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First poster for “The History of Sound” starring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor

Amazing poster. Wow.

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by Anonymousreply 79August 29, 2025 1:40 PM

Jesus, make him go away.

by Anonymousreply 1July 23, 2025 5:47 PM

I'm shaking and crying!!

by Anonymousreply 2July 23, 2025 5:56 PM

Seriously. Sick of him.

by Anonymousreply 3July 23, 2025 5:56 PM

Beautiful poster. I actually love this. I would hang it on my wall

by Anonymousreply 4July 23, 2025 5:57 PM

I think it’s great too

by Anonymousreply 5July 23, 2025 6:13 PM

Unpopular opinion: O’Connor is more attractive than Mescal.

by Anonymousreply 6July 23, 2025 6:20 PM

Uh, that’s like vomit looking better than shit.

by Anonymousreply 7July 23, 2025 7:18 PM

Two fugs does not a good poster make.

by Anonymousreply 8July 23, 2025 7:29 PM

I just finished the short story collection this movie's based on. 12 stand alone but kind of interlocking stories. Engaging and touching. Their tale is the first story, with a sort-of coda in the final story.

by Anonymousreply 9July 23, 2025 7:54 PM

Is this a lesbian story?

by Anonymousreply 10July 23, 2025 7:55 PM

Wait a minute . . .

by Anonymousreply 11July 23, 2025 8:29 PM

Momma likes...

by Anonymousreply 12July 23, 2025 9:08 PM

What OP? Poster tells nothing of poster.

by Anonymousreply 13July 23, 2025 10:55 PM

I actually really like that poster.

I don't care about the movie, but the poster, yeah. That's a good poster.

by Anonymousreply 14July 23, 2025 11:13 PM

I don't get the Paul Mescal obsession. To me he looks like a bricklayer who beats his wife and gets in fistfights at the pub. Really low class.

by Anonymousreply 15July 23, 2025 11:17 PM

It’s just a close-up of their faces!

by Anonymousreply 16July 23, 2025 11:38 PM

Remind you of anything?

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by Anonymousreply 17July 24, 2025 2:48 AM

Looks like the cover of a bad YA novel

by Anonymousreply 18July 24, 2025 2:56 AM

The trailer for the movie was released today. See link.

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by Anonymousreply 19July 24, 2025 7:48 PM

[quote] To me he looks like a bricklayer who beats his wife and gets in fistfights at the pub. Really low class.

Wasn't he accused of bullying a gay classmate some years ago?

by Anonymousreply 20July 24, 2025 7:52 PM

The trailer looks wonderful. I'm in. September 12th!

by Anonymousreply 21July 24, 2025 7:58 PM

Reminds me of A Little Life cover

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by Anonymousreply 22July 24, 2025 9:10 PM

I love Hermanus's films... this premiered at Cannes and got tepid reviews, but I'm still excited by it.

by Anonymousreply 23July 24, 2025 9:13 PM

Other than a (forbidden) gay romance it's hard to tell what it's really about. Though beautifully shot.

Love Paul and Josh. Their American accents are impeccable.

by Anonymousreply 24July 24, 2025 9:19 PM

[quote]Reminds me of A Little Life cover

Your post reminds me how much I hated that piece of shit book.

by Anonymousreply 25July 24, 2025 9:21 PM

The trailer looks good. Can't wait to see this!

by Anonymousreply 26July 24, 2025 10:39 PM

The trailer

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by Anonymousreply 27July 24, 2025 10:46 PM

The film has very few reviews on Rottentomatoes and is barely rated as fresh. But even the negative reviews understand what the audience wants:

[quote] Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor do prove the captivating onscreen couple that all their fans hope they’d be, it’s just a pity that The History of Sound doesn’t provide as sweeping a canvas for them to paint as anticipated.

by Anonymousreply 28July 24, 2025 10:50 PM

I usually don't care about this, but it kind of irks me that they got a Brit and Irish to play these two American characters.

by Anonymousreply 29July 24, 2025 11:11 PM

Too many "Pascals" around. I get confused.

