is not to deny a muscle and leather worshipping subset of the gay and the straight community, nor in any way to denigrate the artist's contributions, but the history of a closeted gay man finding wild success after declaring his sexuality isn't particularly new. And the accoutrements of leather, muscles and S&M toys are neither shocking nor particularly interesting today.
If Tom and his men interest you, by all means rush out (or stride manfully forward) and pick up the DVD. If this doesn't interest you, perhaps a musical or a Ross Hunter film will do.
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