Is Foxtcher homophobic? Gay subtext and rough tra the wrtlg film.

Contents:

• MARK SCHULTZ ATTACKS 'GAY RELATNSHIP' WRTLG BPIC FOXTCHER
• FOXTCHER’S GAY SUBTEXT BRGS “ROUGH TRA” TO THE MOVI
• ‘FOXTCHER’ SUBJECT MARK SCHULTZ RENTS CRICISMS: ‘I WAS TEMPORARILY INSANE’ APOLOGY TOURTHE OLYMPIC CHAMPN WRTLER VOICED HIS SUPPORT FOR THE OSR-NOMATED MOVIE ON TWTER SATURDAY NIGHT. HE’D PREVLY LASHED OUT AGAST S GAY THEM.MARLOW STERNUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 12:24PM EDT / PUBLISHED JAN. 18, 2015 1:28AM EST COURTY TIFFFIVE OSR NOMATNS WILL, SEEMS, BRG A SE TO ANYONE’S FACE.ON THURSDAY MORNG, BENT MILLER’S BPIC FOXTCHER SURPRISED MOST AWARDS PUNDS AND RECEIVED A TOTAL OF 5 OSR NODS, CLUDG BT DIRECTOR, BT ACTOR (STEVE CARELL), AND BT SUPPORTG ACTOR (MARK RUFFALO), BT ORIGAL SCREENPLAY, AND BT MAKP AND HAIRSTYLG (PRUMABLY FOR CARELL’S PROSTHETIC SCHNOZ). AND AFTER TWO DAYS OF LETTG THE POSIVE NEWS SK , THE FILM’S SUBJECT, OLYMPIC CHAMPN WRTLER MARK SCHULTZ, HAS CID TO RENT HIS STHG CRICISMS OF THE MOVIE AND SG S PRAIS ON TWTER, CLAIMG HE WAS SUFFERG OM A BOUT OF TEMPORARY SANY. FOR THE UNIATED, FOXTCHER TELLS THE REAL-LIFE TALE OF MARK SCHULTZ (CHANNG TATUM), AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN WRTLER WHO’S BARELY SCRAPG BY, LIVERG SPEECH TO LOL HIGH SCHOOLS FOR TWENTY BUCKS A POP. HE SOON TCH THE EYE OF JOHN DU PONT (CARELL), AN ECCENTRIC LNAIRE OM AN ARISTOCRATIC AMERIN FAY WHO TAK THE WRTLER UNR HIS WG, ALLOWG HIM TO STAY AT A LAVISH GUT HOE ON HIS PROPERTY, TRA HIS STATE-OF-THE-ART WRTLG FACILI, AND SERVE AS THE RE OF HIS WRTLG SQUAD, “TEAM FOXTCHER.” IF APPEARS TO GOOD TO BE TE, IS. DU PONT’S ALREADY BIZARRE BEHAVR SOON SPIRALS OUT OF NTROL, AND HE BE WARY OF SCHULTZ’S CLOSE RELATNSHIP WH HIS OLR BROTHER, OLYMPIC WRTLG CHAMP DAVE SCHULTZ (RUFFALO). BACK ON DECEMBER 30, MARK SCHULTZ LASHED OUT AT MILLER’S FILM, CLAIMG PATED HIM A BAD LIGHT. HE SAID HE WAS “NOT EMOTNALLY AGILE,” “NEVER LOOKED UP TO DU PONT,” AND “IF DU PONT HAD EVER SLAPPED ME I’D HAVE KNOCKED HIS HEAD OFF.” BUT HIS BIGGT GRIPE SEEMED TO BE THE HOMOEROTIC NATURE OF THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN HE AND DU PONT, WHICH WAS POTED OUT BY NUMERO FILM CRICS. “THE PERSONALI AND RELATNSHIPS BETWEEN THE CHARACTERS THE FILM ARE PRIMARILY FICTN AND SOMEWHAT SULTG. LEAVG THE DIENCE WH A FEELG THAT SOMEHOW THERE ULD HAVE BEEN A SEXUAL RELATNSHIP BETWEEN DUPONT AND I IS A SICKENG AND SULTG LIE,” SCHULTZ WROTE ON FACEBOOK. “I TOLD BENT MILLER TO CUT THAT SCENE OUT AND HE SAID WAS TO GIVE THE DIENCE THE FEELG THAT DUPONT WAS ENCROACHG ON YOUR PRIVACY AND PERSONAL SPACE. I WASN'T EXPLIC SO I DIDN'T HAVE A PROBLEM WH . THEN AFTER READG 3 OR 4 REVIEWS TERPRETG SEXUALLY, AND JEOPARDIZG MY LEGACY, THEY NEED TO HAVE A PRS NFERENCE TO CLEAR THE AIR, OR I WILL,” HE ADD.HE ALSO REFERRED TO MILLER AS A “PUNK,” “PSY,” AND “LIAR” ON TWTER. MICHAEL DICANDILO, A WRTLER FOR TEAM FOXTCHER OM 1986-1988, RROBORATED SCHULTZ’S IAL PROBLEMS WH THE FILM. IN AN TERVIEW WH THE DAILY BEAST, DICANDILO SAID THE SCENE WHICH DU PONT SLAPS SCHULTZ “NEVER WOULD HAVE HAPPENED A LN YEARS,” THAT SCHULTZ WAS MERELY “TOLERATG” DU PONT TO W CHAMPNSHIPS, THAT SCHULTZ “WAS NOT A AGILE GUY,” AND THAT “THE SEXUAL OVERTON THE MOVIE ARE AWFUL.” SCHULTZ WENT OUT OF HIS WAY TO PRAISE DICANDILO’S ACUNT ON TWTER.AFTER THE AMY AWARD NOMATNS WERE ANNOUNCED, SCHULTZ ALREADY SEEMED TO BE CHANGG HIS TUNE, TWEETG THE FOLLOWG MSAG PRAISE OF THE ST AND CREW OF FOXTCHER (TATUM, BY THE WAY, WAS NOT NOMATED): MARLOW STERN

