“Do you think he’s a freak?” Lee, the agent for William S. Burroughs played by Daniel Craig, asks his friend Joe about the lithe young Eugene played by Drew Starkey. queer.
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When Jason Schwartzman woos Allen Ginsberg, Joe replies, “You could always ask,” but Lee protests that he can’t do that. Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of Burroughs’s novella, set in 1950s Mexico City, takes audiences back to a time when “queer” was a derogatory term for those who identified with it. And something as simple as asking someone if they were straight was never done in the light of day.
throughout Queer, Lee, an addict and expatriate, cruises through Mexico City’s gay underworld, smoldering and sweating in a linen suit jacket, playing the character of Omar Apollo, billed only as the man at Chim’s Bar. I’m obsessed with and obsessed with pretty young ones, including.
Although it is divided into several sections, queer The film depicts the delicate relationship between Lee and Eugene, from Mexico City to the jungles of Ecuador, where they stumble into trouble.or enjoying ayahuasca together, eventually landing on Lee back in Mexico.
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This movie was released at a time when Donald Trump’s re-election as president is having some impact in the United States. LGBTQ+ Everyone, we are setting our goals again under Project 2025, taking into account our expatriate status. Although it is different from when Burroughs wrote it. queer Queer sex is being discussed more openly and with little pathos among LGBTQ+ people today as William Tell awaits trial for killing his wife in a game gone awry.
“Burroughs was a very complicated, troublesome, kind of great artist-writer who was married and went through all kinds of trouble.” [experiences]was a junkie, and it represented queerness at a time when it was illegal and all that stuff,” said Craig, who plays the queer character Benoit Blanc. Knives Outtell Defender. “I think having a story like this is just as important now as it was then, and maybe even more so, but I think it’s important to dig in emotionally and find out what it is. I wouldn’t have worked on it if I didn’t think I could do it.”
Starkey (outer banks) It describes Eugene’s hot and cold approach to physical and emotional intimacy with Lee.
“I think he’s in a vulnerable state. I think Lee is probably the first person in his life to show up. [Eugene] To myself in a way. I think that’s scary, but it’s also a time when he, or a lot of people, may not have the language to relate to externalize these feelings in any way,” Starkey said. say.
“[Eugene] I don’t have a mechanism to show myself [intimacy]but there’s still some kind of gravity that draws him to Lee in a way. And sometimes he leans into it. Sometimes he even keeps his arms outstretched. ”
Luca Guadagnino’s Queer stars Daniel Craig as Lee and Drew Starkey as Eugene. A24
Apollo only appears briefly in the film, but the image of him as a chim-ba-gay bedded down to Lee in a dingy hotel under bleak overhead lights permeates the film. queer recording artist apolloA longtime fan of Burroughs, he talks about creating memorable scenes with Craig that depict real sexual relationships between men.
“I got a call and [they] He told me about the scene and how explicit it was. I immediately said yes. I thought, yes of course. This is Daniel Craig. Of course I’m depressed” says Apollo. “I wasn’t really scared. I thought, That’s kind of my reality. It’s not new to me, but” he added.
“But it was very exciting to do something. Especially when it comes to skin and body contact, it’s great to be able to trust someone to film a scene like that so intimately and beautifully.” I trusted everyone on set and it was so easy and fun. ”
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