by Anonymousreply 30July 25, 2025 12:20 AM

Is the movie in black and white?

by Anonymousreply 31July 25, 2025 2:34 AM

If only the trailer would have provided a clue, R31.

by Anonymousreply 32July 25, 2025 2:50 AM

R25 Amen. My most despised book next to The Goldfinch.

by Anonymousreply 33July 25, 2025 2:54 AM

I'd rather a. movie about the true history of sound. Primates thought that sound was just occurring in their heads.

by Anonymousreply 34July 25, 2025 2:59 AM

This looks horrid and the reviews are scathing- Basically the film is a bore.

by Anonymousreply 35July 25, 2025 3:42 AM

I've liked every Hermanus film I've seen. Looking forward, even if the subject matter and the hillbilly accents aren't my thing.

by Anonymousreply 36July 25, 2025 1:30 PM

Hiss.

Hissssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!

by Anonymousreply 37July 25, 2025 1:34 PM

Will there be dong?

by Anonymousreply 38July 25, 2025 3:16 PM

[quote] Primates thought that sound was just occurring in their heads.

And they would have been right.

by Anonymousreply 39July 28, 2025 4:02 AM

[quote]I usually don't care about this, but it kind of irks me that they got a Brit and Irish to play these two American characters.

I don't have a big problem with that. My problem is that these two characters should be played by openly gay actors -- not 2 straight guys.

by Anonymousreply 40July 28, 2025 7:23 AM

By your logic, gay actors should never be allowed to play straight characters.

by Anonymousreply 41July 28, 2025 7:57 AM

They both seem to be making something of a career out of playing gay characters. And are quite good at it.

by Anonymousreply 42July 28, 2025 8:22 AM

Paul’s biggest roles are playing straight. So no, he isn’t making a career of playing gay.

by Anonymousreply 43July 28, 2025 8:56 AM

I laughed at comment on another website that described both actors as "Our favorite G4P actors"

by Anonymousreply 44July 28, 2025 9:54 AM

[quote]I don't have a big problem with that. My problem is that these two characters should be played by openly gay actors -- not 2 straight guys.

There aren't that many openly gay actors, though. Do we really want Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer to play all the gay characters?

Film stars like Kate Winslet have said there are many who don't want to come out (and indeed many of them are suspected on here). I can understand why if they think they're only going to play gay characters from then on.

That said, I suspect some straight actors express resistance to playing gay given many of the same straight actors play gay characters. Mescal was in 'All of Us Strangers' and O'Connor was in 'God's Own Country' and 'Challengers' (I know the latter wasn't a solely gay role, but it had a same-sex scene).

by Anonymousreply 45July 28, 2025 10:24 AM

R43 Sorry Paul, wouldn't have expected it to be such a sensitive topic for you.

by Anonymousreply 46July 28, 2025 10:27 AM

Bailey and Bomer are so pretty, they're not right for everything. And Bomer is a meh actor, in my opinion.

The exciting one is Andrew Scott. Really enjoying his career.

by Anonymousreply 47July 31, 2025 3:09 AM

R15 I don’t get it either but I’m also half Irish from Boston with an Irish American population and guys who look like him aren’t that hard to find. They’re everywhere. He’s no Colin Farrell.

I feel like today, Hollywood is picking relatability over “movie star looks”. Mescal and Florence Pugh would have never broken through as young lead actors 10 years ago or any time before that. Their looks are so basic.

by Anonymousreply 48July 31, 2025 4:01 AM

R48 I fancy him, just wish he were hairier.

by Anonymousreply 49July 31, 2025 4:37 AM

Trailer looks beautiful. I've never seen any of Hermanus' films. What do the cinema buffs think is his finest film?

by Anonymousreply 50July 31, 2025 7:09 AM

Was not the least bit interested until I saw that trailer. Looks like it could be a good movie. If the actors were more attractive it would be even better.

by Anonymousreply 51July 31, 2025 7:22 AM

Marc Bendavid played a married young father on Reacher S1. He's 42 now, Canadian, and has a Belgian mother and a Moroccan Jewish father. I had never seen him before Reacher and in his first scene I thought "that guy is really cute and that face and body seems GAY GAY GAY, to me." Yep, gay and partnered.