MARK SCHULTZ ATTACKS 'GAY RELATNSHIP' WRTLG BPIC FOXTCHER

Mark Schultz mounted an angry social media asslt on Miller after crics reviewg the film suggted there may have been homosexual unrton to the relatnship between the on-screen Schultz, played by Channg Tatum, and multi-lnaire wrtlg imprar John DuPont, played by Steve Carell. Fally, US journalist Christian Caryl lambasted send world war breaker drama The Imatn Game the New York Review of Books for pictg Bra’s Alan Turg, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, as a “dour Mr Spock who is disliked by all of his -workers” and “jt the sort of mythologil gay man, whey and weak, that homophob love to hate” ntradictn of what the cric said were historil facts.

Though Schultz says his book that many spected Du Pont might have been gay, he never saw any behavr to suggt so while livg at Foxtcher.

FOXTCHER’S GAY SUBTEXT BRGS “ROUGH TRA” TO THE MOVI

And then I read another article about this homosexualy, and I was like, ‘Sonofabch! ’ And I’m jt pissed the Guardian Film Show’s review of Foxtcher – vio Guardian“Fally, I read one article om the Washgton Tim, where the guy ma sound like Bent Miller tend to create this ia that a homosexual relatnship uld have existed between me and that lowlife pig. “I thought looked gay, ” he says.

“And he said, ‘No ’s not gay, ’s jt showg how Du Pont is gradually encroachg upon your privacy and personal space.

Foxtcher’s Gay Subtext Brgs “Rough Tra” to the Movi.

