Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:10pm
Milk is a new movie coming soon to theaters about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to a public office in the USA; a true story.
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cenes are usually shunned from television and movies. Brokeback Mountain only showed a few pecks and a suggestive scene, and wasn't the most in depth movie... it was revolutionary because it was the first major movie with a gay relationship, not because it was any good.
Milk breaks some ground with more 'gay scenes'. Plenty of kissing, semi-nude scenes, and two 'kind of' sex scenes without suffering a NC-17 rating. Not to say this is a great thing, but it shows the beginning of equality, in movies, anyways. I mean, think of movies like Knocked Up or Forgetting Sarah Marshall where it is a testicle away from a porn scene, and only rated 18A/R... but the movie Imagine Me & You, which could have been mistaken for a Disney movie, was rated R for a passionate kiss between two women. Most movies that try to get in a gay scene or two have to cut the scene, or else they suffer the rating of NC-17.
So, perhaps this shows a little less anti-gay bias from the MPAA (the movie raters). ...?
But, that is hardly the point. A kiss, a sex scene, that is not what makes a movie! What made this a movie is showing the plight of LGBT people. It also shows a side to gay men which is almost never portrayed, which is a loving, caring side, versus the sex-craved side. It tells a story, a true one, of a great man who greatly helped the gay rights movement.
For those interested: PRIDE is considering getting a private screening of the movie when it comes out December 5th. We are hoping to be able to see it before Christmas break. We need 25 people for a private screening.
Please let us know if you are interested.
If we do not get the necessary numbers, we are still planning on going and seeing the movie, but it will be in a packed theater instead of just us.
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Labels: Entertainment, Media, Movies
Milk is a new movie coming soon to theaters about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to a public office in the USA; a true story.
Gay s
Milk breaks some ground with more 'gay scenes'. Plenty of kissing, semi-nude scenes, and two 'kind of' sex scenes without suffering a NC-17 rating. Not to say this is a great thing, but it shows the beginning of equality, in movies, anyways. I mean, think of movies like Knocked Up or Forgetting Sarah Marshall where it is a testicle away from a porn scene, and only rated 18A/R... but the movie Imagine Me & You, which could have been mistaken for a Disney movie, was rated R for a passionate kiss between two women. Most movies that try to get in a gay scene or two have to cut the scene, or else they suffer the rating of NC-17.
So, perhaps this shows a little less anti-gay bias from the MPAA (the movie raters). ...?
But, that is hardly the point. A kiss, a sex scene, that is not what makes a movie! What made this a movie is showing the plight of LGBT people. It also shows a side to gay men which is almost never portrayed, which is a loving, caring side, versus the sex-craved side. It tells a story, a true one, of a great man who greatly helped the gay rights movement.
For those interested: PRIDE is considering getting a private screening of the movie when it comes out December 5th. We are hoping to be able to see it before Christmas break. We need 25 people for a private screening.
Please let us know if you are interested.
If we do not get the necessary numbers, we are still planning on going and seeing the movie, but it will be in a packed theater instead of just us.
Comments
Labels: Entertainment, Media, Movies
I'm always up for going to the movies =]
And I'm glad I'm not the only one that recognized just how HORRIBLE Brokeback Mountain was.. and it drove me crazy when people complained it was too explicit because in actually it's not the least bit explicit.