Sensible Erection | HBO's Angels in America

Thursday, 20 November 2003

I know this is an unusual sort of film to be anticipated on this forum, but if you like the plays at all.... THIS LOOKS FUCKING AMAZING!!!

[art] [by AshikKerib@10:55pmGMT] [+5 Good]

Comments

Makopelli said @ 11:43pm GMT on 20th Nov
Why is unusual to look forward to this here?

Makopelli said @ 11:43pm GMT on 20th Nov
*Why is it...

housewares said @ 11:54pm GMT on 20th Nov
Yeah, why's it unusual

AshikKerib said @ 12:49am GMT on 21st Nov
its a trailer post. trailer posts are usually comic book movies or sci-fi

AshikKerib said @ 12:50am GMT on 21st Nov
...though I guess this is sci-fi... in a way...

vegastripper said @ 2:25am GMT on 21st Nov
beautiful and mesmerizing

sanfran said @ 8:05am GMT on 21st Nov
Tony Kushner is one of the top 5 playwrites of the last decade, and the actual play was, of course, the biggest dramatic thing since Orson Welles and Bertolt Brecht. The great thing about the HBO production is that it features most of the original cast from the premiere of the play, so it'll probably be just as good as it was originally. I'm looking forward to it -- both as an actor, and as someone who likes good movies.

TheDemonEtrigan said @ 6:09pm GMT on 10th Dec
Angels In America
The Infomercial

Two overly excited, yet well-dressed, men are skipping on a mauve colored stage designed with a faux living room look and accented with various accessories and lots of candles. Both men, Christopher (a well manicured man in a fuchsia silk shirt with trimmed beard) and Kyle (a young voguish rogue in a Gucci suit) are jumping around the stage with a motivational zeal.

Christopher: Hey, Kyle.
Kyle: Hey, Christopher.
Christopher: I was flipping around the Satellite the other day and do you know what I found.
Kyle: Could it be?!
Christopher: It could!
Kyle: Angels In America?
Christopher: You got it Kyle. (They both mock laughter)
Kyle: I have been wanting to see that HBO series but I have ask, Is it cool?
Christopher: Is it Cool?! Well, I have just one word for you Kyle. GAY!
Kyle: Gay is Tre Sheik, Christopher. But how gay is it? (Kyle asks the crowd).
Christopher: Let me tell you, Kyle. The show has a Jewish gay couple.
Kyle: Jewish and Gay? How cool is that! (Kyle nods to the audience to confirm the coolness).
Christopher: It’s All Relative!
Kyle: (Mock laughter)
Christopher: But wait! There is more... One of them has AIDS!
Kyle: How touching. It must be good if it has AIDS! - Is that all?
Christopher: No way, Kyle. There is also a Mormon man and wife struggling through marital problems. A tug of war between religion and love.
Kyle: Sounds great Christopher but can’t the couple be cooler?
Christopher: Well, your so astute Kyle, because the husband is also gay and in the closet!
Kyle: How amazingly Six Feet Under! That’s three gays on one Angels In America.
Christopher: That’s triple the coolness, Kyle. (Christopher nods to audience confirming the coolness)
Kyle: That sounds like a wonderful show Christopher.
Christopher: But wait Kyle, there is more…
Kyle: More? No way Christopher! How could it be more cool than that?
Christopher: Because there is also a lawyer?
Kyle: A lawyer? Is he debase, lacking morality and scruples in every way?
Christopher: Well he is a lawyer Kyle? (Laughing with the audience)
Kyle: I don’t know Christopher, it just doesn’t ring of coolness.
Christopher: You are too cool to get anything by you Kyle. How about this. He is also dying of a disease!
Kyle: Wow, now that is drama, miss thing. But still. How dramatic is a dying lawyer. That seems like a dream. (Kyle mocks laughter)
Christopher: How right you are, Kyle. Then lets up the anti. How about AIDS!
Kyle: AIDS!!!! Two different characters with AIDS? That is so cool Christopher. Those writers are so cutting edge they don’t let originality weigh down their ability to be lazy, that’s for sure. But, wait, AIDS? Could that mean?
Christopher: Yes, Kyle. He is gay also.
Kyle: A gay layer? How Philadelphia! And four gay men at that.
Christopher: That’s four times your cool dollars. (Christopher holds up four fingers to the audience to assure them all.)
Kyle: Could there be anymore gayness in one show?
Christopher: There could, Kyle!
Kyle: No – Way!
Christopher: Way! There are other gay-supporting cast. Like the transvestite pal of the dying gay Jew.
Kyle: Five gays! A Queer Eye For This Straight Guy. (Kyle winks at the crowd)
Christopher: You wish you were straight Kyle. (Christopher smirks at the audience. They laugh)
Kyle: Now no good show is without sex. Sex is the definition of cool!
Christopher: Well, fear not. There is not only sex but also gay raunchy leather man anonymous anal sex.
Kyle: OZ here I cum. (Kyle snickers)
Christopher: Oh, there just Queer as Folk. (Christopher cracks himself up)
Kyle: But seriously, What about the Angels, Christopher?
Christopher: Oh, they make some cameos, but do nothing meaningful to weigh down the gayness.
Kyle: Too cool Christopher. I thought Angels In America was going to preach that it doesn’t matter if your Muslim or Jewish, Democrat or Republican, Atheist or Spiritualist, Gay or Straight, Asian or Mexican, Man or Woman; all are going to a better place, all are without judgment, and all are equal. Thank god someone realizes its only the gays are going to be angels. (Kyle nods knowingly at the crowd.)
Christopher: Got that right, Kyle. Edgy shows like this are so cool everyone will want to be gay.
Kyle: I want to be gay now!
Christopher: Too late for you Kyle. (They both laugh)