While there are plenty of gay directors working in Hollywood, it’s interesting that some of our most resonant big-screen homoeroticism has come from straight directors, a group Linklater may now find himself surprised to join.
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The movie convinced me that somehow, nothing is gayer than being a heterosexual man. Their T-shirts might as well be painted on - you can almost tell the weather by looking to the perky nipples of star Blake Jenner - and the ballplayers’ hijinx are as unself-consciously homoerotic as can be. Everybody Wants Some!! is set in 1980, where men’s fashion kept everything tight and short, and the college ballplayers in the movie aren’t afraid to show off in front of each other. It’s an image so sexy that the friend I saw the film with actually let out a yelp, but Linklater holds the shot like it’s no big deal, and the young men who share the scene with Hoechlin are similarly unfazed. The camera hangs at crotch level, gazing up at the tanned abs that Hoechlin’s crop top leaves uncovered, while the actor’s muscular left arm is tucked behind his head, his armpit an erogenous zone on confident display.
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If you have any eye at all for the male form, you’ll know the moment when you see it: It’s the shot where Tyler Hoechlin, as college ballplayer McReynolds, reclines on a couch, his barely clothed body draped over the piece of furniture like an artful provocation.
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There’s a shot in Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! that is so casually obscene, I couldn’t believe a straight director filmed it.