Queer as Folk. United Kingdom, 1999. Directors: Sarah Harding and Charles
McDougall Screenwriter: Russell T.
Davis Cast: Aidan Gillen, Craig Kelly, Charlie Hunnam
Subjects of interest: Male Homosexuality
Synopsis:
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A teenager with a thirty-one night in a gay bar , the boy leaves his parents' house because it was hopelessly in love with your bed partner, for which only one in her long series of conquests. Be the family's best friend of her eventual lover, a young and somewhat immature secretly in love with Casanova's also the need to take care of the boy.
A teenager with a thirty-one night in a gay bar , the boy leaves his parents' house because it was hopelessly in love with your bed partner, for which only one in her long series of conquests. Be the family's best friend of her eventual lover, a young and somewhat immature secretly in love with Casanova's also the need to take care of the boy.
Comment:
Queer as Folk was a landmark in television history by being the first television series to deal openly with homosexuality
with a focus for the public gay, with Homosexual characters had previously existed side in series as Enredo , one of the pioneers in the 70's, or even in serials like Dynasty, but the products were intended for a heterosexual audience that homosexuality was a note of color or exotic. In the 90 Ellen DeGeneres came out of the closet while the fictional character who played on the sitcom Ellen , but not the number was no longer general, other production then began to count stars homosexuals, as was the case of English Uncle Willy, but its potential audience was being heterosexual families (as evidenced by the title) and his approach to teaching and politically correct. Queer as Folk, however, is the portrait of a group of gay characters facing gay audiences also identifies situations and stereotypes that are offered and not only allows but requires a higher dose realism and diversity. Free from the tutelage imposed by political correctness and the family audience, the gay characters longer have the halo and aseptic asexual had surrounded them so far and are freed from the heavy commitment of each of them represent all homosexuals the planet; may be, within his fiction, flesh and blood and have strengths, weaknesses, ambitions, frustrations and sexual life.
The series addresses three main stereotypes: a young, shy and somewhat immature
unlucky as sentimental, his best friend, your typical heartthrob who goes to bed every night with one or more different guys and misses home full speed just pull up his pants, and a teenager who just came out in a rather dramatic cabinet leaving the house of his parents and being more or less adopted by the other characters. Although the world of night partying and promiscuity that is displayed does not represent the entire gay community of a city, but rather only to the common than in Spain is called environment, ie, bars and nightclubs to public gay, Queer as Folk gallery offers a variety of behaviors and attitudes, with most romantic characters , cooler or live his homosexuality more or less secret, since married people that cheating on his wife with men every time you visit the city to the insane more unleashed, to those who approach their sexuality as normal with your friends but they prefer or have to be discreet in their workplace. It also shows the difficulty of developing bond in a world where sex is so easy to find, and even friendship, since the relationship between the two main characters is actually a love story more or less buried that prevents one of them to pursue any relationship with another guy and that flatters the other, the Don Juan, encouraging him to manipulate and feed from time to time the hopes of his friend, despite its being unable to reciprocate. Top Scenes:
- The full scene teen victimization reproached her best friend who does not understand how hard it is to be gay. She responds to success: test being female and black.
Anecdotes:
- original British series and consists of just eight chapters. Unfortunately, the success of the American version stopped production, it is a pity because the English production is much more realistic and has a very superior character design, compared to the rich and beautiful from the American. I strongly recommend the original series, whose chapters can be downloaded from the net with funny subtitles in English.
- After his series of worship for years among gay through Internet downloads, Four finally dared to release the American version in Spain.
Links:
Queer as Folk (blog in English)
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