Sean Penn is Harvey Milk

Harvey Milk was a Gay Rights activist is San Francisco in the 1970s. One year after being elected to office (the first openly gay politician to be elected to public office in the United States) he ran into some serious trouble with another councilor promoting old fashion family values. In this movie Josh Brolin does a great job as the assassin Dan White, but Sean Penn could win an Academy Award for his portrayal of Harvey Milk.

WARNING - Five minutes into the film there's a love scene that's hard for heterosexual men to watch, but after that you forget Penn is playing Harvey Milk and the character really comes alive on screen. You root for him in the political rallies, feel sorry for him, and celebrate when he finally wins the election

Directed by Gus Van Sant, the biopic was inspired or perhaps assisted by the success of The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, an Academy Award winning documentary on the same subject. Milk stars Sean Penn, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna and Josh Brolin.

Is this something you'll watch in the theatre? or on DVD? or not at all?

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Originally posted by arob
WARNING - Five minutes into the film there's a love scene that's hard for heterosexual men to watch, but after that you forget Penn is playing Harvey Milk and the character really comes alive on screen. You root for him in the political rallies, feel sorry for him, and celebrate when he finally wins the election

WARNING! ALL YOUR BASES MIGHT BELONG TO US!

Better not vaccinate your kids against disease or dare to see a peepee that isn't your dad's.

Your warning has saved untold or imagined numbers of manly men from suddenly becoming *******. Good on ya, mate.

Wow, I didn't even read his post first time around, didn't see that...

I don't really see what the problem is with his post at all.

"There's a gay butsekz scene. If you're straight you might find it disturbing".

... where's the problem there? It's the truth.

He could have just said there is a graphic sex scene, why the need to mention it's between two men or a man and a woman, it doesn't matter.

If it hurts someones poor little head seeing two men having sex, when they know the film falls into queer cinema originally, then it's their own fault.

Speaking of Sean Penn resembling Harvey Milk, I was listening to NPR, and they had a story about the making of the film, and had a segment about how one of his old secretaries saw Sean Penn, and had to have a second look at him, because she almost thought he was Harvey Milk for a second there.

My conservative father said he'd like to see it with me, so I'm very excited.

Originally posted by MildPossession
He could have just said there is a graphic sex scene, why the need to mention it's between two men or a man and a woman,

Because most people don't find a graphic hetero sex scene to be disturbing, while many people would find a gay sex scene to be disturbing.

If it hurts someones poor little head seeing two men having sex, when they know the film falls into queer cinema originally, then it's their own fault.

True, doen't mean they shouldn't be warned. I've seen many gay-centered movies but I have never seen one with a gay sex scene. Regardless I'll be seeing the movie anyway because Gays don't bother me... but many people aren't like that.

With your logic it's wrong for Rated R movies to have that "rated R for intense violence" warnings, because obviously if the movie falls into the horror/slasher movie, people don't have the right to have some warning.

If it had been an intense hetero sex scene and the guy made a post warning about an intense sex scene no one would give a shit, you all only care because it has to do with gays.

Reverse discrimination.

With your logic it's wrong for Rated R movies to have that "rated R for intense violence" warnings, because obviously if the movie falls into the horror/slasher movie, people don't have the right to have some warning.

It's not the same at all. Intense sex scenes or Intense violence is fine.

It would be the same logic to my posts above if it was Intense violence towards a woman, or towards a man, or towards a transexual or whatever...

Again, the graphic sex warning should be more than enough when it's a gay related film so they should expect there might be a gay sex scene... common sense.

And if the person above had put warning this film contains a graphic heterosexual sex scene, I would said something.

All that is needed is Contains Graphic Sex.

Originally posted by MildPossession
It's not the same at all. Intense sex scenes or Intense violence is fine.

No it's not. I and several people I know, find intense violence in movies to be unnescesarry and slightly disturbing.

That's not what I meant by fine...

What did you mean by fine? Do you mean, "socially acceptable"?

Graphic Sex on the rating content label is fine instead of going into detail like Graphic GAY or HETEROSEXUAL Sex, I was just using another example in the last posts.

Why?

saw this and LOVED it!

Originally posted by Selphie
saw this and LOVED it!

Sean Penn is the early odds favorite to win Best Actor

Originally posted by Final Blaxican
Why?

Mildpossion is correct here, the "graphic gay sex" disclaimer is specifically singling out the gay aspect of it. Which is silly, graphic sex is graphic sex. Would you take a 12 year old to see a movie with graphic sex, as long as it was hetero graphic sex? Seeing a simulated sex where a woman is swallowing cock or getting ****ed up the ass is okay, but not if the simulation is a man, silly.

E.G. Boys In The Hood doesn't have a "graphic negro violence" disclaimer, just "graphic violence." See?

BTW, I saw Sean Penn in Corte Madera last week; I talked to him about his car (2008Shelby GT) for about 5 seconds. He's a short mofo.

interesting.

I heard Sean Penn actually became a gay to make this film.