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Fire Up Your Oscars: Here Come Da 'Milk'!
Posted by Seth at 7:45 AM on September 4, 2008
Here it is: The trailer for Milk, Gus Van Sant's retelling of the swift rise and violent and untimely fall of America's first openly gay elected official, set against a backdrop of the swinging San Francisco of the late '70s. Everything here seems note-perfect, from Sean Penn's Horshackian (with base notes of I Am Sam) vocal inflections, to the meticulously executed period gayfros, to the Anita Bryant file footage (here's some more of Bryant getting a banana cream pie in the face; ah—that never gets old), to the portentous-but-not-too-portentous tagline: "His life changed history. His courage changed lives." You thought a pair of lovelorn cowboys shot in silhouette were enough to nudge the Oscar envelope? Just wait until Sean Penn's Best Actor clip—featuring the actor entwined in James Franco's naked folds and delivering a stirring monologue on answering one's higher calling—shows the Academy how one really gays their way to the gold.
Here it is:
- Milk [Apple Trailers]
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RocketRockit
Posted 8:07 AM 4/9/08
The tags on this are the best -- "femmes, homos, leathermen, lend me your ears."
RocketRockit
TexasCrude
Posted 8:06 AM 4/9/08
oh lawd. this is too much beef for me to handle in a two-hour block.
TexasCrude
Rilo-Andy
Posted 8:06 AM 4/9/08
Ok it's cheesy and manipulative, but my gay heart grew about three sizes today...
Rilo-Andy
Raxl
Posted 8:37 AM 4/9/08
Yeah, he's going full homo on this one.
Raxl
TillieHarper
Posted 8:20 AM 4/9/08
Sean Penn is so f'ing creepy. His creep factor will keep me from seeing this movie. I guess I have to watch the Milk A&E biography instead. Quel bummer.
TillieHarper
kookla
Posted 8:18 AM 4/9/08
Milk does a body good...
kookla
Mymoustache
Posted 9:13 AM 4/9/08
Full on retard, full on gay, full on sleazy lawyer - its all the same to sean.
Mymoustache
el smrtmnky
Posted 9:24 AM 4/9/08
Dead Man Sashaying
el smrtmnky
OldTowneTavern
Posted 9:46 AM 4/9/08
Just what that depressing award winning documentary needed: sex and a soundtrack.
OldTowneTavern
El Panda Oso
Posted 11:52 AM 4/9/08
MY HEAD IS SPINNING, I LOVE IT SO MUCH.
El Panda Oso
brilliantmistake
Posted 12:04 PM 4/9/08
@TillieHarper: Or you can netflix the excellent The Times of Harvey Milk. Made me bawl like kid.
Favorite Harvey Milk quote (about attempts to ban gays and lesbians from teaching): "...if teachers were such a big influence then, no offense intended, but there would be a lot more nuns in the world."
brilliantmistake
Miss d
Posted 5:05 PM 4/9/08
"His life changed history. His courage changed lives." - more importantly, we got the Twinky defence... *just kidding*
I feel a theme night coming on to prepare for seeing this - 70s gay porn here I cum!
Miss d
TheJerseyDevil
Posted 5:17 PM 4/9/08
Playing Dubya and Dan White in the same year? Christ, Josh Brolin is a glutton for punishment.
TheJerseyDevil
WGARefugee
Posted 1:52 AM 5/9/08
I'm so going to see this. Makes me wonder if the bad behavior that ended Penn's marriage had anything to do with what this role brought up for him.
WGARefugee
kylo4
Posted 12:22 PM 5/9/08
Sean Penn's acting here kind of reminds me of I am Sam without him being challenged. I'll check the movie out but I wonder if the Oscar crowd will eat it up. Gus Van Sant is definitely a great director (we had to be reminded of that in the trailer too.)
kylo4