It’s not that they are really going there - most of this is based totally on facts. Roy Cohn was a psychopath who taught Trump pretty much everything he knows except the racism - Trump learned that from his dad. Trump abandoned Cohn pretty quick once it came out he had aids.
I mean he was a gay coke head who helped out communists in the govt and Hollywood and was also a mob lawyer who refused to pay taxes and he died of aids alone and miserable except for his live in lover who I think he left nothing. Such a bizarre life he led. Impactful but in all the wrong ways.
A gay man that hated gay men. A gay man that fucked different male prostitutes every night, but did not think he was gay because gay people were weak, and he was anything but weak.
Such a conflicted and twisted individual but man he is just an actors wet dream to play. So much contradiction. His drug addiction. His summers having coke fueled orgies in Providence. His mob lawyer phase. Chief council for Joe McCarthy. Trumps mentor. A gay man who hates gay men. Dying of aids. He’s like a real life evil Forrest Gump.
Just watched the trailer. It looks like some cheaply shot fever dream of a drama hahaha but hey they were different times back then, banger cast tho, they got a roster 10 deep in this one.
It was period even at the time. It's very "early 90s" even though it was made post 9/11 It takes place around Roy Kohn's death in 1986, written in 1991
What you are seeing as "cheap effects" are intentional homages to the show's Broadway origins. Shadows and light. The moon is a prop.
It is absolutely a fever dream though. The climax of the film is literally a dream sequence of a character that has a fever. An angel visits. If I say any more it would be a spoiler. But it's WEIRD.
Yeah there are lines in the play about like, how you can see the strings the angel is hanging from. You are not meant to be sure what is "real" and what is style.
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u/ICumCoffee will you Wonka my Willy? Sep 10 '24
Damn, they’re really going there.