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O MUNDO QUEER DOS FILMES DE


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GREGG ARAKI
Exagerado, surreal e até mesmo indutor de “trauma”, o mundo
estranho dos filmes inteligentes, desafiadores e coloridos e
excêntricos de Gregg Araki seduz.

Por
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(https://www.popmatters.com/author/seth-troyer)Seth Troyer
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/ 9 de outubro de 2023

Ouça este artigo

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que há com essas crianças hoje?” Pais e artistas POP-ROCK NÃO É PARA AS
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Suas visões eram inabalavelmente estranhas, sexualmente explícitas e não
tinham nenhum medo de ceder ao niilismo da época. 'HERE COME THE WARM
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quase sempre presente. Seus mundos explodem em explosões de cores e PIKE)
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visões devaneios de Araki, muitas vezes vindo de subgêneros do rock como PIKE)
Dream Pop e Shoegaze, usando feedback barulhento e camadas de efeitos de
guitarra que podem ser lindamente pop e dissonantemente desanimadores. CHRISTONE “KINGFISH”
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desanimador quando você percebe que o mundo é um lugar escuro que pode
não ter nenhum significado inerente. Araki quer nos dizer que a vida não

termina em desilusão; é aí que tudo começa. Da escuridão, seus personagens

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saem para criar significado e razão para viver. Esse aspecto faz de Araki muito -46% -52%

mais do que apenas um diretor que faz “filmes gays”. Ele continua sendo um
dos artistas mais subestimados de sua geração. Queerness, no que diz respeito
a Gregg, parece ter menos a ver com quem vamos para a cama e mais com a -45%

ideia de que não existem regras definidas para amar e viver. Nossas vidas são
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Abaixo está uma classificação da maior parte da filmografia de Araki. Seus PUBLIQUE COM
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alguns públicos devido à sua escolha de conteúdo ou à sua POPMATTERS
natureza às vezes exagerada, mas se você gosta de apenas um filme de Araki,
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você faz parte do culto. POPMATTERS BUSCA
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divergem e depois se encontram novamente. Neil é um traficante gay atr-film- INVERNO 2023-24
sonhador e caótico (interpretado por Joseph Gordon Levit), e Brian (Brady winter- (HTTPS://WWW.POPMATTERS.
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Em muitos aspectos, Mysterious Skin é o melhor de todas as coisas de Gregg
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passados, às vezes, podem entrar em conflito com o que é mostrado.
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As always, Araki’s music choices help tell the story. The shimmering guitar and ESCRITORES MUSICAIS
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“vibe” as it is a dramatic character study. Looking back on childhood,
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how idyllic or chaotic it may have been for you, can be a
haunting, ghostly experience, and few films capture that collision of memories
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and ability to feel both familiar and unknowable than Mysterious Skin. It also
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even the straightest, all-American boy as queer as a $3 bill.
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The Doom Generation (1995)


The Doom Generation is like the goth kid who always looked like they hated
you until you finally hung out with them and realized they were a total
sweetheart. This might be the most Gen X movie of all time. Cartoonish, over-
the-top violence amongst vapid nihilistic characters abounds in The Doom

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Generation. While most of the Gregg Araki world exists in a Slowdive


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in a Nine Inch Nails nightmare.

The Doom Generation is the second film in Greggs’s thematically linked


Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy. Despite its sometimes very (very) rough edges,
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seen as Araki’s muse, brings a dreamy-eyed, sometimes ditsy, bisexual energy


to the character Jordan White,
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Kanu Reeves.
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Jordan and his girlfriend, the gothy and impossibly cool Alice White, played by
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then up-and-coming Rose Mcgowen, cross paths with an extreme (to say the
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as “X” (Jonathan Schaech) who involves the couple
in a hilariously over the top violent rampage. Together, the threesome go on
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the run, doing their best to escape law enforcement and Alice’s often
murderous ex-boyfriends.
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undeniably sexy interactions between the three very horny main characters as
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they explore and navigate jealousy, honesty, and sexual experimentation while
out on the road. A running
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Indeed, in The Doom Generation, there is extreme violence, nihilism, and
darkness, but his work almost always has an equal amount of childlike
optimism, love, and joy. In this way, Araki, even at his most outrageous and
hyperbolic, strikes a balance that seems something like the truth.

