As a genre, gay fictn has leapt om words to the screen wh enormo populary, but not beyond the censor’s reach.
Contents:
- 6 TIM THE UNTAMED WAS LIKE, “CENSORSHIP WHO?” AND GAVE THE GAYS THEIR RIGHTS
- WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN
- IS THE UNTAMED ACTUALLY GAY OR IS JT LIKE… SUBTEXT GAY?
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
6 TIM THE UNTAMED WAS LIKE, “CENSORSHIP WHO?” AND GAVE THE GAYS THEIR RIGHTS
However, unlike most Che BL-based dramas that shift to bromance, The Untamed provis many subtexts that ht the homoerotic relatnship between the two ma characters. Anymore, Cha the “boy love” or homoerotic theme of the novel put a fahful adaptatn of The Untamed doubt.
WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN
As word got out that the show stayed ter to the novel than expected, the seri took off Mo Dao Zu Shi, the hero’ homosexual relatnship is explic, while The Untamed prents their relatnship as a brotherhood-style bond.
IS THE UNTAMED ACTUALLY GAY OR IS JT LIKE… SUBTEXT GAY?
In discsg The Untamed onle, chatters avoid explic mentn of the show’s gay unrton, referrg to the topic g the misleadg but polilly charged hashtag “socialist brotherhood” hop of avoidg attentn om you n’t miss The UntamedThe Untamed is ptivatg. Gay pictur. The producers slipped some cheeky ancient gay porn to a book that Wei Wuxian tricks Lan Wangji to readg and… somehow, that passed censorship.
This isn’t the only “gay picture”: a later scene, Wei Wuxian wak up his bed and looks fondly at a drawg that (prumably) his younger self scribbled to the bedame of two boys holdg hands and kissg. Rabbs are doubly signifint Che mythology as a symbol of queerns; the Che god of homosexual relatnships is lled the Rabb God.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
The Untamed was produced the ntext of a eply homophobic society, and th had to adhere to strict Che censorship regulatns. The productn team seems to have fought for the most romantic terpretatn of the show uld get away wh, and recently released a special edn re-ed of the show that’s jt an even more homoerotic ed of all the scen between Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian — all the moments of touchg, hand-holdg, and oglg they weren’t able to sneak to the fal cut.
) The origal novel featur a homosexual relatnship between two central characters, Wei Yg and Lan Zhan, and the story is set a pre-morn fantasy realm. While the pictn of the homosexual relatnship central to the novel has proven a problem visual adaptatn, given Cha’s overall nservative attu towards LGBTQ+ issu, the element of Daoist magic key to Modao Zhi‘s narrative also reprents a cultural trope that was once nsired taboo morn Cha.
The ncept of a Heaven-mandated partner (daolu) the journey to seekg the Dao is also nvenient jtifyg homosexual relatnships, or sometim even terspeci relatnships. In addn to the relatnship between ma characters Wei Yg and Lan Zhan, a signifint majory of the sendary characters Modao Zhi are also homosexual relatnships, wh heterosexual relatnships relegated to margal characters. There is a very fe le to toe between prentg an tense homosocial relatnship vers a subtle homosexual relatnship.