Posted on 05/22/2019 1:09:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Paramount Pictures’ R-rated “Rocketman” will be the “first major studio to depict gay male sex onscreen," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The film is about homosexual singer Elton John’s rise to fame. It will be distributed at cinemas throughout the United States and Canada. It features Taron Egerton as Elton John and Richard Madden, who plays as one of John’s homosexual partners.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, "There were multiple scenes that included men kissing, simulated oral sex and a steamy bedroom scene with both Egerton and Madden unclothed."
"Rocketman" reportedly received a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival, creating hopes that producers will cash in. “Bohemian Rhapsody” depicted the life of bisexual rock star Freddie Mercury and brought in $900 million after its 2018 release. It bested, for example, “Walk the Line” and its portrayal of country crooner Johnny Cash.
However, previous movies produced or distributed by the big Hollywood studios have also featured sodomitic acts.
For example, “Call Me by Your Name” was produced by Sony Pictures and depicted a man seducing a teenage boy. The film won numerous awards, including its selection by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute as a top 10 film for 2017. “Moonlight” featured an all-black cast and depicted homo-sex exchanged by two adolescent boys. “Brokeback Mountain,” released by Focus Features, included adultery and homo-sex. Sony Pictures and Focus Features have been dubbed specialty labels in the movie industry, as opposed to Paramount, which is associated with big-ticket shows.
Also, back in the 1970s and ‘80s, films such as “Cruising,” which starred Oscar-winner Al Pacino, was produced by United Artists and featured homo-sex and a serial killer.
According to The Reporter, Egerton — who plays John — expressed surprise overreactions to the male kissing depicted in “Rocketman.”
"Everyone is obsessed with it," he said. "For me, kissing a man onscreen is no less appealing than kissing a woman onscreen. I'm not in any way repulsed by the male form. It's an uncomfortable thing regardless of who you're with — it makes no difference as to your sexual preference."
As for financial success for the biopic, Egerton said he is at peace with however much money it makes. “But I hope it does really, really well. If it made half of ("Bohemian Rhapsody"), it would be terrific for my career," he said, according to The Reporter.
No he isn't. At least Elton isn't a hypocrite. There isn't a bigger hypocrite on the planet than Springsteen.
Sasha Baron Cohen wanted to play Freddie, and he probably would have been even better than Rami Malek, but he insisted on showing more the gay side of Freddie, and the other members of Queen wouldn't have it.
Is anyone surprised? Next, it’ll be little children and goats. There is no shame in Hollyweird.
I don’t go to movies anyway except for Rifftracks and classics by Fathom/TCM.
Funniest post of the day!
The real money in music comes from Touring and now that they have Adam Lambert maybe they are a bit more protective.
Not sure what difference it makes. By now everyone knows he was gay.
I mean Rob Halford came out, and nobody cared, and Metal fans tend to be the most hetero-normative people on the planet. As long as he just shut up and sang, it’s all good.
I liked Bohemian Rhapsody, too. But I liked Mercury going in. Elton John, not in the least.
They might have been more concerned Sasha would be more accurate in the portrayal of Freddie as a jerk..which supposedly he was.
there is a line in Rocketman where Elton says he started being a c##t in 1975 and forgot to stop. David Furnish says he is a monster in the movie. And he was in real life.
Queen probably didn’t want that kind of stuff being shown about Freddie.
Going dirty....
btw, David Furnish father was a Director at Bristol Meyers . So he clearly came from a successful family. Maybe that gave him the background to get Elton John’s finances in order because they were a mess. Elton says he is Elton’s Yoko Ono.
Fame will do that to a person. Kind of ironic that in the last 20 or so years of his life, David Bowie turned out to be the most normal of the bunch.
Susan Boyle does a lovely job of Keith Richards song Wild Horses. When I listen to it I am amazed he is the writer..and marvel that the dude is still alive!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgVGaUrlXMM
BR was a good film. Though I’m not a big Queen fan I could tell it was an authorized version of events. It’s worth a look.
BR was a good film. Though I’m not a big Queen fan I could tell it was an authorized version of events. It’s worth a look.
Well Rami Malek will always be “Snafu”.
Ping
Love Elton John. He wrote the music and Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics. Great team.
As the decidedly non-PC band from Detroit, the Meatmen, put it: “We’re not tooling for anus!!!”.
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