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Smiley Face (2007)


In many ways, Smiley Face (https://www.popmatters.com/sxsw-2007-film-day-
4) is the outlier in Gregg Araki’s filmography. This foray into the stoner genre is
among the most underrated in Araki’s catalog and among the most underrated
comedies of its era. Smiley Face plays like a much sillier version of the Coen
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Comparing Smiley Face to a Thomas Pynchon
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adaptation might seem hyperbolic until you pause the film at its midpoint and
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try to map out the whirlwind of happenstance and misadventure that caused
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from point A to point Z. In many ways, it feels true to life. Even
the most ordinary day is full of misdirection, information overload, and a need
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to improvise when things don’t go as planned.
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Anna Ferris as Jane F. shines, creating a believable, ditzy, and loveable stoner
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follow along with even when she’s making questionable
judgments that will get her over her head into trouble. Araki directed but did
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not write Smiley Face. Despite his obvious talent as a writer, turning the job
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elevates this project. Haggerty remains relatively
unsung (he doesn’t even have a Wiki page!) with only a few notable writing
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credits. It can be easy to take Smiley Face‘s crazy plot for granted until you take
a moment to think about what went into the creation of the genuinely witty
dialogue and surprisingly intricate chain of events.

What begins as a simple romp evolves and gets tangled up into something
that makes you wonder, “Wait, how the hell did Jane F. go from accidentally
eating pot cupcakes to talking to god on top of a Ferris wheel while holding an
original copy of the Communist Manifesto?” It’s a great question. You’ll want to
grab another cupcake and Smiley Face again.

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Nowhere (1997)
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TELEVISÃO Gregg Arakis’ earlier, more cartoonishly, chaotic, and
downright pop art phase of his career. It is the final entry in the Teenage
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Apocalypse Trilogy, and you can tell that Araki is pushing his campy style to
some outrageous, queer, grand finalé.
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in a colorful world that feels sculpted from the zeitgeist of all
things “late ’90s” where everything is rushing toward doom and the coming of
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Y2K switch to a new century. Here, we follow an ensemble of characters whose
youthful bedrooms are outrageously impressionistic sets where words are
projected on the walls, and lighting can change at the utterance of a single
word.

Nowhere also has giant insects and laser gun-wielding lizard people. Sure, it’s
over the top, like a youthful tantrum. For some, that might be annoying. For
adventurous viewers, however, Nowhere is a film you must see to believe. By
its end, your eyes may be burning from the vivid colors, and you might feel as if
you’ve been eating sour candies for the last two hours – a sugar rush with an
odd aftertaste. This is Nowhere.

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Totally Fucked Up (1993)
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Here, scenes of teenage misadventure, often centered around finding love, sex,
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from everyday frustrations, are punctuated with shaky cam
interview confessions with the main characters, most of whom identify as gay
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or lesbian. From go, the teens in Totally Fucked Up set a trend, often opening
with the most over-the-top, dramatic stance they can take and saying things
like: “I’m totally fucked up and I uhh don’t have any friends…” Such scenes are
followed by timid backtracking or a scene where we cut back to the film’s
events to show the narrator’s unreliability.

We see a loyal friend group of gay kids who support and love each other. It can
be easy to call these teens out for being self-absorbed, dramatic, and even
hypocritical, but anyone who is close with a teen or remembers what it’s like to
be that age knows that such inconsistencies in character are essential and are
to be expected in adolescence.

Totally Fucked Up could be dismissed as a collage of episodic meanderings, but


it is simply to the film’s credit, and in line with its spirit, that Araki didn’t feel
the need to introduce some obvious, climactic moment or some artificial gun-
wielding pay off. Sorry to spoil that fact about Totally Fucked Up. “Whatever. It
doesn’t matter. Nothing matters…right?”

