Behind The Candelabra - October 14th, 2013

[bryanfury]

Originally Posted by Davy

That analogy only works if you're going to try gay sex. It's only a movie. It's attitudes like that which stopped the film getting a US theatrical release.

Soderbergh himself backtracked on his original statement that the film was 'too gay' with the realisation that it just wouldn't have been all that popular to warrant a full-scale release. The alternative is that it was all part of HBOs marketing campaign, God forbid a director shouldn't tout an underdog film too raunchy for the cinema. And it worked, people flocked by the droves to see it and defend it on these very boards against people like me apparently...

http://www.motherjones.com/media/201...-hollywood-gay