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Hollywood's obsession with gay biopics?


Obviously left-leaning. But then California is a beacon for liberals.

I don't really care whether Hoover was gay but it's annoying when I expect to watch a historical film and sit through a repressed homosexual romance, I will be annoyed.

ESPECIALLY when that homosexual romance is based off of hearsay. Hoover was never confirmed to be anything but a loner and first class douchebag. His career was built on finding dirt on people so I get that it would be the ultimate irony that the man was a closeted homosexual but it's TIRESOME.

The film should have concentrated more on Hoover's illegal activities in the name of state security which he was allowed to continue via blackmail.

But instead we got a gay biopic.




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I actually haven't watch this film yet, but I was under the impression this film barely even touched on his possible homosexuallity. Since it was never proven true, and with most people these days, the rumor probably based more of pop culture jokes, I thought the relationship was left up to the viewer.


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'Obviously left-leaning. But then California is a beacon for liberals.'
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Aw..you just wanted to say "liberal" and "left", like the usual person who thinks everything revolves around politics,as though people are robots. Maybe they are, and I didn't know all this time

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His career was built on finding dirt on people so I get that it would be the ultimate irony that the man was a closeted homosexual but it's TIRESOME.
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So you then find the 'Gay' aspect more distressing than the corruption and illegal activities that Hoover engaged in. Being gay, (or closeted in Hoovers case), is a state of being and that is part of the point of this 'gay' bio pic. It is the homophobic attitudes of society and his denial, that could have played a large part of who Hoover became.

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I have not seen the film, so I don't know how much they cover the subject. It is relevant, however. It completely changes the profile of the man. If he was straight, he was a man with absolutely no close intimate relationships: he was not close with his family, never married. If, however, you accept that he and Tolson were lovers, then he becomes a man who shared a close, intimate bond with the same person for over 40 years. It changes his psychology completely.

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The OP thinks Eastwood is liberal? Yeah, real high IQ there, idiot.

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