Love Pours In
"It's interesting to see how each of the actors exhibit their own distinct variation of portraying gay men," says a Playlist review of Gus Van Sant's Milk (Focus Features, 12.5). "Diego Luna is the most flamboyant, James Franco is understated, and Emile Hirsch is the most precocious. And playing the father figure to these Lost Boys is Sean Penn, who has Milk's exaggerated podium gestures and Long Island accent down perfectly.
"Penn does a magnificent job of dividing himself in two, as Milk had to also manage, splitting his time and attention between his personal life and his career as a political figure; and on top of that even his career was divided. He was a sidewalk activist who worked for the government and preferred it this way.
"Delivering perhaps the most unexpected performance is Josh Brolin as city supervisor Dan White who murdered both Milk and Mayor Moscone (played by Victor Garber). It is hinted that maybe Dan White was a closet case and jealous of Milk's freedom. Brolin gives just enough evidence that this might be true before covering it up quickly, hiding it almost too well.
"Brolin's turn makes you really feel empathy for White and understand the pressure he underwent. He watched Milk succeed in making sure Proposition 6 was not passed, and yet he couldn't get a simple pay raise."
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on October 17, 2008 at 2:52 PM
comment #1
York "Budd" Durden
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After seeing the trailer and these early comments, I am dying to see this. I'm feeling a Milk vs. Button vs. TDK award race.
Posted by York "Budd" Durden
at October 17, 2008 4:22 PM
comment #2
insidah
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Um, who did this Dustin Lane Black character fuck to have the most prominent writing credit i've seen in ages? during the threatre trailer at the grove, all the film people were like who is this guy to be getting the call out.
Posted by insidah
at October 17, 2008 5:03 PM
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TheJeff
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The Playlist is a blog. The writer of the review is uncredited. Here is a the link:
http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2008/10/this-is-why-we-dont-drink-soy-milk-is.html
Posted by TheJeff
at October 17, 2008 5:20 PM
comment #4
Dan Revill
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It's a pretty good trailer - saw it before W, and it plays really well. I can't wait to see this movie. I think it'll be big at the end of the year too.
Posted by Dan Revill
at October 17, 2008 7:30 PM
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scooterzz
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i really wish they'd planned to get this in theaters before 11/4......
Posted by scooterzz
at October 17, 2008 7:45 PM
comment #6
CitizenKanedforChewingGum
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Looks really good. Van Sant truly is one of America's cinematic visionaries when the planets are properly aligned...
Posted by CitizenKanedforChewingGum
at October 17, 2008 9:04 PM
comment #7
MilkMan
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Some of you talk like blurbs. When you pay for your lunch, do you say, I can't wait to eat this, roast beef has done it again, another incredible sandwich. Or when you deposit your a check at the bank, this receipt is on fire, makes me rub my eyes in disbelief, it makes me want to say, did I really just see that.
My dad is definitely the violent type of gay man. My mom saw him walking out of a gay magazine/book/video store on La Cienega and he told her that if she told anyone he would kill her with his bare hands, which is exactly what he tried to do a few days later when he found out that my mother had told me.
I am the needy type of gay man. I have to be told how big my dick is and how good of a fuck I am and that I'm handsome and that I don't look fat.
Scooterzz is the type of gay man who likes to sit in the corner of a dark room and jack off while two guys piss on each other.
Aladdin Sane is the type of gay man who likes pick up the rough boys who work Pico and fuck them in the back of his car while listening to Creed.
The Jeff is the type of gay man who likes to eat cakes that have just been farted on by Bears.
Insidah is the type of gay man who hates young gay men because they have clean, tight assholes and his has grey hairs and is wide enough so that he can do his famous beer-can chicken routine.
York Durden is the type of gay man who is in denial of the fact that the lesions on his back are not acne.
Posted by MilkMan
at October 18, 2008 2:07 AM
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BurmaShave
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Milk that was a little gross but I'm still insulted not to have been included.
