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The movie Bros: more than Friends, <\/em>by Nicholas Stoller, was billed as the first romantic comedy to star two gay characters. And indeed it is. Bobby Leiber (Billy Eichner) is a New Yorker who just wants to fall in love. An idea that the film’s first big trailer showed in all the elegant cuteness of it. Nevertheless, Bros: More Than Friends<\/em>\u00a0It is the most solid step of a phenomenon that shows a narrative and consequent evolution of the theme of gay love on the big screen.<\/p>\n

So it is a more subtle and complex idea than a typical romantic story. Beyond the \u201cboy meets boy\u201d formula, Stoller’s film is the first to break the taboo of recounting a relationship between two men in all its peculiarities<\/strong>. Bros: more than friends<\/em> He tells his argument from kindness. The premise of the shy guy who ends up falling in love with the popular guy is the same as millions of similar stories. In fact, it is the pattern of great movies in which romance is the fundamental trunk of the story.<\/p>\n

However, on this occasion, love and romance are wrapped in the gaze of American gay culture. Also in its guidelines and nuances. But even so, it remains a universal story. A friendly, sensitive and built to link with a larger audience than the natural one of a similar narrative. With a sizeable budget and within the distribution schedule of a major study, Bros: more than friends<\/em> it is a rarity. A transcendent step within the theme queer<\/em> in the world of Hollywood and, specifically, in the way that pop culture understands sexual diversity.<\/p>\n

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Bros: more than friends<\/h2>\n

Nicholas Stoller’s film Bros: More Than Friends was heralded as the first romantic comedy to star two gay characters. And indeed it is. Bobby Leiber (Billy Eichner) is a New Yorker who just wants to fall in love. An idea that the film’s first big trailer showed in all the elegant cuteness of it.
\nBut it is about something more subtle and complex than a love story. Beyond the “boy meets boy” formula, Stoller’s film is the first to break the taboo of recounting a gay relationship from kindness. Doing it, in addition, from the pattern of the great films in which romance is the fundamental trunk of the story.<\/em><\/p>\n

Bros: more than friends<\/em> and gay love on the big screen<\/h2>\n

Bros: more than friends<\/em> it is a transformation of the cinema with respect to its way of delving into gay emotional life. The film shows the context of a middle-aged man who, after a long journey, manages to find love. It may seem like a simple formula, until you remember that less than fifteen years ago the LGTBIQ+ community was a marginal part of cinema. One used, at best, as comic relief or as a center of drama and pain.<\/p>\n

However, the evolution has been clear. Not only in grand elegant arguments like The Power of the Dog<\/em> by Jane Campion or Portrait of a woman on fire<\/em> by Celine Sciamma<\/strong>. In 2020, the movie happy novelty<\/em>by Clea DuVall, showed a lesbian couple at the center of a troubled romance.<\/p>\n

With the same codes of the romantic comedy, Aby (Kirsten Stewart) and Harper (Mackenzie Davis) went through all the misadventures of a couple under family pressure. A situation to which we had to add the necessary debate on the sexual orientation of its protagonists. However, the film dared to delve into issues such as self-acceptance, identity and, in the end, love as a universal language.<\/p>\n