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The Living End (1992)
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Gay Bonnie and Clyde? On the run for shooting a homophobic cop? Who could
resist that? Your republican
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been diagnosed with AIDS and know that neither of them
has long to live. “Fuck it!” This is the mantra of this fast-paced, micro-budget
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cry of anger in an age when gay men were dying, and the world didn’t seem to
care.

The Living End introduces the dawn of Gregg Araki’s campy sense of art
direction. He pulls no punches, letting this road movie be a platform for
communicating the pain that comes from being “bothered”, and being among
the dying. The Living End has a rough, homemade quality that helps hammer
home its nature as a passion project.

The Living End is considered by many to be Araki’s feature film debut, but he
made two additional movies before this one. Three Bewildered People in the
Night (1987) and The Long Weekend (1989) precede The Living End, but getting
quality copies seems impossible. From what little I can gather about them, it
seems they served as “practice runs” for Araki anyway. Does that make me an
“Araki poser”?

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Splendor (1999)
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Splendor is a perfect bubble gum pop song-like tribute to nontraditional
couplings. This is the story
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that ensues as the characters try their damndest to make it all work. It is most
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in Gregg Araki’s world of campy, colorful sets that are filled with
new-millennium glitz and glam.
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Splendor‘s characters are like sexy versions of Hanna-Barbera cartoon
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(if a little hyperbolic) believability. It comes from a place of genuine experience
with and affection for “unorthodox” relationships.

Araki has often identified himself as a gay man who has dated women
throughout his career, for which he has caught flack from some fans. This
happens with queer folks who are held up to be “examples” for their
community.

Splendor proves that even in a film that some might consider a “lesser work”,
Araki is consistent in his goal of breaking down barriers rather than building
them. With Splendor he argues, if you will, that our relationship with love and
sex is not fixed but an ever-changing process. Why have less, Splendor says,
when you can have more?

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Kaboom (2010)
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and shoulders more interesting than half the stuff
coming out these days.
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Apocalypse Trilogy that didn’t make it into the first three films. It
is, however, absolutely worth it to see Araki return to the pop art camp of his
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earlier style, this time with a bigger budget.

Os personagens de Kaboom são bichas adoráveis ​e malucas que estão


tentando atravessar seus relacionamentos e explorar suas identidades. O
enredo é um tanto episódico e vem completo com um culto de bombas
nucleares cheio de fanáticos que usam máscaras de animais. Parece incrível,
não é?

Talvez eu precise dar outro relógio ao Kaboom , como agora. Sempre vale a
pena escapar do tédio do dia a dia para voltar ao arco-íris que é o mundo de
Araki.

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Pássaro Branco em uma Nevasca (2014)
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TELEVISÃO obra. White Bird in a Blizzard também prova que, apesar
do estilo excêntrico de Araki, ele também pode trabalhar bem em projetos
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A era millennial inaugurou uma versão mais mainstream, menos ousada e
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da mídia adolescente e queer (como visto no período de
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ansiosa para a era milenar com uma elegância surpreendente.

Em muitos aspectos, o enredo de White Bird in a Blizzard é como um mistério


de assassinato de John Green voltado especificamente para fãs de ficção YA
que podem assistir a filmes classificados como R. Ainda assim, o estilo
característico de Araki não pode ser escondido, independentemente da
natureza do projeto em que ele está trabalhando. Embora White Bird in a
Blizzard seja muito mais manso do que Totally Fucked Up , a sexualidade
juvenil não é evitada aqui e é tratada com seu patenteado senso permissivo de
alegria em relação à expressão sexual, mesmo quando expressa em situações
abaixo do ideal.

Araki e Shailene Woodley ( Vida Secreta do Adolescente Americano ), que


interpreta o jovem herói, formam uma equipe eficaz. Woodley se esforça e
cresce em sua profissão neste filme. Tal como acontece com todos os filmes de
Araki, a trilha sonora desempenha um papel essencial em fazer com que as
reflexões sinceras e a sensação fantasmagórica deste filme funcionem.

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enfatiza o mundo temperamental de White Bird in a Blizzard . White Bird in a
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