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BT 10 GAY RAPE SCENE MOVIE
"Get Hard" isn't the only movie that revels gay panic and anti-LGBT hysteria. * gay rape mainstream one *
Sometim a movie reeks of homophobia (See: that ol' heart-warmer “Cisg”) and sometim 's jt a uple of moments a film that feel mean-spired to the LGBT muny (“Weddg Crashers, ” etc.
While his father the Kg is obvly a paragon of celty, the scene which he sts Phillip out of a wdow to hurt his son is a vlent knock at the homosexual relatnship, and was shot such a sparse manner that practilly played for lghs, sensive to Edward II's loss.
In rponse to the accatn that the film is homophobic and transphobic, Lee said, “The role of Kimmy was never meant to be a role mol, or someone that reprents the muny as a whole.
PARTY DG ED TO RAPE, FILM ATOSE GAY MEN: UK DOCUMENTARY
* gay rape mainstream one *
William Friedk had to cut a legendary 40 mut of footage om “Cisg” before uld get a pass om the MPAA, but that was mostly graphic sexualy and not the non-stop strg of slurs and rtoonish pictns of what the filmmakers tried to emphasize was a look at one subset of gay culture, but not the entire culture. There's ltle doubt that the hostile reactns om characters the film are perd-appropriate and shouldn't be taken as the POV of the film, but the film's POV on both the leather bar subculture, and on any gay characters who exist outsi the subculture ss somewhere between disgted and horrified. Well, here go those homosexuals aga, preyg on the irristible Vce Vghn the middle of the night, strokg his ch, and announcg they've ma sexual art about him.
“Weddg Crashers” is proudly lowbrow through and through, but this moment is still one of the most annoyg moments of “ic” homophobia the past and a half.
But 'd be equally silly to ny that a goodly percentage of the 115 precedg mut — Y, this movie is obscenely long — are mostly about Kev Jam and Adam Sandler's characters makg clear that orr for Chuck and Larry to do some silly thg volvg life surance, they have to lower themselv the most huiatg way they n image, by pretendg to be a gay uple. What follows is a strg of “Beg gay is gross” and “Havg people thk you're gay is gross” farce, punctuated by “If you're gay, you n get ultra-close to hot women” icks, followed by “But really this is a great thg, even if straight guys might thk 's gross.