Oscar’s Penis Problem: Why Does the Academy Ignore Actors Doing Full Frontal?

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Oscar’s Penis Problem: Why Does the Academy Ignore Actors Doing Full Frontal? https://t.co/xY9Q3TiB0M
- Variety (@Variety) December 9, 2021

Variety writes about the Oscar's penis problem?

If you want to win an Oscar, does it help to have a nude scene? That depends on if you’re competing in the best actor or actress category. In the past, we’ve

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[darklitplanet]

i was in denial for about 15 solid seconds after watching the heavy drop of cumberbatch’s schlong in power of the dog, like, no, surely this movie did not subject me to that with no warning. but it did. jane campion loves making me see cocks i don’t want to see but we respect the artpop

[winter_lace]

jfc this comment

[gloeden2]

An art film finally giving the few remaining Sherlock stans what they wrote so many fics about.
Freezing and zooming happening as we speak so they measure and make notes for later stories.

[sarahvma]

I hate how much I want to Google it. Like it has to be sort of... thin and creepy like the man himself, right?

[gloeden2]

Looks like perfectly average unfluffed penis to my experienced eye. Like seeing any ol' dude in a gym shower.
I took a bullet for you, looking that shit up. YOU'RE WELCOME.

[sarahvma]

I sadly chose to watch the movie and regret it.

[gloeden2]

I refuse to watch it.
Because the trope of the troubled evil homosexual, messing with the nice heteros but, then getting what they desrve in the end...I thought that shit died out in media by the 90s. I purposely spoiled myself on the film and I was actually horrified. And no one iscalling this shit out!
Of course queer characters can be villains in film. But when their villanous behavior and eventual bad end, is tied directly to their sexuality? Nah, fuck that retrograde shit.
And it's worse when it's a period piece and repression isn't explored, so to an audience,not accustomed to thinking about these things, sees a gay acting shitty, they don't see a negative result of repression,but just someone "choosing" to be evil for fun.

[sarahvma]

Since you're not going to watch it, let me just say: yeeep.

The funniest part is that the more I think about it, Cumberbatch's character isn't meant to be a secret gay at all. Like it's very very obvious that he had sex with his old mentor and is still in love with him. Instead, Cumberbatch abhors anything "feminine". So his issue with the young gay isn't that he's gay, it's that he's acting like a "sissy". Even the gay porn the kid stumbles on is "masculine" in nature.

It's a very very odd film with nothing to say.

The worst bit being, perhaps, that we're probably meant to feel sorry for Cumberbatch and his lost love but... no? He's such a prick to everyone? And then the big twist is that he's actually this intellectual and we're meant to believe that his older lover "trained" that out of him and taught him to be a man.

So it presents homosexuality as somehow inherently masculine.

VERY WEIRD.

[gloeden2]

Very early 20th century fascist.

[anjnaadams]

IIRC it's a book Thomas Savage wrote based on his personal experiences as a closeted gay man.

To me, it came across as indictment of toxic masculinity tbh

[fromyourashes]

THAT'S what this movie is about? I keep going back and watching trailers, trying to figure out if i actually wanna watch it, but the trailers are so vague that i'm just - eh.

so i guess nope, i'm not watching it.

[gloeden2]

Sarahvma actually saw it and has a better understanding of what I only heard spoilers for. But they don't seem like they thought much of the story either. Good acting ois not enough to make me watch a messed up idea of a story anymore.

[nutellawhore]

He's so alienlike that I imagine things going more towards Urechis unicinctus than a normal dick

[littlepunkryo]

Not safe for work, this is not a rickroll

https://omg.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/benedict-cumberbatch-nude-frontal.gif

[sandstorm]

[blorpz]

lol shaki