Milk: Turning Anger into Action
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- Can anger make the world a better place? We usually think of anger as destructive, but if you can harness it, you can turn it into a constructive force for good -- as Harvey Milk discovered, both in real life and in the movie Milk.
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"That started to change in the late '60s with events like Stonewall, which hopefully someone will make a movie about someday"
[insert Tidas from FFX laughing here]
+ToruKun1 Aha ... ha ... ha ... ha ... ha ... ha ... ha...
Another film that pairs well with this is "The Times of Harvey Milk," a documentary that's now available through the Criterion Collection (and thus, Hulu). Some of the real footage gathered for the documentary was used in "Milk," and you can even see a few scenes from the movie as they actually happened.
Once anger has been turned to passion it can move mountains.
Anger is an energy. (Thank you John Lydon for that).
I loved "Milk". Gus Van Sant did a great job with a great script. It really gave me a sense of what those times were like. I even
felt it up here in North Dakota. It was because of those events (Harvey Milk's work for gay rights and Anita Bryant's anti-gay crusade in Dade County) that I decided to come out in 1977 a decision that caused both a feeling of relief and a few scary moments with homophobes. Back in those days harassing and beating up gay guys nearly got you the key to the city. But, there was an energy..a feeling of real change and visibility. One of our bookstores carried Blueboy magazine and copies of The Gay Sources and The Joy of Gay Sex. The college library had a subscription to The Advocate back when it was a newspaper. And although I only knew of a few closeted gay guys in Minot, those connections with what was happening around the country let me know that there was hope that someday I would be a part of a community...even here in the frozen north.
Here's a suggestion: How do some films that were supposed to be aimed towards a straight male audience end up becoming loved by gay audiences? One that comes to mind for me (because Im kind of a geek) is Barbarella. I mean, it has a near nude Jane Fonda pretty much throughout the film....Loads of straight sex.....But, as a young gay boy, there was Pygar the angel....How could you not fall for John Phillip Law. So, was it just him that stirred the gay flame? Or Anita Pallenberg? Or Barbarella's fur lined starship? What is the criteria for seemingly straight films being given an eternal place in gay iconography?
+Brent Braniff See the Wikipedia page on Camp (style.) I think that will explain the gay appeal of Barbarella.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_(style)
I'm living in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. In the city of Dallas, there's an openly gay man on the city council. Houston has an openly lesbian mayor, and both cities are being lit up this month for pride. Not to mention that we have an openly lesbian woman on the ballot for governor, as of this writing. If this can happen in the reddest of red states in the era of Trump, it should be proof positive that this is a fight that can be won.
There is a comment in this video that is the perfect careful-what-you-wish-for example. Matt, as an aside, mentions making a movie about Stonewall. Well, one did get made and it was not only terrible, it betrayed the whole point about Stonewall.
He has an Oscar AND Tom Daley?
Makes you sick, doesn't it. :p
Once turned to passion anger can be focused to achieve the greatest of deeds. Milk was strong enough to believe he could change the system and he fought to do so.
Once you are mayor of sesame street, you might want to sort out wayfinding. So many people are asking "can you tell me how to get to sesame street" but nobody really knows.
"Stone Wall wich hopfuly someone will make a movie about someday"... little did he know...
I had no clue that Sean Penn played Harvey Milk until after I watched the movie
This movie is amazing, this video made me rewatch it immediately, and the person it is based on is even more amazing. I've really been enjoying your videos since I found your channel yesterday. Thank you for your insight!
+Matt Baume Consider this: Anger turned toward a good use becomes indignation.
+Jwb52z Oh that's a good way of looking at it!
Matt, as always thanks for a great history lesson, many of our young LGBTQ youth do not know how they got where they are.
Relevant now more than ever.
talk about naoh's arc or other black movies tv shows about the Black Gay population, or movies about interracial dating.
There was a Stonewall movie made in 1995 that was really good. You should cover it.
Years since I saw the film, but the first seconds of this video makes me wonder if you've read the recent Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles. It recasts our favorite pink lion as a closeted Broadway 1950s playwright.
I'm very curious how you'd react to this gorgeous book.
And there's such a history of LGBTQ presence in comics, from old underground books to current mainstream, that it seems like it should be interesting to you.
I would love your review of the 1996 movie "Lilies." The first same-sex romantic feature film I'd ever seen.
Oooh I'll check it out!
@@MattBaume The first same-sex romantic films I ever saw were Happy Together by Wong Kar Wai and The wedding banquet by Ang Lee, I love those movies, I was 18 back then and so far had only watched comedies like Too Wong Foo or The Birdcage, I had never seen gay serious films before and let me tell you, Happy together destroyed me. Specially because it's love story like any other where being gay isn't the center of the story, it's never a problem. It's just about love. A movie like this coming from China in 1996 must've been a ballsy move by its director. I would love to hear your take on it :)
Tom Daly is so freakin adorable.
i love ur videos
Yeah anger can be a constructive force what do you think revelution rock is?
brilliant! hands DOWN. I will remember this when trying to start war for injustice. I have try find my chi almost every day Also have to remember my gay brothers and sisters are not enemy when it comes to fighting my way. I believe in Malcolm X by any means necessary. Then again you get more with honey than with vinegar But sometimes shit has to happen
They made a movie about stonewall with none of the real people involved in the riot. Also, even the director said he wanted the main character to act “straight”
They did make a movie
+geekbaritone I mean... not a good one... which is the joke... He made a video about the Stonewall movie before this video. It's titled "Why "Straight Acting" Insults the Memory of Stonewall" if you want to check it out.
+Patricia R there are actually 2 that I know of the one that came out in 1995 and last year.
+geekbaritone True. Both are fictionalized in different ways, though. I would personally like to see a movie about the Stonewall riots that is about the real people who were actually a part of the riots and movement that it started, and not focused on fictional characters, which is, I believe, what Matt was getting at with his comment.
Hey. Im from the future. They do one day make a Stonewall movie, but Id suspect you'd be quite upset with its cis-whitewashing.
loved the movie but was surprised bout sean penn i always thought he was homophobic?
Really? Sean Penn who was out in New Orleans checking for dead bodies ( and living pets) when the levies broke that Sean Penn.The same who kidnapped Robert Downy jr( well sorta it was an intervention.)Nah he had anger issues( mainly the drugs talking) vas a kid but got better. And has done a lot to raise his pr.But I've never heard anything homophobic from him.
@@christyshultz6443 read madonnas brothers book "my life with my sister madonna" by christopher ciccone. When Penn found out Chris was gay, he actually had the audacity to ask him if he had aids.
Why does no one talk about what a racist Harvey Milk was though?
explain
I never cared for this film. I had seen the AMAZING Oscar winning documentary- 'The Times of Harvey Milk' and the film 'Milk' NEVER came close to it. 'Milk' seemed like a hacked together dramatization of the doc and the book it was taken from- The Mayor of Castro Street- I assumed it was a bad adaptation. I was shocked when it was nominated in the ORIGINAL Screenplay category AND even more surprised when it won- but after the gay backlash against the Academy for Brokeback- they were desperate to award any gay film with good reviews, that- and the incredibly weak field against it in this category!