‘FOXTCHER’ SUBJECT MARK SCHULTZ RENTS CRICISMS: ‘I WAS TEMPORARILY INSANE’ APOLOGY TOURTHE OLYMPIC CHAMPN WRTLER VOICED HIS SUPPORT FOR THE OSR-NOMATED MOVIE ON TWTER SATURDAY NIGHT. HE’D PREVLY LASHED OUT AGAST S GAY THEM.MARLOW STERNUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 12:24PM EDT / PUBLISHED JAN. 18, 2015 1:28AM EST COURTY TIFFFIVE OSR NOMATNS WILL, SEEMS, BRG A SE TO ANYONE’S FACE.ON THURSDAY MORNG, BENT MILLER’S BPIC FOXTCHER SURPRISED MOST AWARDS PUNDS AND RECEIVED A TOTAL OF 5 OSR NODS, CLUDG BT DIRECTOR, BT ACTOR (STEVE CARELL), AND BT SUPPORTG ACTOR (MARK RUFFALO), BT ORIGAL SCREENPLAY, AND BT MAKP AND HAIRSTYLG (PRUMABLY FOR CARELL’S PROSTHETIC SCHNOZ). AND AFTER TWO DAYS OF LETTG THE POSIVE NEWS SK , THE FILM’S SUBJECT, OLYMPIC CHAMPN WRTLER MARK SCHULTZ, HAS CID TO RENT HIS STHG CRICISMS OF THE MOVIE AND SG S PRAIS ON TWTER, CLAIMG HE WAS SUFFERG OM A BOUT OF TEMPORARY SANY. FOR THE UNIATED, FOXTCHER TELLS THE REAL-LIFE TALE OF MARK SCHULTZ (CHANNG TATUM), AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN WRTLER WHO’S BARELY SCRAPG BY, LIVERG SPEECH TO LOL HIGH SCHOOLS FOR TWENTY BUCKS A POP. HE SOON TCH THE EYE OF JOHN DU PONT (CARELL), AN ECCENTRIC LNAIRE OM AN ARISTOCRATIC AMERIN FAY WHO TAK THE WRTLER UNR HIS WG, ALLOWG HIM TO STAY AT A LAVISH GUT HOE ON HIS PROPERTY, TRA HIS STATE-OF-THE-ART WRTLG FACILI, AND SERVE AS THE RE OF HIS WRTLG SQUAD, “TEAM FOXTCHER.” IF APPEARS TO GOOD TO BE TE, IS. DU PONT’S ALREADY BIZARRE BEHAVR SOON SPIRALS OUT OF NTROL, AND HE BE WARY OF SCHULTZ’S CLOSE RELATNSHIP WH HIS OLR BROTHER, OLYMPIC WRTLG CHAMP DAVE SCHULTZ (RUFFALO). BACK ON DECEMBER 30, MARK SCHULTZ LASHED OUT AT MILLER’S FILM, CLAIMG PATED HIM A BAD LIGHT. HE SAID HE WAS “NOT EMOTNALLY AGILE,” “NEVER LOOKED UP TO DU PONT,” AND “IF DU PONT HAD EVER SLAPPED ME I’D HAVE KNOCKED HIS HEAD OFF.” BUT HIS BIGGT GRIPE SEEMED TO BE THE HOMOEROTIC NATURE OF THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN HE AND DU PONT, WHICH WAS POTED OUT BY NUMERO FILM CRICS. “THE PERSONALI AND RELATNSHIPS BETWEEN THE CHARACTERS THE FILM ARE PRIMARILY FICTN AND SOMEWHAT SULTG. LEAVG THE DIENCE WH A FEELG THAT SOMEHOW THERE ULD HAVE BEEN A SEXUAL RELATNSHIP BETWEEN DUPONT AND I IS A SICKENG AND SULTG LIE,” SCHULTZ WROTE ON FACEBOOK. “I TOLD BENT MILLER TO CUT THAT SCENE OUT AND HE SAID WAS TO GIVE THE DIENCE THE FEELG THAT DUPONT WAS ENCROACHG ON YOUR PRIVACY AND PERSONAL SPACE. I WASN'T EXPLIC SO I DIDN'T HAVE A PROBLEM WH . THEN AFTER READG 3 OR 4 REVIEWS TERPRETG SEXUALLY, AND JEOPARDIZG MY LEGACY, THEY NEED TO HAVE A PRS NFERENCE TO CLEAR THE AIR, OR I WILL,” HE ADD.HE ALSO REFERRED TO MILLER AS A “PUNK,” “PSY,” AND “LIAR” ON TWTER. MICHAEL DICANDILO, A WRTLER FOR TEAM FOXTCHER OM 1986-1988, RROBORATED SCHULTZ’S IAL PROBLEMS WH THE FILM. IN AN TERVIEW WH THE DAILY BEAST, DICANDILO SAID THE SCENE WHICH DU PONT SLAPS SCHULTZ “NEVER WOULD HAVE HAPPENED A LN YEARS,” THAT SCHULTZ WAS MERELY “TOLERATG” DU PONT TO W CHAMPNSHIPS, THAT SCHULTZ “WAS NOT A AGILE GUY,” AND THAT “THE SEXUAL OVERTON THE MOVIE ARE AWFUL.” SCHULTZ WENT OUT OF HIS WAY TO PRAISE DICANDILO’S ACUNT ON TWTER.AFTER THE AMY AWARD NOMATNS WERE ANNOUNCED, SCHULTZ ALREADY SEEMED TO BE CHANGG HIS TUNE, TWEETG THE FOLLOWG MSAG PRAISE OF THE ST AND CREW OF FOXTCHER (TATUM, BY THE WAY, WAS NOT NOMATED): MARLOW STERN

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. 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.