: Seasons of Wank
(Yes, more RENT movie wank.)
The RENT movie is coming out next week, but ever since the first trailers came out this summer, art2 (on BroadwayWorld.com), aka arthurs1 (on IMDB), has not been happy. He believes that the RENT movie (as well as Chris Columbus and Sony) is homophobic and is choosing to diminish the male/male relationship and beef up the male/female and female/female relationship (in trailers, ads, and even the movie itself) as a way to keep straight folks and "libido liberals" happy, and as a result he has made it his mission to make people see this by spreading the word (though he has not seen the movie and there's some speculation that may have not even seen the stage show), which, despite whatever good intentions he may have had, has not worked out well for him--most people do not agree.
On BWW, he is the author of such thread titles as The Rent movie trailer appears to be homophobic, How will Chris Columbus show the male-male kisses in RENT?, and Sony and Columbus appear to have put RENT through the anti-gay shredder. (All the BWW threads, despite the headdesking of many members, go on for many pages...and include a lot of penguin pictures.) On IMDB, his posts are similar, with such titles as The selective homophobia of Rent and pseudo-trendy liberals, Apparent confirmation that Chris Columbus commits an act of homophobia (because Angel is in drag when kissing Collins), The promotion of Rent fails the honesty test, An Oscar for obfuscation, and Chris Columbus appears to have de-gayed RENT to get a PG-13 rating. He's even written a letter to GLAAD. (For those without access to IMDB: ( The Letter ))
Now, because of a review of the film in the Washington Blade, he's returned to BWW with the Rent is confirmed to be selectively homphobic (actual thread title) and is saying that he has been "vindicated": this one review that agrees with him proves that he's been right all along. (All the other threads have died down, but this one is still going.)
For those that don't want to sift through everything, here are some random samplings from the book of art2/arthurs1: ( Quotables )
(Just for funsies, if you'd like more art2/arthurs1, check out his IMDB profile for his posts on boards like Jenna Jameson, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Jennifer Aniston, and....Get Rich or Die Tryin', among other things. Fap on, my friend, fap on.)
ETA: On pages 4 and 5 Anthony Rapp came onto the scene and offered his opinion that no one involved with the film is at all homophobic, and art2 responds by saying, "stop covering up for Columbus and Sony, Anthony. They've done a disservice to gay men in general and I truly believe you should be ashamed of yourself for being associated with them." ...wow.
( Full Exchange )
(Yes, more RENT movie wank.)
The RENT movie is coming out next week, but ever since the first trailers came out this summer, art2 (on BroadwayWorld.com), aka arthurs1 (on IMDB), has not been happy. He believes that the RENT movie (as well as Chris Columbus and Sony) is homophobic and is choosing to diminish the male/male relationship and beef up the male/female and female/female relationship (in trailers, ads, and even the movie itself) as a way to keep straight folks and "libido liberals" happy, and as a result he has made it his mission to make people see this by spreading the word (though he has not seen the movie and there's some speculation that may have not even seen the stage show), which, despite whatever good intentions he may have had, has not worked out well for him--most people do not agree.
On BWW, he is the author of such thread titles as The Rent movie trailer appears to be homophobic, How will Chris Columbus show the male-male kisses in RENT?, and Sony and Columbus appear to have put RENT through the anti-gay shredder. (All the BWW threads, despite the headdesking of many members, go on for many pages...and include a lot of penguin pictures.) On IMDB, his posts are similar, with such titles as The selective homophobia of Rent and pseudo-trendy liberals, Apparent confirmation that Chris Columbus commits an act of homophobia (because Angel is in drag when kissing Collins), The promotion of Rent fails the honesty test, An Oscar for obfuscation, and Chris Columbus appears to have de-gayed RENT to get a PG-13 rating. He's even written a letter to GLAAD. (For those without access to IMDB: ( The Letter ))
Now, because of a review of the film in the Washington Blade, he's returned to BWW with the Rent is confirmed to be selectively homphobic (actual thread title) and is saying that he has been "vindicated": this one review that agrees with him proves that he's been right all along. (All the other threads have died down, but this one is still going.)
For those that don't want to sift through everything, here are some random samplings from the book of art2/arthurs1: ( Quotables )
(Just for funsies, if you'd like more art2/arthurs1, check out his IMDB profile for his posts on boards like Jenna Jameson, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Jennifer Aniston, and....Get Rich or Die Tryin', among other things. Fap on, my friend, fap on.)
ETA: On pages 4 and 5 Anthony Rapp came onto the scene and offered his opinion that no one involved with the film is at all homophobic, and art2 responds by saying, "stop covering up for Columbus and Sony, Anthony. They've done a disservice to gay men in general and I truly believe you should be ashamed of yourself for being associated with them." ...wow.
( Full Exchange )
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