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- FIRST LOOK: FILM OF GAY ROMANTIC DRAMA “BURNG BLUE” IS FALLY BEG RELEASED
- NEW "BURNG BLUE" SCENE: WAS IT LOVE OR "JT A DNKEN NIGHT IN NEW YORK" (WATCH){FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY DAN AVERYJUNE 5, 2014/2:20 PMBY DAN AVERYJUNE 5, 2014 / 2:20 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"NEW \"BURNG BLUE\" SCENE: WAS IT LOVE OR \"JT A DNKEN NIGHT IN NEW YORK\" (WATCH)","DATEPUBLISHED":"2014-06-05T18:20:52.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2014-06-05T18:20:52.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BURNG BLUE, THE NEW GAY ARY DRAMA G TO MOVIE THEATERS AND VIO-ON-MAND TOMORROW, HAS RELEASED A NEW {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BASED ON WRER-DIRECTOR D.M.W. GREER’S 1992 PLAY OF THE SAME NAME, THE FILM REUNTS AN ILLIC AFFAIR BETWEEN TWO NAVY FIGHTER PILOTS, DANIEL (TRENT FORD, GOSFORD PARK)) AND MATTHEW (ROB MAY, THE CLIENT LIST), AND THE FIRTORM THAT EPTS WHEN ANOTHER OFFICER (MAN SPECTOR, BOARDWALK EMPIRE) FDS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RELATED: WATCH THE TRAILER FOR "BURNG BLUE," A.K.A. "TOP GUN" MEETS "BROKEBACK MOUNTA"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN THE SCENE BELOW, MATTHEW AND DANIEL ARGUE ABOUT WHETHER THEIR FEELGS ARE GENUE, OR JT THE RULT OF A "DNKEN NIGHT NEW YORK."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
FIRST LOOK: FILM OF GAY ROMANTIC DRAMA “BURNG BLUE” IS FALLY BEG RELEASED
Top guns love stggle agast stutnal homophobia a tone-af melodrama well past s sell-by date. When Quent Taranto riffed on the homoeroticism of “Top Gun” his famo meo om the otherwise fotten 1994 die “Sleep Wh Me, ” ltle uld he have known that, two s later, the LGBT muny would get a fighter-jock op to ll s very own.
NEW "BURNG BLUE" SCENE: WAS IT LOVE OR "JT A DNKEN NIGHT IN NEW YORK" (WATCH){FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY DAN AVERYJUNE 5, 2014/2:20 PMBY DAN AVERYJUNE 5, 2014 / 2:20 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"NEW \"BURNG BLUE\" SCENE: WAS IT LOVE OR \"JT A DNKEN NIGHT IN NEW YORK\" (WATCH)","DATEPUBLISHED":"2014-06-05T18:20:52.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2014-06-05T18:20:52.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BURNG BLUE, THE NEW GAY ARY DRAMA G TO MOVIE THEATERS AND VIO-ON-MAND TOMORROW, HAS RELEASED A NEW {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BASED ON WRER-DIRECTOR D.M.W. GREER’S 1992 PLAY OF THE SAME NAME, THE FILM REUNTS AN ILLIC AFFAIR BETWEEN TWO NAVY FIGHTER PILOTS, DANIEL (TRENT FORD, GOSFORD PARK)) AND MATTHEW (ROB MAY, THE CLIENT LIST), AND THE FIRTORM THAT EPTS WHEN ANOTHER OFFICER (MAN SPECTOR, BOARDWALK EMPIRE) FDS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RELATED: WATCH THE TRAILER FOR "BURNG BLUE," A.K.A. "TOP GUN" MEETS "BROKEBACK MOUNTA"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN THE SCENE BELOW, MATTHEW AND DANIEL ARGUE ABOUT WHETHER THEIR FEELGS ARE GENUE, OR JT THE RULT OF A "DNKEN NIGHT NEW YORK."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
But good tentns don’t unt for much art, pecially when Greer muddi his own wh a fairly ludicro subplot volvg a dogged NCIS vtigator who spects that a “gay cult” may be rponsible for three seemgly unrelated fatal flight accints (the implitn beg that a gay soldier would rather crash and burn than risk beg outed). Instead, this shockgly amatrish film evok memori of "Makg Love, " the Arthur Hiller film about a married man g to terms wh his homosexualy. Rather than base the wch hunt on the mere speculatn that a pilot may be gay, "Burng Blue" creat an vtigatn to members of one particular squad whose pilots keep dyg on flight manvers.
The seri of events leads the Navy to thk there’s "a gay cell" endangerg s pilots. How "Burng Blue" gets here, and what do afterward, is far more ’s not a gay cell g the accints, ’s a straight pilot.
Greer tercuts this poorly amed disaster of a sex scene wh scen of a shirtls Daniel and Matthew dog the funky chicken together at a gay dance club. "Even worse, the NCIS agent tormentg Daniel and his crew is the Javert of homophobia. It’s a rnn between Daniel and the extremely homophobic Will.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
This ary-set love story about the tentative g-out of two Navy fighter pilots, dramatiz the plitns of the old "don't ask, don't tell' (DADT) policy but feels like a gay dream of Cise's 1986 h Top 1995, two years after Print Clton's DADT promise, Burng Blue animat the subtext of Top Gun's fighter pilot rivalry when buddi Daniel Lynch (Trent Ford) and Stephenson (Man Spector) share a secret durg a missn and their bond is challenged by a new gung-ho pilot, Blackwood (Rob May) nicknamed Ironman.
In the subgenre of gay di (Damn Dietz's 2008 Dog Tags, for stance) this low-budget romanticism isn't new but Burng Blue is both more ser and more affectg than most. Those also happen to be the basic ncerns of Cise's most recent screen hero (Lns for Lambs, Ghost Protol, Oblivn, Edge of Tomorrow) but as those issu bee the sence of Burng Blue, Greer go beyond cheap suatn and TV-style ntroversy to addrs the human si of a ary/polil An Exclive Clip of Burng BlueWhen Daniel and Ironman are vtigated after beg seen together at a gay bar ("the mic's better and the people are more fun") and wh evince of a rowdy, half-naked photo ("We'd been to the Siste Chapel. The entire culture of homosocial behavr--and brotherly mment--is put on trial.
The iend I went wh read me a uple of bad reviews om folks who did not even show the film the urty of watchg but had judge the film based on s homosexual ntent. Y, gay themed films have evolved pass the don't ask don't tell. One of the fe films I've seen about gays the ary when discrimatn and homophobia existed.