'Passag' is NC-17, 'Red, Whe & Royal Blue' is R—are gay films beg rated on a stricter sle?
Contents:
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- “OPPENHEIMER” TI: NC MAN HELPED LIVER ATOMIC BOMB ON BOARD ENOLA GAY
- JOAQU PHOENIX’S NEXT PROJECT WILL BE AN NC-17 GAY LOVE STORY
- OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
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As many are quick to pot out, Passag‘ NC-17 ratg reeks of homophobia, spirg wrer-director Sachs to ll out the MPA for beg “anti-gay, anti-progrs, anti-sex. The whole thg brgs to md the recent R-ratg for Amazon’s upg gay rom- Red, Whe & Royal Blue, based off the popular book of the same name by Casey McQuiston—self a massive h wh olr teen and young adult dienc.
To s cred, Red, Whe & Royal Blue isn’t y about the gay relatnship at s center and do clu a small handful of fleetg love-makg scen, but they are— this wrer’s timatn (havg seen an early preview of the film)—pretty tame and barely even show sk. Well, there’s one thg the two movi have mon… Are films that feature gay them and gay sex judged on a harsher sle?
“We’re talkg about a select group of people who have a certa bent, which seems anti-gay, anti-progrs, anti-sex—a lot of thgs which I’m not.
“OPPENHEIMER” TI: NC MAN HELPED LIVER ATOMIC BOMB ON BOARD ENOLA GAY
Pedro Almodóvar’s movi often provoke, but 2004’s “Bad Edutn” actually earned the director an NC-17 ratg for one scene which Gael García Bernal’s head is seen bobbg up and down durg a pictn of gay oral sex. After growg up there, Thomas Ferebee served on the Enola Gay flight crew and would ultimately bee the man who pulled the leaver to ploy “Ltle Boy” on Hiroshima on Aug. In 1945, roughly 100 days before Hiroshima, Ferebee would be asked to serve one of the most secretive missns of the war, as a member of the Enola Gay crew.
JOAQU PHOENIX’S NEXT PROJECT WILL BE AN NC-17 GAY LOVE STORY
“[The Enola Gay crew] ma no apologi for the job that they did, ” he said. Tman, pulled the lever om the Enola Gay’s drop hatch and released “Ltle Boy” onto the unexpected cy below.
The bombg and the Enola Gay crew were to return home and face qutns and cricism for their role the endg of the war. Joaqu Phoenix is takg up another notch after Ari Aster’s “Be Is Aaid, ” teamg up wh Todd Hayn for an NC-17-rated gay romance film.
OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”
It’s a gay love story set 1930s L.