Contents:
- FIRE ISLAND REVIEW – BREEZY GAY SP ON PRI AND PREJUDICE FAILS TO IGNE
- 'FIRE ISLAND' TRAILER: 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' GO GAY WH JOEL KIM BOOSTER, BOWEN YANG
FIRE ISLAND REVIEW – BREEZY GAY SP ON PRI AND PREJUDICE FAILS TO IGNE
Directed by Andrew Ahn, Fire Island follows a group of gay men spendg a week at the queer hotspot off the ast of Long Island, New York. While givg Pri and Prejudice a morn, gay update, the romantic edy still manag to rema remarkably fahful to s source material. Gays Space.
Gay, thirtysomethg and, his words, “termally alone, Howie (Bowen Yang) has based all his th far unrealised ials of romance on the heterosexual romantic edi he grew up watchg on screen: oppos attractg, meetg cute and makg mad dash for each other at the airport. “Sh like that don’t happen real life, ” unsels his bt iend Noah (Joel Kim Booster), though ’s not as if Howie needs remdg – he jt wants “the rom stuff” Ahn’s sunny gay buddy movie Fire Island negotiat that fundamental nflict s characters while also fallg prey to as a film. Mappg nventnally chey romantic edy beats on to ls Hollywood-dictated homosexual terra, also aims to liver some tough tths about the morn gay datg scene between the sweetened sunset smooch and all’s-well-that-ends-well optimism of sundry past vehicl for Sandra Bullock or Meg Ryan.
An annual week-long vatn on New York’s gay mec of Fire Island has bee the bdg fixture of their iendship; together wh three thly drawn iends, they crash the holiday home of lbian pal Er (Margaret Cho), and spend their days drkg, dancg and cisg as if there’s no tomorrow – or at least no loomg middle sex easily to Noah, though not to Howie. Fire Island is lourful, digtible and gamely acted by an ensemble of roundly good-lookg ic performers: rather like the siarly polished, perky Love, Simon, prov that gay people n have their cheery mastream fantasi too, even if s ncln steers narrowly clear of certa “hetero nonsense”. A morn take on the classic Jane Aten novel “Pri and Prejudice, ” “Fire Island” foc on two gay bt iends, Noah (Booster) and Howie (Yang), who take a trip to the P, a hamlet on New York’s Fire Island that’s a hotspot for queer culture.
'FIRE ISLAND' TRAILER: 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' GO GAY WH JOEL KIM BOOSTER, BOWEN YANG
“I want people — pecially gay men, pecially queer people — to walk away om the movie happy that they’re gay, ” Booster told Vany Fair. “I thk that there are so many movi about the gay experience that are ght wh people who are unsure if they’re happy beg gay or stgglg wh g out… I want people to e away om this movie feelg the joy of our experienc and that ’s not all tragic. I was like, ‘Wouldn't be funny if I wrote a gay Pri and Prejudice set on Fire Island?
It wasn’t a se of simply swappg the genrs or wrg a gay Mr.
“I thk the gay muny, the self-imposed class systems are so much more magnified on the island, and felt prcient and relevant. “It's pretty personal to me and to a lot of gay men that I know, ” Booster explas. Noah scrib the island as "gay Disney World, " and says 's "fun for the whole fay.