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?
HANDSOME DEVIL
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.
‘HANDSOME DEVIL’ IS THE KD OF MOVIE JOHN HUGH WOULD’VE MA IF HE WERE IRISH, GAY, AND VERY INTO RUGBY
So why n’t someone be gay a buddy edy? 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.