Adrian Florido speaks wh actor Franz Rogowski about the movie "Great Freedom," where a German man is imprisoned for beg gay.
Contents:
- IN 'GREAT FREEDOM,' A MAN IS EED OM THE NAZIS, AND RE-IMPRISONED FOR BEG GAY
- HANS CHRISTIAN ANRSEN WAS A GAY VIRG
- THE LTLE MERMAID'S ORIGAL STORY IS REALLY ABOUT GAY LOVE AND REJECTN
- ‘GREAT FREEDOM’ AND THE LONG SHADOW OF AN ANTI-GAY LAW GERMANY
IN 'GREAT FREEDOM,' A MAN IS EED OM THE NAZIS, AND RE-IMPRISONED FOR BEG GAY
“I’m que sure primary school, he didn’t know he was gay or whatever, but he never really liked playg football or soccer, ” she says.
(Today, he is openly gay and was a vol supporter of last year’s Marriage Equaly Y vote. [Inglour Basterds] Hans Landa is a gay man, and his "Jew Hunter" persona is his way of hidg om the Nazis. “This Pri Month, gay and transgenr artists will pay homage to some of the LGBTQ+ characters habg a galaxy far, far away a special le of variant ic book vers.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANRSEN WAS A GAY VIRG
“If they n get around to nfirmg him as mlm before his tv seri wrten by a gay man […] uld be big”. If they n get around to nfirmg him as mlm before his tv seri wrten by a gay man?? This is alludg to the fact Simien is an openly gay man, havg shared his sexualy durg the 2014 Sundance Film Ftival.
In 'Great Freedom, ' a man is eed om the Nazis, and re-imprisoned for beg gay. Adrian Florido speaks wh actor Franz Rogowski about the movie "Great Freedom, " where a German man is imprisoned for beg gay. Some gay men sent to ncentratn mps Nazi-era Germany were eed and sent right back to prison after the war end.
FLORIDO: What was about this role of a man imprisoned solely for beg gay that appealed to you? ROGOWSKI: I didn't thk that 's a gay story. At the start of the movie, Viktor is disgted by Hans's homosexualy.
THE LTLE MERMAID'S ORIGAL STORY IS REALLY ABOUT GAY LOVE AND REJECTN
And to ny the prence of diverse voic and fac on-screen, ni the efforts and talents of diverse voic behd the screen, cludg que a number of LGBT artists who ntributed to Disney’s repertoire such as gay and Jewish songwrer Howard Ashman, the poser behd the animated versns of The Ltle Mermaid and Bety and the Beast, and Andreas Deja, a proment character signer. HAMBURG – Danish fairy tale wrer Hans Christian Anrsen was gay but may never have acted on his homosexual tennci, acrdg to a new bgraphy published to ci wh the 200th anniversary of Anrsen’s birth.
The book, which will be published English April, stat that Anrsen had fatuatns wh both men and women but uld not brg himself to overe societal strictur agast homosexualy even if he uld not brg himself to marry a woman. Many of the fairy tal may be read as gay allegori, and some are clearly tobgraphil. It was not until 1893 that his sexualy was publicly discsed, when a newspaper hted that he may have been a homosexual.
‘GREAT FREEDOM’ AND THE LONG SHADOW OF AN ANTI-GAY LAW GERMANY
In 1901, an article Magn Hirschfeld’s Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle Zwischenstufen also discsed him as a homosexual. The Ltle Mermaid's Origal Story Is Really About Gay Love and Rejectn. However, Disney's animated movie is self an adaptatn and actually has several differenc when pared to the origal story, which scholarly terpretatns have analyzed may actually be a metaphor for unrequed gay love.
Let's take a look at Anrsen's fairy tale and the symbolism embedd the story, and see how uld very well reflect a gay thor feelg out of place a heterosexual world. Some bgraphers – cludg Jackie Wullschlager and Alison Prce – are nvced that Anrsen’s of homosexualy. The romance plot they renstct th rists a Victorian norm the genr of Scharf’s lovers, but other ways is “legible the terms of the lerary and cultural romance plots that make agatn for gay marriage so pellg for many” (Michie and Warhol 111).