Contents:
- FOXTCHER’S GAY SUBTEXT BRGS “ROUGH TRA” TO THE MOVI
- MARK SCHULTZ ATTACKS 'GAY RELATNSHIP' WRTLG BPIC FOXTCHER
FOXTCHER’S GAY SUBTEXT BRGS “ROUGH TRA” TO THE MOVI
In the film, ’s heavily implied that he and his brother’s killer had a homosexual relatnship and, when Dave saw the fal cut of the film, he explod on Twter, wrg to the director:. Foxtcher’s Gay Subtext Brgs “Rough Tra” to the Movi.
To unrstand the disfort that many gay viewers are undoubtedly feelg screengs of Foxtcher—the dreary b of Osr ba jt out om director Bent Miller—you need to unrstand a few thgs about gay archetyp and how they have historilly functned. This is important, bee I nnot thk of another recent movie that so clearly reli on homo-anx, dog-whistle shorthand for both s characterizatn and plot; and yet, save for Armond Whe’s sthg piece OUT, the film’s largely posive reviews have avoid real examatn of the issue. To be fair, some crics have wonred aloud about the film’s “hts” at homoeroticism, but they have ultimately shied away om gog further.
Those elements are probably there somewhere, but ’s the gay subtext— this se, the age-old story of a wealthy, effete fairy gog after rough tra—that feels most central, most necsary for the movie to make whatever narrative sense do. But then, none of the read as crypto-gay eher.
MARK SCHULTZ ATTACKS 'GAY RELATNSHIP' WRTLG BPIC FOXTCHER
Schultz wr his memoir that “I had my spicns [that du Pont might be gay], but I never observed … anythg that would e me to say he was a homosexual. The term will be faiar to many gay rears, but perhaps ls so to others, so here’s a quick troductn. Tra is a slang word om Polari, a gay English dialect popular the 19th and early 20th centuri that’s mostly died out now save for a few exprsns.