jm barrie = queer?
Jun. 28th, 2010 11:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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queering_holmesi watched Finding Neverland over the weekend
there's an unnamed character with only one scene, where he explains to barrie that everyone thinks barrie's relationship to the Davies boys is ... problematic
in the commentary, the film makers point out the character was meant to be conan doyle and then they try to defend barrie's moral uprightness by saying "he wasn't at all a pedophile, if anything, he was asexual"
~sigh~
anyone have more of a clue?
i'm interested in barrie's relationship with doyle
as well as potential interpretations of barrie as closeted queer rather than the stereotypical slander of pedophile
(and, if this post is inappropriate for this comm, please let me know. i check the rules and i'm hoping i made a proper choice)
there's an unnamed character with only one scene, where he explains to barrie that everyone thinks barrie's relationship to the Davies boys is ... problematic
in the commentary, the film makers point out the character was meant to be conan doyle and then they try to defend barrie's moral uprightness by saying "he wasn't at all a pedophile, if anything, he was asexual"
~sigh~
anyone have more of a clue?
i'm interested in barrie's relationship with doyle
as well as potential interpretations of barrie as closeted queer rather than the stereotypical slander of pedophile
(and, if this post is inappropriate for this comm, please let me know. i check the rules and i'm hoping i made a proper choice)