'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
- JOAQU PHOENIX’S NEXT PROJECT WILL BE AN NC-17 GAY LOVE STORY
- TODD HAYN’ JOAQU PHOENIX-LED GAY ROMANCE MOVIE WILL BE RATED NC-17
- JOAQU PHOENIX TO STAR GAY ROMANCE MOVIE, PHED FOR NC-17 RATG
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
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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. 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?
JOAQU PHOENIX’S NEXT PROJECT WILL BE AN NC-17 GAY LOVE STORY
“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. "While a fal NC-17 ratg n spell paltry sal at the box office, the whiff of a prelimary NC-17 ratg – wh s promise of sex and vlence -- n crease tert a chronologil orr, ABC prents some of the most popular films to ever earn the NC-17 ratg:'Midnight Cowboy'Released 1969, before NC-17 beme an official MPAA ratg, "Midnight Cowboy, " starrg Dt Hoffman and John Voigt, beme the first X-rated film to earn an Amy film, which follows the story of a stgglg male htler and his nman iend stgglg to get by New York Cy, earned Osrs for Bt Picture, Bt Director and Bt Adapted film, which clus a scene referencg gay sex, earned an X ratg and opened to limed release 1969.
Bent (1997) $496, 059Set 1930s Germany, this harrowg film featur a gay Jew who is sent to a Nazi ncentratn has an approval ratg of 73 percent on Rotten Tomato and won Bt Feature Film the Toro Internatnal Gay & Lbian Film Ftival 1998. 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. It’s a gay love story set 1930s L.
TODD HAYN’ JOAQU PHOENIX-LED GAY ROMANCE MOVIE WILL BE RATED NC-17
The Los Angel Tim reports that Passag, about a gay uple (Franz Rogowski and Ben Whishaw, a.
JOAQU PHOENIX TO STAR GAY ROMANCE MOVIE, PHED FOR NC-17 RATG
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. It’s a gay love story set 1930s LA. (Image cred: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)Bent (1997) - Clive Owen, Ian McKellenAfter beg disvered and arrted by the Gtapo Nazi Germany, Max (Clive Owen), a proud gay man, is sent on a perilo journey to the Dach ncentratn mp where he is subjected to scribable horrors while still beg able to fd love.
The leadg actrs Ale Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux brg a realism and thenticy to the film, which n often be lackg Hollywood films about homosexual relatnships. The leads, Glen Barry and Stt Neal, are perfectly st their rol and each brgs a unique perspective to growg up gay that environment. Eric and his iend Maggie get jobs at an amement park, where they beiend their lbian boss, played by the hilar and unrrated Lea DeLaria and a gay llege stunt nam Rod, played by Anrson Gabrych, who repris his role another Todd Stephen’s film Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!
Through this relatnship he learns to accept himself as a gay man and learns where and wh who he n fd acceptance.