Rocketman, the Elton John bpic that premiered at the Canne Film Ftival last night, is beg hailed as the first major stud film to pict a male gay sex scene on screen.
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- ROCKETMAN'S GAY SEX SCENE IS A BIG STEP THE RIGHT DIRECTN
- 'ROCKETMAN' STAR TARON EGERTON ON GAY STORYLE: 'I'M VERY PROUD THAT OUR MOVIE PUTS ONT AND CENTER'
- ROCKETMAN'S GAY MALE SEX SCEN ARE THE FIRST FROM A MAJOR STUD
- ROCKETMAN MAK HISTORY AS FIRST STUD FILM WH GAY SEX SCEN
ROCKETMAN'S GAY SEX SCENE IS A BIG STEP THE RIGHT DIRECTN
'Rocketman', the Elton John mil, tak a moment to reimage how gay sex uld be picted. Here's why the albe brief sex scene between Taron Egerton and Richard Madn, who play Elton John and John Reid, feels sensual, fun, and a big step the right directn for Hollywood. * gay scene rocketman *
There are dance numbers, Bryce Dallas Howard, floatg dienc, a leral rocket man, a much olr Bryce Dallas Howard who aged sudnly, and then, of urse, gay sex. If a mil about the life of Elton John were created whout any of the parts, wouldn't have been a proper mil about the man's 's that last part—the gay sex—that is important to discs.
Happened, or an unted chara of what gay sex might be.
Gay sex isn't somethg that Hollywood typilly picts, stead the dtry relegat to nuendos and close ups of men wcg pa.
'ROCKETMAN' STAR TARON EGERTON ON GAY STORYLE: 'I'M VERY PROUD THAT OUR MOVIE PUTS ONT AND CENTER'
"I actually thk the gay muny will be que surprised by que how gay feels," the Welsh actor said of the film. * gay scene rocketman *
But the Elton John mil tak a moment to reimage how gay sex uld be picted.
It often across like a straight man directg two straight men a gay sex scene.
And yet, Rocketman manag to pict a realistic-enough sex scene whout turng the act of terurse or the gayns behd to a villa. It may not be the first time a film stud has featured a gay sex scene, but do feel like the first time a major motn picture stud took the time to make look like the kd of sex you'd actually want to have. Upon hearg that Rocketman’s gay ntent had been removed for the Rsian market, Elton and the filmmakers released a sternly word statement that read: “That the lol distributor has eded out certa scen, nyg the dience the opportuny to see the film as was tend is a sad reflectn of the divid world we still live and how n still be so celly unacceptg of the love between two people.
ROCKETMAN'S GAY MALE SEX SCEN ARE THE FIRST FROM A MAJOR STUD
Taron Egerton rpond to claims that Paramount attempted to cut out a gay sex scene om the Elton John bpic "Rocketman." * gay scene rocketman *
” And while Egerton prais BoRap — explag that that movie was tend to tell Queen’s story, not jt Freddie Mercury’s — he says of Rocketman, “I'm very proud of the fact that our movie puts [homosexualy] ont and center, bee I thk 's a big part of Elton's history. ”While Rocketman has weathered s own accatns of straightwashg due to s stg of Egerton, who is heterosexual, the leadg role, Egerton says for the most part, “When I speak to journalists who belong to the gay publitns, they've been very, very warm, and very appreciative. "I actually thk the gay muny will be que surprised by que how gay feels, " the Welsh actor said of the film.
I actually thk the gay muny will be que surprised by que how gay feels. Though the sger squashed mors that he was gay earlier this month, he had no hang-ups when me to filmg timate scen wh a male partner: “I’m not someone who is remotely perturbed by male timacy. Taron Egerton, who will play Elton John the forthg bpic “Rocketman, ” rpond to claims that Paramount attempted to cut out a gay sex scene om the bpic.
Taron Egerton Calls Paramount’s Attempt to Cut Out ‘Rocketman’ Gay Sex Scene ‘Nonsense’.
ROCKETMAN MAK HISTORY AS FIRST STUD FILM WH GAY SEX SCEN
<i>Rocketman</i>, though at least acknowledg the queer nuanc of Elton John’s life, shows how limed Hollywood’s approach to gay celebry stori still is. * gay scene rocketman *
While there have been a few chaste sex scen between men Osr-nomated movi through the years cludg Brokeback Mounta and Call Me by Your Name, the Elton John bpic Rocketman om Paramount is the first major stud film to tly pict gay male sex, acrdg to The Hollywood film stars Taron Edgerton as the inic glam rocker and Richard Madn (Bodyguard) as John's manager and first male lover, John Reid. But he might as well be talkg about the well-worn rock star bpic formula, which recent years is expandg — fally — to clu gay unprecented succs of last year’s Queen movie Bohemian Rhapsody, now the most profable bpic history, seemed to whet the mic dtry’s — and Hollywood’s — appet for the genre.
Rhapsody, which Fletcher also directed (after takg over om Bryan Sger) was able to be a jebox mil wh a celebry gay man’s story, told wh jt the right amount of gravas — and queer tragedy — to give an angle but also keep mastream dienc fortable.
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(That was rated PG-13 and had no gay sex helped ensure this. The film generally manag to better toe the le between the kd of overly broad sentimentaly required of all bpics and the specificy of John’s story as a gay man.
But the ways which this movie do echo Rhapsody ht at how limed mastream Hollywood’s approach to gay celebry stori still is. But the fished movie is fact a largely Disneyfied versn of his story, spe a much-touted gay sex scene. The are the kd of specific experienc that shape many gay men’s liv, and are still rarely seen movi.
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Dpe all the hubbub about keepg sex scen and dgs, the film, much like Bohemian Rhapsody, barely skims the surface of John’s relatnships wh men, or how he stggled to fd a functnal relatnship as a gay man. Some crics have suggted that amg his marriage to Blel as a nial of his gay inty is a failure of bisexual reprentatn.