I fucked Dominic Toretto and all I got was this lousy contrast-collar T-shirt

One of the things about vidding is that you spend a lot of time looking at your source material with the sound off, something that brings out unnoticed moments in the visuals that suddenly take on new meaning. It's with the sound off that you can really see the characters who are having eye sex, where you notice odd little tics or motions. It brings an entirely new light to any source material (try it and you'll see what I mean). While I was capturing clips for Loaded Gun, I began to really look at the clothing that Dom, especially, wore, and noticed this time that it seemed heavily coded to create certain moods throughout the film. When you've got a star who's very fashion forward, as Vin Diesel is, and can wear almost any kind of clothing really well (and who has modeled a lot), you have an incredible canvas to work with in not just building character through clothes and set design, but also in telling the audience all kinds of things that happen in the movie between the lines. In the Fast and the Furious, I think they are sending heavily coded messages through wardrobe, particularly Dominic's.

I've rarely had as much friending for anything as I did for the the men in eyeliner post and later the white shirt post, and for some reason, people like it when I write meta about silly fashion things. Go figure. So after noticing how incredibly coded the clothing choices were in this movie and telling my theory to mlyn, who laughed about it, I thought I would explain just why the Fast and the Furious is gayer than any gay movie I've ever seen: it all comes down to clothing, or lack thereof.

( The new Dress-Me-Up Dominic action figure, and his sidekick Brian the Slob )