Boys in The Band on Netflix on September 30

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I watched the original a couple of years ago and then again last week in anticipation of the Netflix remake (which I watched a few days ago). I thought it was OK. I recognized that they did not deviate much at all from the original script. The dialogue was very nearly identical.

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Does anyone know of a streaming service running the original Boys in the Band?

 

There’s a site I use, but I never use my laptop for it lest it gets a virus; I just use my phone. You’ll have to contend with a few pop-ups. Feel free to PM me if you want it.

[+ WilliamM]

You, sir, just out-gayed Boys in the Band

 

And I saw the REAL Judy Garland!

[+ Lucky]

I saw this newer version performed live in New York. Matt Bomer was in his underwear when he was alone with Jim Parsons. But not in the movie. The scenes of New York made me sad because so much of my New York experience is gone. I wonder if I will have any newer experiences.

But Jim Parsons played his role well, totally obnoxious. I wonder if he stayed in character during off-screen moments. I'd of slapped him!

Robin DeJesus was brilliant on stage and in the movie. And $20 for an overnight? Wow.

[+ sf westcoaster]

Friends and I have been discussing the movie and each of us has a different interpretation or understanding of the meaning of the ending scene where we see Michael running down the street. I am interesting in hearing what you took away from that scene.

[+ Lucky]

I thought he was running from himself.

[cany10011]

I saw this newer version performed live in New York. Matt Bomer was in his underwear when he was alone with Jim Parsons. But not in the movie. The scenes of New York made me sad because so much of my New York experience is gone. I wonder if I will have any newer experiences.

But Jim Parsons played his role well, totally obnoxious. I wonder if he stayed in character during off-screen moments. I'd of slapped him!

Robin DeJesus was brilliant on stage and in the movie. And $20 for an overnight? Wow.

 

 

I saw the play too in New York and I was sitting in the 2nd row. For some reason, i thought Bomer was naked in the shower scene onstage as I remarked to my friend who got the tickets how lucky we were to be up close and personal with him

[Best Kisser]

Can somebody explain what the very last scene was about? Jim Parsons running down the street. I am very familiar with the play and saw this revival last year, but do no understand this scene???

[CheckCar]

Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto weren’t as strong as the actors who played their roles in the original film. And since those two characters bring so much of the drama, this remake felt a bit flat to me.

[+ Lucky]

Friends and I have been discussing the movie and each of us has a different interpretation or understanding of the meaning of the ending scene where we see Michael running down the street. I am interesting in hearing what you took away from that scene.

The reviewer in the Washington Post says this:

 

Living in the closet will turn you into a kind of emotional hunchback, the film seems to argue.

In 2020, there is, sadly, nothing anachronistic about that truth. In the film’s final image, Mantello shows Michael running down a street after the rain, away from the camera — and, as it were, toward a future that holds both promise and, overlaid with the film’s pall of pessimism, the long shadow of persecution.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/the-boys-in-the-band-movie-review/2020/09/28/a452902e-0012-11eb-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html