One gay man's take on The Power of the Dog - Queer Forty

Contents:

• SAM ELLTT RIPS GAY THEM ‘POWER OF THE DOG,’ LLS A ‘PIECE OF S – – T’
• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH WEIGHS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS GAY ROL AHEAD OF ‘POWER OF THE DOG’ RELEASE
• IS PHIL GAY THE POWER OF THE DOG? NETFLIX MOVIE SPOILERS
• ONE GAY MAN’S TAKE ON THE POWER OF THE DOG
• GAY WBOYS? ‘POWER OF THE DOG’ DO NOT STAND ALONE GOG THERE
• ‘THE POWER OF THE DOG’ WAS INSPIRED BY THE TE STORY OF A GAY MAN IN THE 1920S
• IS PHIL GAY IN POWER OF THE DOG?

SAM ELLTT RIPS GAY THEM ‘POWER OF THE DOG,’ LLS A ‘PIECE OF S – – T’

Though the ultimate du, he is somehow not like the other is bee he is gay.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH WEIGHS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS GAY ROL AHEAD OF ‘POWER OF THE DOG’ RELEASE

Is , like so many prtig gay works, a tragic romance?

Extrapolate those lsons too much and you end up patently homophobic terrory—we should not assume that every abive oaf p for a Bron Henry. ”If only his character wasn’t bogged down by the need to humanize him by revealg halfway through that he is a eply closeted gay man. To say that is appropriate to have homosexual them or allns a Wtern is like sayg p movi shouldn’t have r chas.

IS PHIL GAY THE POWER OF THE DOG? NETFLIX MOVIE SPOILERS

Take another look at the source material, say that is appropriate to have homosexual them or allns a Wtern is like sayg p movi shouldn’t have r Burbank is a man who tnts and hounds his brother and sister--law so relentlsly that they are aaid of him even when he’s not around.

But fact, the film mostly rerc the longstandg and problematic trope of the tortured homosexual, which only further intifi L. (The fact that Cumberbatch’s last big Osr-worthy movie, “The Imatn Game, ” volved him playg a eply reprsed gay man, this se forced to unrgo chemil stratn when he is found out, do not help. Phil’s anger, and his clawg lonels, take on a new light when ’s revealed he is a closeted gay man.

ONE GAY MAN’S TAKE ON THE POWER OF THE DOG

But The Power of the Dog is ls about homosexualy than is about the specific lonels that toxic masculy breeds.

Wtern film in Sam Elltt is beg sp-roasted onle after railg on Jane Campn’s 12-time Osr-nomated drama “The Power of the Dog” for cludg “allns to homosexualy” and other LGBTQ them. For the uniated, the much-praised “The Power of the Dog” stars Benedict Cumberbatch as a closeted gay rancher 1925 Montana who’s abive toward his new sister--law and her son. There’s all the allns to homosexualy throughout the f – – kg movie.

“This is some barely even tryg to hi homophobic, misogynistic, xenophobic s – – t, ” they add. “Which is that wboy culture hasn’t changed one b and is still rife wh toxic masculy/homophobia.

GAY WBOYS? ‘POWER OF THE DOG’ DO NOT STAND ALONE GOG THERE

Another wonred why Elltt hated the LGBTQ them “Dog” when he apparently loved Ang Lee’s 2005 flick “Brokeback Mounta, ” another pneerg wboy movie that was rife wh gay them. Sam Elltt is chastisg Jane Campn’s Osr-nomated film “The Power of the Dog” for s “allns to homosexualy, ” llg a “piece of s–t.

“The whole homosexual thg was tertg — they stepped over the le — but Kathare and I both looked at and thought, ‘What’s the big al? Benedict Cumberbatch plays a sexually reprsed wboy the 1920s – when homosexualy was wily stigmatized and many plac, crimalized – the upg Netflix film “The Power of the Dog.

Hollywood has for s st actors heterosexual relatnships gay rol. Some of the creators volved those films, like director Todd Hayn of “Carol” and Lu Guadagno, who directed “Call Me By Your Name, ” which also starred straight actors, are gay themselv. The film “Moonlight, ” which followed a gay Black man three stag of his life, was celebrated for sisteppg queer stereotyp, though starred some straight actors.

‘THE POWER OF THE DOG’ WAS INSPIRED BY THE TE STORY OF A GAY MAN IN THE 1920S

Whereas stg cisgenr actors transgenr rol has recently fallen out of popular practice – LGBTQ media advocy anizatn GLAAD says stg this way “perpetuat this belief that trans people aren’t real” – there is not a siar nsens when to actors playg gay characters. (The anizatn didn’t immediately rpond to CNN’s requt for ment regardg straight actors portrayg gay characters.

Vany Fair cric Richard Lawson wrote a review of the 2020 film “The Prom” that there’s no “hard and fast le about who should play gay men on screen.

IS PHIL GAY IN POWER OF THE DOG?

” Nuance, though, is necsary for any actor playg a gay character, he said. That’s part of why Jam Corn’s stg “The Prom” as a flamboyant fad Broadway star was wily cricized: Corn, who is married to a woman, played to stereotyp of gay men, acrdg to many crics, who said his performance was “sultg” and lled him “offensively misst. “In general, y, I wish more gay actors got the chance to tell our stori, embody our people, rather than straight men gettg aclas for beg brave – or cheers for beg sassy, ” Lawson wrote his review of the film.