Why is Hollywood sufferg another gay panic attack? | Sexualy | The Guardian

Contents:

• WHY IS HOLLYWOOD SUFFERG ANOTHER GAY PANIC ATTACK?
• IS WILL FERRELL GAY [SEXUALY AND DATG PARTNER REVEALED]
• SXSW: WILL FERRELL’S ‘GET HARD’ STIRS CONTROVERSY WH GAY, RACIAL JOK
• IS WILL FERRELL GAY?
• WILL FERRELL IS NOT APOLOGIZG FOR THE ANTIGAY JOK IN HIS CRAPPY NEW MOVIE

WHY IS HOLLYWOOD SUFFERG ANOTHER GAY PANIC ATTACK?

But reviews have been mostly toxic, wh Variety llg out “some of the uglit gay-panic humour to befoul a stud release recent memory” and The Playlist labellg “more offensive than jt about anythg we’ve seen lately. The film’s unarguably wretched low pot arriv when Hart’s character tak Ferrell to a gay bnch “hookup spot” where he tells him he’ll need to learn to perform oral sex to make his time prison easier.

While beg eyed up by every gay man around them, Hart rms Ferrell of the relative ease of approachg a gay stranger for sex, bee “that’s what they do”.

IS WILL FERRELL GAY [SEXUALY AND DATG PARTNER REVEALED]

Meanwhile, Hart is approached by a predatory olr gay man who, even after fdg out Hart’s heterosexualy, ref to take no for an, there’s an important distctn to make here. The fear of rape is obvly legimate and a man’s fear of beg raped by another man while prison is also unrstandable and by no means homophobic.

It punctuat every other le of dialogue and not even particularly ventive ways (the script is sentially multiple, exhstive variatns on “you’re gog to get raped”) film team review Get Hard GuardianBut this fear of rape turns to somethg far more sid when extends to a general fear of gay sex and then a fear of homosexualy general.

We go past the dick jok and fd an unrlyg repulsn (moral of the story: gay sex is ewwww gross) that driv the film and livers an unfortable brand of humour that has been largely absent, or at least tempered, recent stars have been forced to fend the jok durg prs for the film, varly unsuccsful ways. ” Jtifyg the reactns on screen as ditive of what the two, or many straight men, would really thk only go so far as a ver, pecially when the film cis to clu, and make an unholy ms of, gay characters as ’s admirer the gay bnch scene crops up later, as a piful attempt to show the film’s acceptance of gay characters, when Hart offers relatnship advice over the phone.

SXSW: WILL FERRELL’S ‘GET HARD’ STIRS CONTROVERSY WH GAY, RACIAL JOK

Humour rived om gay panic has progrsed to the bromance edy, typified by films such as I Love You, Man and Superbad, where straight male characters learn to be fortable at exprsg emotn wh one another, whout fear of beg misterpreted. Last year’s 22 Jump Street went one step further wh a leadg duo whose timate iendship rembled a relatnship, and even clud a scene where Channg Tatum chastised a bad guy for g the word “faggot” as dated homophobia Get Hard is surprisgly old-fashned but sadly not an isolated stance, even ntemporary films.

IS WILL FERRELL GAY?

Michael Bay’s back talogue, up to and cludg last year’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon, is full of badly judged gay jok (check out this hio montage) and this year’s first Kev Hart edy The Weddg Rger was also packed wh uneasy moments (The AV Club’s AA Dowd lled “a 100-mute gay joke”) weekend, Get Hard is predicted to be a big h wh an timated $40m gross the US spe a llectn of toxic reviews.

If is as succsful as analysts suggt, , and the relative lack of non-stereotypil gay characters mastream cema, mak an tertg parison to the treatment of homosexualy on TV. In the US, two of the season’s biggt new work shows, Empire and How to Get Away wh Murr, both feature central non-clichéd gay men while a study showed that the number of LGBT characters on TV is growg.

Many believe that Will Ferrell is gay sce he claimed he is sred of gog to jail and beg asslted.

WILL FERRELL IS NOT APOLOGIZG FOR THE ANTIGAY JOK IN HIS CRAPPY NEW MOVIE

Is Will Farrell Gay? As such, the actor has strongly addrsed his fltfrs and bunked the belief of beg gay. ” Although the 55-year-old received praise for his actg skills, his fans uldn’t hold back the backlash thkg he was gay.