John du pont gay
Foxcatcher
Today, ABC aired this ESPN look at the murders, released last year:
Director Jesse Vile’s hourlong documentary version of the DuPont story features an interview with Mark Schultz, who offers his control impressions of both his brother Dave and DuPont. “The Prince Of Pennsylvania” isn’t about Notice Schultz—other wrestlers who trained in John DuPont’s Foxcatcher Farms facility are featured just as prominently—but it does grant him to provide his side of the story. Which is why Vile’s decision not even to mention the movie is strange. Would ESPN own greenlit “The Prince Of Pennsylvania” if there’d never been a Foxcatcher? Is there some reason why no one in the doc can say—even in passing—that this episode intends to fix the record unbent on a limited things? Because just about anyone who’s seen Foxcatcher would love to catch DuPont’s ex-wife or one of his wrestlers talk about what Steve Carell got right and wrong when he slapped on a prosthetic nose to play John.
As for those who haven’t seen Foxcatcher… adequately, John DuPont’s story is still engaging, and Vile (best-known for the very good doc Jason Becker: Not Gone Yet) assembles it just fine. By beginning with the harrowing p
Foxcatcher - motion picture with Steve Carrell playing John duPont
alexandra1
Saw this last night and was really impressed. The film is loosely based on a true story, it’s not clear how much of it is filling in the gap between what we know.
Carrell is playing a disturbing, pathetic, creepy man used to ordering people around and being capable to buy people. Channing Tatum is the naive, vulnerable young wrestler who DuPont invites to live and educate with him. Sign Ruffolo , Tatums older brother, comes across as a very affable, deeply caring man but assertive and can’t be bullied.
The clip is deeply tense - I really liked the exploit of sound, and silence, which just enhances that tension. I felt very uncomfortable with Identify and DuPont’s connection, it almost felt like grooming.
Maggie Smith has a little but very unforgettable part. When DuPonts mother comes into watch him wrestling, you’re just cringing at him putting on a display for his mother.
What did others think?
Nayna2
I loved it. I thought the makeup was amazing, Carell was genuinely creepy as du Pont, and the plot was horrifying. I didn’t remember any of the authentic story before I went in, and every step was a surpris
Foxcatcher’s Gay Subtext Brings “Rough Trade” to the Movies
This essay contains spoilers.
To realize the discomfort that many gay viewers are undoubtedly feeling in screenings of Foxcatcher—the dreary bit of Oscar bait just out from director Bennett Miller—you need to understand a few things about male lover archetypes and how they have historically functioned. This is important, because I cannot think of another recent movie that so clearly relies on homo-anxious, dog-whistle shorthand for both its characterization and plot; and yet, save for Armond White’s scathing piece in OUT, the film’s largely positive reviews hold avoided real examination of the issue.
To be reasonable, some critics have wondered aloud about the film’s “hints” at homoeroticism, but they have ultimately shied away from going further. They would likely recommend that Foxcatcher is “about” other issues: addiction, mental illness, the mentor-mentee connection, the excesses of the 1 percent, and possibly some hazy Deep Realities about American culture. Those elements are probably in there somewhere, but it’s the gay subtext—in this case, the age-old story of a wealthy, effete fairy going after coarse trade—t
John E. du Pont
Great-great grandson of E.I. du Pont, John E. du Pont possesses a net worth probably around $250M. A trained ornithologist, du Pont discovered and named two dozen new species of birds and wrote numerous articles of scholarship on the subject.
He is, however, insane. After the death of his mother (with whom he lived most of his first 50 years), Du Pont converted his 800 acre Foxcatcher into a wrestling "training compound", complete with 14,400 square foot training facility costing over half a million dollars. He became the primary benefactor to the sport of amateur wrestling in the entire Combined States.
A gun enthusiast, du Pont opened a firing range at Foxcatcher, which he named the J. Edgar Hoover Pistol Training Center.
Du Pont really, umm, liked new male athletes.
Evidence of gayness is circumstantial but compelling. Wrestling coach Richard Deschatelets: "Nobody would say out in the open that Du Pont's a homosexual, even though that's [what] just about everybody figured out just [by] the way he handled things." Ron Good, editor, Amateur Wrestling News: "I th