i haven't read that the film avoids acknowledging repressed sexuality, in fact it's been charged with gay-baiting precisely for seeming to indicate that the main character is a homicidal closet case
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 23 January 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
ven before he developed delusions that he was being spied on by Nazis and that horses were sending him messages from Mars, there were signs that multimillionaire John Eleuthère du Pont was, at the very least, eccentric.Touring his 880-acre Foxcatcher Farm in an armoured personnel carrier, he would describe seeing Disney characters looming out of the rain, or trees uprooting themselves and marching around the estate. He feared that intruders were hiding in the walls of his $4 million stately home, hired security contractors to check for secret tunnels under his floorboards, and had the balls on his billiard table checked for listening devices.
Hey, this would make quite a good movie instead of the boring, depressing pos I just watched.
― I'm make-believe. (jed_), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 04:53 (six years ago) link
"Even before..."
Never bothered with this. The Team Foxcatcher documentary that's on Netflix tells the undeniably crazy and sad story; per VG upthread, it's the 30 for 30 equivalent you'll want to watch instead.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 05:00 (six years ago) link
totally! i did end up watching the 30 for 30... there's another doc too I think. i'm glad they exist as a counter to the movie
but yeah... the movie took a complicated story and boiled it down so much it didn't resemble much of anything except a deeply fictionalized story that Miller wanted to tell
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 05:24 (six years ago) link
... like Moneyball
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 13:58 (six years ago) link