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Was the Hero of Dallas Buyers Club Actually Bisexual?
In Dallas Buyers Club, which was nominated for six Academy Awards yesterday—including Foremost Picture, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay—Ron Woodroof, played by Matthew McConaughey, is depicted as a straight man and a bigot who gradually overcomes his own homophobia. In real life, many friends and acquaintances who were close to him speak they never thought of him as homophobic or as heterosexual. So why is the hero of the movie straight?
When my colleague Aisha Harris spoke with the film’s imaginative screenwriter, Craig Borten, in late October (Borten later worked with co-screenwriter Melisa Wallack), she asked him if Woodroof’s journey from homophobe to ally was true to life. Borten responded:
Yes homophobic—yes, his arc is real yet told in a dramatic way for the film and conveyed through his association through Rayon which is a composite character. Yes, the [Dallas club] and his diagnosis changed him.
In past interviews, Borten and the other filmmakers have insisted on the accuracy of the film’s portrayal of Woodroof, declaring it pivotal to the integrity of the film. Interviewed in 2002 (the film has been in the
Matthew McConaughey & Lance Armstrong Address Gay Rumors
Matthew McConaughey and Tour De France winner Lance Armstrong include laughed off rumors they are gay and maintain they're nothing more than great friends. The two, along with pal Jake Gyllenhaal, were frequently photographed together this summer - often shirtless - biking, running and partying. The pair's close bond even sparked a new word - a "bro-mance."
McConaughey addresses the rumors in the new issue of Details magazine joking, "We tried it (being gay). It wasn't for us."
The two Austin, Texas, natives had known each other for eight years, and really began to bond when they both found themselves back on the dating scene at the same time. McConaughey, 36, had broken up with actress Penelope Cruz, while Armstrong, 35, had called off his engagement to singer Sheryl Crow.
Armstrong explains, "Our affair just kind of developed. He got out of a relationship; I'd just gotten out of a relationship. We all own those kinds of relationships - and relationship isn't a bad word. I mean, we all own buds, we all get guy trips, but you take something very normal and you put it in a magazine,
THE 2014 OSCARS have now been thoroughly dissected, and again this year they represent a cataclysmic change in society, or so the critics and bloggers high and low hold declared. This was the year in which an African-American director won in his category, while two African actors—not Americans at all, but from Somalia and Kenya—were nominated for best supporting actor, with Lupita Nyong’o winning for 12 Years a Slave; and so an soil change is said to have occurred.
That, at any rate, became the widespread narrative of the mainstream media as they went from trophy counts to Larger Significance. Overshadowed was the fact that both of the best star awards went to actors in Dallas Buyers Club, a movie that telescopes a set of events in the early years of the AIDS epidemic and highlights the lives and struggles of its early victims (1985), mostly gay men. In my last blog post I did something unusual by announcing my favorite for Best Picture, namely Dallas Buyers Club, which I thought did a extraordinary job of telling the story of Ron Woodroof*, a redneck electrician and part-time rodeo hand who was as obsessively heterosexual as he was homophobic.
I was also rooting for Matt
LEE DANIELS' THE PAPERBOY...
I'm not a fan of Lee Daniels. At all. The trailer for his latest film; The Butler, enraged me and made me laugh out loud at the alike time. Forest Whitaker is one of my all time favorite actors so it saddens me to see him in a role that looks so beneath him (like almost everything else hes done in the last 7 years). Yes, I'm judging a film I haven't seen (and never will) but I know enough from that god awful trailer that I desire no part of what The Butler is selling (sorry, but when you've seen as many movies as I have you earn the right to judge a book...err, feature, by its cover every once in a while just like every other human being does from time to time). Perform we honestly need yet ANOTHER movie like this? Contrary to what mainstream cinema would have you believe, there's actually a lifetimes worth of imaginative stories concerning black people that has yet to be explored on the big screen beyond stories of servitutde (no matter what kind of uplifting/drivin' miss daisy spin Lee Daniels tries to tug with The Butler).
But at the same time, the movie looks like such obvious Oscar bait that all you can undertake is laugh at it.
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