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Does everybody remember the article at Vulture several weeks back when Richard Linklater's film Everybody Wants Some!! came out that called the film "accidentally gay" and talked about the homo-swoon that hit the room when Tyler Hoechlin laid back on a couch in a half-shirt? Yeah there that is and I feel that swoon, pink and glittery and dripping with stinky testosterone, a'comin.
I'm not sure where this Tumblr's (thx Mac) gotten all these shots, if the film's leaked online or what, but I still haven't seen the movie much to my dismay. Clearly I've let you all down. Anyway Linklater finally addressed the "accidentally" pat of "accidentally gay" in an even more recent interview, you can read that here. He says he totes knew what he was doing, and looking at these shots I'm prone to believe him! Hit the jump for some more, cuz I mean...
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It's easy to isolate a few shots from the movie and call them "gay" but the movie seriously has hardly any homoeroticism. What Richard Linklater did was very subtle and you're only going to find it if you look really, really hard.
I don't know, I didn't have to look too hard to see the homoeroticism in Tyler Hoechlin's stomach muscles exposed between a short shirt and short shorts. That, accompanied with the director's own words and the well established homoeroticism (at the VERY least sexually charged homosociality) of fraternities and collegiate sports, makes this pretty cut and dried as far as I'm concerned. I'm not saying that male characters spent a lot of time staring at one another meaningfully, but there are different ways to be homoerotic, even if the creator and characters are all straight.
The use of the word faggot in the film really turned me off. I know its based on the 80's and I'm usually not a prude but it really annoyed me b/c it was so not needed in the film.
I haven't seen the movie. I probably will eventually. Did you realize that the kid who played Willoughby is Wyatt Russell, the son of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn?
I just think that's kinda cool.
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