The Man I Wanna Be
Max Quivers and Joey Nux vs Cal Bennett, Muscle4Hire (Wrestler4Hire)
Joey is the man I could never be. Cal is the man I could never have. But Max - "the strange entity that is Max Quivers," to quote the product description - is the guy I kinda would like to be. Ask me in general what I think of masked men in business suits, and I'd say they are provocative, certainly, like a character in a Diane Arbus photo or a David Lynch movie, but not my usual image of a wrestler. Quivers may be the exception.
If I could hire muscle-god Nux to assist me as I attempt to emasculate the highly photogenic Cal Bennett, I would in a New York minute. That, my friends, would be heaven for me. In my fantasies, I'm the guy in the mask, humbling the most beautiful man in underground wrestling, with a henchman who looks like he just stepped out of a Marvel comic book.
If I could hire muscle-god Nux to assist me as I attempt to emasculate the highly photogenic Cal Bennett, I would in a New York minute. That, my friends, would be heaven for me. In my fantasies, I'm the guy in the mask, humbling the most beautiful man in underground wrestling, with a henchman who looks like he just stepped out of a Marvel comic book.
In this video, Cal continues to radiate Hollywood-style magnetism, and Joey is still my benchmark for masculine deportment - in attitude, visage, and brawn. Max Quivers, by contrast, is a man of mystery. His power rests partly in his anonymity and in his black suit and tie and blue lucha mask, totems of high status.
Since childhood, I have empathized with the great movie villains - Fu Manchu, Auric Goldfinger, Miguelito Loveless, Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Hans Gruber. I've admired them for their grandeur and presumed sexual perversity in contrast to real-world villains, who are uniformly tasteless and witless - sadly, there's no shortage of examples, so I won't bother to go there.
The faceless villain is a richer gimmick than most. It addresses the question of hypocrisy - for which unmasking offers a possible solution. More positively, it touches on the very nature of mystery - the tantalizing effect of what we can't see or can't know. The allure of the hidden can be transfixing. It can obsess. It can and usually does stimulate the imagination. All these things are tied to erotic love - and creativity in all its forms.
Since childhood, I have empathized with the great movie villains - Fu Manchu, Auric Goldfinger, Miguelito Loveless, Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Hans Gruber. I've admired them for their grandeur and presumed sexual perversity in contrast to real-world villains, who are uniformly tasteless and witless - sadly, there's no shortage of examples, so I won't bother to go there.
The faceless villain is a richer gimmick than most. It addresses the question of hypocrisy - for which unmasking offers a possible solution. More positively, it touches on the very nature of mystery - the tantalizing effect of what we can't see or can't know. The allure of the hidden can be transfixing. It can obsess. It can and usually does stimulate the imagination. All these things are tied to erotic love - and creativity in all its forms.
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