Boy Culture

[babylondancer]

My fav movie at the moment.

Ever since I've seen Darryl Stephens in the first episode of Noah's arc I've been a huge fan of him. That guy screams sex with all of his body.
So I got boy culture a while ago because Darryl's in it.
Usually, I only watch films once, there are a few films I've seen twice, but not many I've seen more then twice. Well, and Boy Culture I've already seen 3 times.
Basically, that movie is sexy. Darryl Stephens is just as hot as in every movie he's ever made.
But then the film also is about issues we're all having with life and love and relationships.
It's about 3 gay guys living together. The owner of the appartment is X, a male hustler who starts to have a strange relation with an older client who becomes something like a shrink to him.
X is in love with Andrew, played by Darryl Stephens. Andrew loves him too, they both could live happily ever after if 1. they could admit that they're in love with each other and 2. they could find an arrangement because X wants a monogamous relationship, but doesn't want to give up hustling, and Andrew's not a one-man-guy, but doesn't want to be with a hustler.
Number 3 in the appartment is Joey, an 18-year-old student who got kicked out by his family and who's in love with X. As long as he can't have X he's having a lot of sex with his back-up-plans and with Andrew even though Andrew and X are treating Joey like their son.
Andrew and X are having quite a few sexy moments together in which they almost kiss, but they always back off in the last moment or something else comes in their way.
The whole situation excalates when X accompanies Andrew to the wedding of his ex-girlfriend as his partner and Andrew meets the guy he's always been in love with who turns out to be gay too.
But as it goes with american movies we'll get a happy sunshine ending.

[sheepiefarm]

Thanks for the heads up about this movie - I'd not heard about it before.
Just watched it - and totally loved it

It's now on my "to own" list - definitely gonna have to watch it again.

Point of note - Darryl Stephens is also in Another Gay Movie

[babylondancer]

Yep. But that movie was bs. It was nice to have a gay sex movie for once. But if you didn't like the american pie movies or Eis am Stiel in Germany you won't like another gay movie either I think. lol
Darryl Stephens though was hot in it too especially cause he wasn't wearing many clothes.

[wenn]

Yeah Nitty, it was filmed here in Seattle and the writer/director - Allan Brocka is from Seattle too! We went to see it in the theaters here a couple of years ago. Allan Brocka is also the guy who created "Rick and Steve - the Happiest Gay Couple in all the World"

[Princess Ollian]

OH and I just watched this the other day. Was very sceptical at first - the poor quality film they had used made it look a bit like a porno (not that I would know), but as it got going we quite enjoyed it... Have to say, probably wouldn't buy it, but glad I watched it.

[tihkon2]

Derek Magyar ( X) , is the sexiest thing I've ever seen.

[wenn]

Princess Ollian - I agree about the poor film quality and I do have to admit it wasn't the best film out there but I did enjoy it more than usual since it was Allan's film Hometown hero type thing lol

tihkon2 - Derek definitely caught my attention! *fans self*

[HQ75]

Allan Brocka is an independent film maker so I think the choice of "film quality" was a conscious one. I think with each of his films there is this kind of dark, fuzzy, insulated quality (like you're stepping into another world). Not saying he's like the best director or writer ever, just that he draws you into the logic of the film and the world of the characters.

I've seen Boy Culture more times than I can count and I always notice something I missed and I loved that it was so sexy without really being about sex at all.

I love that the initial idea of the film makes you think "Oh, it's just going to be all about sex" and instead it's this beautiful love story (well, multiple love stories) about how we as gay people make our own families and about how not living a "traditional" lifestyle doesn't mean you don't want/need the same things in your romantic and familial relationships: love, trust, compromise, honesty, security.

The lead romantic actors could not be more different in their experiences but I totally understood why they fell for each other and I totally understood why it was so hard for them to get together but why they also couldn't really let go.

It started out like this tug or war or chess game about different beliefs about sex, love, relationships, morality and in the end what they needed was to stop playing and try to really SEE each other for who they each were.

I just really related to X. God, the actor was like a master at conveying multiple levels of feeling in his facial expressions.

I've never done the sex for cash thing (I have no judgment, I guess I just think it's a job) but emotionally, I was right there with him.

The boxes he'd put himself in, the level of control he was trying to have over his life and feelings, etc. Particularly when they went on the road trip, guh, it was like watching myself at times in my life when I just wanted to shake myself for being a prat who couldn't get out of my own way when it came to dealing with women.

Anyway, I've thought too much about it I guess. I feel like a lot of gay men that I've seen on the boards just bypassed the film because of the cover and the premise (or because they have some kind of moral hangup about hustling in general) and that's too bad.

I recently watched it with my nephew who's gay and 15 and who has a totally supportive family of gay people and he was most moved by how the three guys created this bizarre but very real family structure (he recently lost his father who was also gay to a violent crime). To him it seemed great and they all seemed so lucky to have each other. We talked about how folks outside of that kind of situation might view it and related it to our own bizarre family of gay "aunts" and "uncles" none of whom are related by blood but who have been a close family unit for more than 20 years.

Anyway, I just love the movie a lot and I hope folks who haven't seen it will give it a chance.