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If sexual conservatives could effectively advertise their histories, HIV-conscious suitors would compete to lavish them with attention.
Hoffman evidently thinks that he has chosen the last Western society in which a young woman, Hermia (Anna Friel), could plausibly be threatened with death for not obeying her father's command to marry his choice of suitors, in this case Demetrius (Christian Bale)--although David Strathairn's Theseus is such an apologetically lightweight patriarch that the threat seems incongruous.
He is the least likely of the suitors, but the odd fragments he has assembled serve as answers to the princess's dark riddles, which leave his brothers stammering.
What Rage for Fame makes abundantly clear is how essential the patronage of powerful suitors and would-be suitors was for Luce, and probably for other career women of her generation as well.
As absurd as it may seem, she and Johnson sound like a couple of suitors (click to listen in on the courtship).