Contents:
- GAY CHARACTERS DON’T NEED TO HOOK UP JT BEE THEY’RE GAY, HANDSOME DEVIL POTS OUT
- HANDSOME DEVIL
- ‘HANDSOME DEVIL’ IS THE KD OF MOVIE JOHN HUGH WOULD’VE MA IF HE WERE IRISH, GAY, AND VERY INTO RUGBY
GAY CHARACTERS DON’T NEED TO HOOK UP JT BEE THEY’RE GAY, HANDSOME DEVIL POTS OUT
The rult, “Handsome Devil, ” turned out pretty spectacular, blowg dienc away at TIFF wh the heartbreakg story of Ned, a gay, Smhs-obssed who velops an tense iendship wh his boardg school roommate. Also, although I loved Amerin high school edi such as the films of John Hugh, the homophobia them is a ltle hard to endure 2017, so is fun to update that sub-genre. I was gay, and I loved sport and found hard to rencile what I thought were two patible aspects of myself.
In my life, I have had many gay iends that I’ve never wanted to sleep wh, and who have never wanted to sleep wh me, and never felt like much of a sacrifice to eher party. When me to makg my feature Handsome Devil, I was termed that the story would n along the tram l of a buddy edy, bee even if you believe both the young leads are gay, or not straight (by no means a certa thg, self), then the fullt exprsn of that iendship, of homosexual iendship, of any iendship is… iendship. Why n’t someone be gay a story like that?
Leavg asi the hegemony of the romantic narrative of every hue, the buddy movie remas the least vigorated subgenre of all—sadly still powered more often than not by childish and rctive gay panic which, way more than beg offensive, is jt dreary. If homosexualy is an inty, then only part (an important part, but only a part) of that inty revolv around sexual activy. So why n’t someone be gay a buddy edy?
HANDSOME DEVIL
I loved the sensatnal Other People so much bee of the thentic, “felt” subplot of the iendship between John Early’s and Jse Plemons’ gay characters. I always accepted that this film would be known by those walkg to the cema as “the gay gby player film” and wrg a screenplay ’s val to know what rmatn isn’t yours to whhold.
What would a negative oute here offer that hadn’t already been offered by the bleak, trmatic gay narrativ of s past? ‹ PrevExprsn of Intert: Trans equaly Mri through universal human rights lens Next ›Vancy: Freelance HIV tterHandsome Devil is a 2016 Irish edy-drama film which revolv around Ned a gay teenager who ostriacised at Wood Hill llege which tolerat a homophobic culture.
‘HANDSOME DEVIL’ IS THE KD OF MOVIE JOHN HUGH WOULD’VE MA IF HE WERE IRISH, GAY, AND VERY INTO RUGBY
Ltle do the three know about each other’s secret – that the three are gay – navigatg a homophobic night, after celebratg the team’s victory, Ned fds Conor enterg to a gay bar.. And at the gay bar, Conor se Mr.
Sherry wh his gay partner. Versns of many of the key elements Irish wrer-director John Butler’s Handsome Devil are faiar, om the geek pariah to the secret gay jock, the spiratnal English teacher to the homophobic gby ach, right down to the sports match as a tt of outsir self-affirmatn. A scrawny, self-styled 16-year-old rebel wh over-dyed red hair and a room rated wh David Bowie lyrics and Da Von Tee pups, Ned’s solary nature and ambiguo sexualy make him a target for gay slurs om his tribal classmat.
And if you happen to be gay, the suatn at the movi don’t get much better. But generally, the plight of the weird and/or gay high school boy is eher treated wh an overabundance of sensivy, or a cel and plete lack of . If you’re cravg a film where the central outsirs are three-dimensnal human begs— sometim heroic and sometim awful— and if you’ve wonred what kd of movie John Hugh would have ma if he were Irish, gay and very to gby, Handsome Devil has you vered.