Posted by BurmaShave
at October 18, 2008 9:36 AM
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p.Vice
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Ditto.
Posted by p.Vice
at October 18, 2008 9:44 AM
comment #10
CitizenKanedforChewingGum
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Yeah, wtf, Milk. Tell me what kinda gay man I am! I demand it. Oh, and also tell us what kind of gay man LexG is. That oughta be good. I have a feeling it should have something to do with his ASS being OWNED after getting his MAN UP.
Posted by CitizenKanedforChewingGum
at October 18, 2008 11:52 AM
comment #11
MilkMan
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Burmashave is the type of gay man who doesn't care for the flamboyant, bitchy stereotype that Hollywood perpetuates, but still reserves the right to wear high heels and a boa if he's in the mood.
P.Vice is the type of gay man who believes that you can be cured of your homosexuality through the spirit of the Holy Ghost. P. Vice is also the type of gay man who thought Arthur Dong's License to Kill was the funniest movie of 1996.
Posted by MilkMan
at October 18, 2008 12:05 PM
comment #12
MilkMan
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LexG is the type of gay man who oscillates between having a transsexual dominatrix crush his scrotum with a pliers and popping amyl nitrates in order to have the courage to act as a Power Top for passive German businessmen who like to come to America once a year so that they can receive a prolapsed rectum.
CitizenKaneforChewingGum is the type of gay man who likes to pretend that he's in town from Germany on a business trip.
Posted by MilkMan
at October 18, 2008 12:11 PM
comment #13
MilkMan
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One thing is for certain: the guy who wrote the 'review' of Milk for Playlist is the kind of gay man I run into the most.
The tormented type, the I'm Able to See Into the Human Condition with Acute Insight Because When I was 13 I Diddled My Best Friend Todd.
Dan White was not a tormented homosexual, he was an angry, frustrated little man who had a whole lot of drive and ambition and little else to help him make it through life, especially not charisma and intelligence, not like Harvey Milk, who was a human magnet.
I'm pretty sure Josh Brolin is not able to play repressed rage.
I saw W. last night and that's not how he played the ticking time-bomb that is our President.
(I wonder what W. is going to do when he's not 'in charge,' anymore, when no one, save a few bumpkins, is going to care what he has to say about anything. W. might be the first former president who goes on a murder spree, a small one, maybe killing some of the help, the cook, the maid, the driver and his dog.)
Who am I?
Right now, who am I?
I feel like the guy who held Giuseppe Franco and seven of his clients hostage.
The mistake the guy made is that Giuseppe won a Golden Gloves title when he was a teenager.
One of you is Giuseppe Franco.
Posted by MilkMan
at October 18, 2008 3:09 PM
comment #14
MilkMan
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Jeff is Giuseppe Franco. Duh.
Just waiting for the right moment.
Then it will be lights out.
Posted by MilkMan
at October 18, 2008 3:11 PM
comment #15
Hal
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"It is hinted that maybe Dan White was a closet case and jealous of Milk's freedom."
If Brolin can play this in an "unexpected" way, I'll be impressed, because the Jealous Closet Case is pretty much a standard interpretation when it comes to homophobes. Though the jealousy is more than believable, with James Franco as the love interest. He has never looked sexier than in this trailer, with curly hair and porn 'stache.
Posted by Hal
at October 19, 2008 12:22 AM
comment #16
fumero
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I hope Sean Penn wins the Best Actor Oscar this year and dedicates it to Anita Bryant, (maybe she'll be so shocked by the shout-out that she'll choke on a twinkie or something), and the FABULOUSLY-keystone-cops of southern California, the San Franciso police department.
Posted by fumero
at October 19, 2008 2:04 AM
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fumero
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Oh yeah, and he should dedicate it to MilkMan, who's probably the kind of gay man who hates fags because his mommy was his daddy and his daddy was his uncle. Screwed him up real good.
Posted by fumero
at October 19, 2008 2:26 AM
comment #18
janee
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at May 18, 2011 5:59 AM