Openly gay director Roland Emmerich talked up a same-sex uple his big budget sci-fi sequel, but why is the film so embarrassgly y about them?
Contents:
- IS BRENT SPER MARRIED? INSIGHT HIS WIFE, GAY, FAY, NET WORTH
- WHY INPENNCE DAY: RURGENCE'S GAY UPLE ARE NIED A CLOSE ENUNTER
- GAY 'STAR TREK' CHARACTER PROVOK POLARIZG RPONSE
- IS BRENT SPER MARRIED? INSIGHT HIS WIFE, GAY, FAY, NET WORTH
IS BRENT SPER MARRIED? INSIGHT HIS WIFE, GAY, FAY, NET WORTH
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WHY INPENNCE DAY: RURGENCE'S GAY UPLE ARE NIED A CLOSE ENUNTER
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They’re both openly gay director Roland Emmerich talked up the sequel to his 1996 alien vasn h, he remarked that we would see a same-sex relatnship on screen, a distct rary the world of the Hollywood blockbter. We have a gay uple the film, ” he told the Hollywood Reporter 2015. You start small and then you get bigger and bigger and bigger, and one day you have a gay character as the lead and nobody will wonr at no more.
Any reference was entirely absent om all publicy materials and as the film progrsed, I was stgglg to fe any of the relatnships as gay. I even started to fd sexual tensn between the aforementned warlord and a geeky acuntant given the repeated alien-killg referenc of “gettg them the back” st and director of Inpennce Day: Rurgence, book-end by the film’s gay uple, played by John Storey and Brent Sper.
GAY 'STAR TREK' CHARACTER PROVOK POLARIZG RPONSE
That’s, I wasn’t expectg graphic gay sex a film aimed at fai, but the embarrassg Hays Co yns of all meant that one uld still watch the film and jt see them as really good iends. Emmerich’s handlg of gay characters was shaky, even a film solely about gay characters, and he faced cricism for referrg to his twky lead as “straight-actg”, a phrase loathed by many for s suggtn that masculy is a performed tra for gay also wouldn’t be the first film to clu gay characters but then shy away om anythg that’s “too gay”. While Jonathan Demme’s Aids drama Philalphia might have served plds for broachg an issue that most were too sred to go near, the clost we had to affectn between the lead gay uple was a b of dancg.
Fan fictn and Twter petns have yet to rult a blockbter that viat om heteronormativy and gay characters blockbters have remaed virtually visible (the recent onle excement over what appeared to be a lbian uple Fdg Dory turned out to be predictably for nothg).
IS BRENT SPER MARRIED? INSIGHT HIS WIFE, GAY, FAY, NET WORTH
I’m not askg for Le Skywalker to pse Jedi trag to liver a speech about gay rights, or for a clumsily serted scene of Indiana Jon showg off his latt fd a gay bar jt to tick a box, but given that blockbters are naturally filled wh jeopardy and mographic-pleasg romantic rnns, is a same-sex kiss or clear statement of love that much to ask for?
If the gay uple Inpennce Day: Rurgence had been straight, we would have known this was the se. If we n believe an alien queen rampagg across Nevada, then surely we n believe a gay man sharg a small, but meangful, kiss wh his partner. Takei, who me out publicly as gay 2005 and has been an outspoken proponent of LGBT rights for s, told the Hollywood Reporter that while he is "lighted that there’s a gay character, " the alteratn of Sulu's sexual inty is a "twistg of ['Star Trek' creator Gene Rodnberry's] creatn, to which he put so much thought.