Contents:
- GAY CHARACTERS DON’T NEED TO HOOK UP JT BEE THEY’RE GAY, HANDSOME DEVIL POTS OUT
- ‘HANDSOME DEVIL’ IS THE KD OF MOVIE JOHN HUGH WOULD’VE MA IF HE WERE IRISH, GAY, AND VERY INTO RUGBY
- ‘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
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.
‘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. 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?
‘HANDSOME DEVIL’ IS THE KD OF MOVIE JOHN HUGH WOULD’VE MA IF HE WERE IRISH, GAY, AND VERY INTO RUGBY
The other boys, enraged by Fnn’s artistic leangs, tease him for assumed homosexualy, but we soon spect that is the sporty Conor who may be gay. Butler, who attend Blackrock College, amgly referenc the way tnts get hand down through generatns and, like everyday aphorisms, eventually lose their pot of of the boys n expla why they make a sort of nasal “Ewww” noise when bullyg supposedly gay lleagu. ‹ 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.
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.
Unlike Ned, however, the openly gay wrer-director is also a big sports fan, and said he stggled wh what he felt were “two patible aspects” of his personaly growg up. Dpe tacklg teen bullyg, homophobia and other ser them, “Handsome Devil” nclus on an upbeat note for both Ned and Conor ― a fact of which Butler is particularly proud.