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Bros Is So Much More Than An LGBTQ+ Romcom - Why It's So Important
Warning: Contains spoilers for Bros.
Bros has been marketed as a gay quixotic comedy, however, the movie is so much more than that and it’s truly important. Bros was already breaking new ground by being the first LGBTQ+ romantic comedy from major studio as it clearly has Universal Studios’ strong support. The reality that the movie devoted to not just representing LGBTQ+ romance, but also did so by giving Bros a cast and crew that is almost entirely LGBTQ+ themselves is a huge deal.
On the surface, Bros is a story about Bobby (Billy Eichner) and Aaron (Luke Macfarlane) slowly falling in love. Both open their stories as gay men who have committed to their single lives and casual hookups. However, in true romcom fashion by the ending of Bros, they have committed to trying a relationship with each other (at least for a while).
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Reviews have praised Bros for breaking new ground, while also noting that it doesn’t necessarily feel fresh. However, Bros being a ro
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Romantic comedies, you either adore them or you cannot stand them. I would say I have a soft spot for them. There is something comforting about watching a heterosexual love story unfold from cheesy meet-cutes to dating montages to a one-sided breakup to grand gestures and happy endings. It&#;s formulaic and safe and I love watching one on occasion. Nowadays we&#;re getting more queer representation in the movies and queer rom-coms are starting to become a thing. Two years ago, there was that cute holiday movie &#;Happiest Season&#; but it wasn&#;t a global theatrical release, unfortunately. Now, however, Billy Eichner of &#;Billy on the Street&#; fame is aiming to sell one of the first gay romantic comedies with an all-queer cast and openly gay characters with &#;Bros&#;. It&#;s the movie with the poster with two guys grabbing each other&#;s asses and the one that unfortunately flopped at the box-office. According to Eichner, this is what gay people wanted to see in theatres but &#;Barbarian&#;s box-office numbers would say otherwise. It was quite an in
Everything you need to understand about groundbreaking LGBTQ+ romcom ‘Bros’
Can it really be true that the world is only now, in the year , getting a gay romantic comedy from a major Hollywood studio written by an openly gay person? Somehow it is. But the good news is that Hollywood given the honour of making it to Billy Eichner, whose dyspeptic comic sensibilities ensure that it definitely won’t just be a queer-themed Hallmark movie.
Bros, co-written by Eichner and Nicholas Stoller, who also directs, is described as ‘a smart, swoony and heartfelt comedy about how hard it is to find another tolerable human being to verb through life with’, which doesn’t sound too far off in spirit from Eichner’s Hulu series about caustic besties, Difficult People. Eichner also stars, alongside a majority-LGBTQ+ supporting cast occupying both gay and straight roles – another first.
All those milestones are great, but they’ll matter much less if the movie doesn’t dial true for the community the film is aimed at – something Eichner is
Bros Being Bros: The Resurrection of the Rom-Com
Right off the top, there is a blurb going around in the marketing campaign for Bros that lays out the fact that this is the first gay romantic comedy to get a wide theatrical release by a major studio as well as the first starring an entirely LGBTQ cast. (the director, Nicholas Stoller as far as I’m alert is cismale, straight.) The film, if nothing else, is a pride banner of inclusivity. That being said, it’s easy for a movie with such precedence to not verb that hard, to be devoid of worthwhile content. Things like a wonderful script, believable characters played by competent actors, and something along the lines of a quality message get sacrificed in the name of progress, let’s say.
That’s not the case here though. For one, Judd Apatow is attached as an executive producer, and, like him or not, he’s careful about the kind of comedy he attaches his identify to. Additionally, his call is nowhere to be found on the movie posters. Has he aged out of this movie’s expected demographic? If not, you’re expecting a raunchy, mildly offens