The original 1968 play and the 1973 movie showed how gay men could only meet at parties and get togethers as being gay was illegal at the time. You could be arrested for simply being at a bar with a man and buying him a drink. History wasn't kind to the original play/film but people misunderstood it.
The film was about isolation and self loathing taught by a homophobic society.
Whilst the men in the original play/film deeply hurt each other they also deeply loved each other. There homophobic language was the only language they knew,the pain they inflicted on each other was the pain they were feeling about themselves!
This remake has none of that nuance, it's designer actors copying the roles the men in the original movie were living through on a personal level. Michael,Harold,Emory,Bernard,cowboy and Larry weren't just roles these actors played it was their real lives too! How could these millennial actors know the pain and self loathing the original cast felt (6 out of the original cast went on to die of A. I. D. S) they couldn't and it shows!
The whole thing is wooden,unemotional and without heart.
This play/film should have been left as it was,a film showing of times that were slightly worse than they are now! Brian Murphy just doesn't understand the pain of LGBTQI+ history.
The film was about isolation and self loathing taught by a homophobic society.
Whilst the men in the original play/film deeply hurt each other they also deeply loved each other. There homophobic language was the only language they knew,the pain they inflicted on each other was the pain they were feeling about themselves!
This remake has none of that nuance, it's designer actors copying the roles the men in the original movie were living through on a personal level. Michael,Harold,Emory,Bernard,cowboy and Larry weren't just roles these actors played it was their real lives too! How could these millennial actors know the pain and self loathing the original cast felt (6 out of the original cast went on to die of A. I. D. S) they couldn't and it shows!
The whole thing is wooden,unemotional and without heart.
This play/film should have been left as it was,a film showing of times that were slightly worse than they are now! Brian Murphy just doesn't understand the pain of LGBTQI+ history.