{"id":124973,"date":"2023-02-12T22:12:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T16:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/the-true-events-that-inspired-the-dramatic-story-starring-brendan-fraser\/"},"modified":"2023-02-12T22:12:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T16:42:22","slug":"the-true-events-that-inspired-the-dramatic-story-starring-brendan-fraser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/the-true-events-that-inspired-the-dramatic-story-starring-brendan-fraser\/","title":{"rendered":"the true events that inspired the dramatic story starring Brendan Fraser"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The interpretation of Brendan Fraser in ‘The Whale’ is one of the favorites for the 2023 Oscar Awards. The A24 film is scripted by Samuel D Hunter<\/strong>who confesses to having inspired by various events in his life to create the dramatic story directed by Darren Aronofsky<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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‘The Whale’ tells us the story of Charlie, a literature professor who teaches online because he is obese and can barely move. The script is in charge of Samuel D. Hunter, author also of the play on which the film is based<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Although the tape is not autobiographical, Hunter does acknowledge that there are several aspects of his life that have influenced the construction of the story, such as the small religious community in which he grew up, his childhood as a gay teenager or his relationship with food<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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‘The Whale’ was the first time I said to myself, “Okay, I’m going to get into some very personal stuff, it’s going to be pretty visceral, and I know it’s not exactly cool the way the character will expose their feelings.” He was a gay kid. My family was not evangelical but I had a pretty bad time in elementary school. He was a fat boy and very socially awkward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite coming from an Episcopal family, Hunter attended an evangelical school<\/strong> and he tried to follow the doctrines that he was taught there but felt that, although they gave “a clear sense of what was right and what was wrong”, he did not quite fit them:<\/p>\n

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I realized that he was gay. But he was so young that I was convinced that it would pass, I just had to pray, not think about boys and ask God to change me. But it didn’t work, even if I tried.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The screenwriter remembers how catastrophic his coming out of the closet was and how he fell into a depression upon reaching university, where he began to self-medicate<\/strong> with food:<\/p>\n

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I started self-medicating with food, which is something I did as a kid but got worse very quickly in college. Finally, little by little I was able to find support and therapy. I found a way to get out of there. My husband, whom I met in 2005 and have been together ever since, was my greatest support. When I started writing this play I thought, “What if this story is about someone who couldn’t find that way out that I did and stayed in my hometown?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Thus, many aspects of Charlie’s life are inspired by events from his childhood and also the plot of the religious boy who goes from door to door. LThe city where the protagonist lives is also inspired by the screenwriter’s hometown<\/strong>: Moscow (in the state of Idaho), as can be seen in the gown of the Hong Chau character where it says Gritman Medical Center, a hospital located in that town.<\/p>\n

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