Just a tangent. I guess he played the secondary character well enough despite seeming uber gay to me.

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by Anonymousreply 52July 31, 2025 9:24 AM

PS, his boyfriend is François Arnaud, another cute French Canadian actor who works all the time.

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by Anonymousreply 53July 31, 2025 9:28 AM

R52 Having parents with such diverse international heritage, how does he manage to look so thoroughly Canadian?

by Anonymousreply 54July 31, 2025 10:31 AM

[quote]Having parents with such diverse international heritage, how does he manage to look so thoroughly Canadian?

Belgians are lily white Europeans, dear. And Jews are also white.

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by Anonymousreply 55July 31, 2025 12:11 PM

I'm tired of him but I'm more tired of the person who keeps using him here as a cold mackerel to slap us with.

by Anonymousreply 56July 31, 2025 12:24 PM

If you say so. I think he looks Mizrahi Jew.

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by Anonymousreply 57July 31, 2025 1:16 PM

He looks like a white dude

by Anonymousreply 58July 31, 2025 1:19 PM

Background reading.

Yes he's white. "Mizrahi" jews run from Iraq to Morocco. Many skin colors, mostly more or less caucasian.

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by Anonymousreply 59July 31, 2025 1:42 PM

Canadian and American isn't really an ethnicity. Melting pots. Amerindians have a longer claim to looking American or Canadian. But they were immigrants too, at one time.

by Anonymousreply 60July 31, 2025 1:43 PM

^^they crossed the ice bridge from Siberia.

by Anonymousreply 61July 31, 2025 2:01 PM

Some of those amazonian horse hung young men on Chaturbate kind of look like Skinny Ripped Eskimos.

by Anonymousreply 62July 31, 2025 3:22 PM

R55 What?? I wasn't referring to his skin color, dear. I was talking about the flat, open, benign-looking, generically non-threatening, attractive countenance that so many Canadian men share. Ala Ryan Reynolds.

by Anonymousreply 63July 31, 2025 10:25 PM

"flat, open, benign-looking, generically non-threatening, attractive countenance" could describe North Africans.

by Anonymousreply 64July 31, 2025 10:51 PM

His father's a Jew from Morocco, not ethnically Moroccan.

by Anonymousreply 65July 31, 2025 11:35 PM

R64 Yeah, it can at times also describe my ass.

by Anonymousreply 66July 31, 2025 11:52 PM

[quote] My most despised book next to The Goldfinch.

Just curious, do you actually complete a book of that length when all the while you're hating it?

by Anonymousreply 67July 31, 2025 11:58 PM

r67 I'm not the poster you're talking to but I have a weird thing were if I start reading a book I HAVE to finish it, even if the book is awful. I don't know why.

by Anonymousreply 68August 1, 2025 12:19 AM

That should've been "a weird thing WHERE." Sorry. I wish we had an edit function.

by Anonymousreply 69August 1, 2025 12:19 AM

R68 I was a voracious reader; similarly, I would read anything and everything, whether I liked it or not. Then I quit smoking. Haven't been able to get through a book since, going on 20 years. My limit is now about 2 paragraphs for any random online shit. TLDR now defines my relationship with the printed word.

by Anonymousreply 70August 1, 2025 7:24 AM

North African Jews are both North Africans AND citizens of their country. His father was North African and Moroccan. But not Arab.

by Anonymousreply 71August 1, 2025 10:02 AM

We'd be even more excited if Mescal looked like Theo James and sounded like Josh Groban.

by Anonymousreply 72August 4, 2025 2:48 PM

Eldergays are so funny with their rigid, unmovable beauty standards. Both of these guys are very good actors and undeniably sexy.

by Anonymousreply 73August 4, 2025 3:43 PM

I will deny Paul Mescal's sex appeal now and forever. Even if he were to do OF or porn. He's a mealy red potato of a man with eyes growing out of it,.

by Anonymousreply 74August 5, 2025 9:07 PM

Fun OT fact: the photo on A Little Life is "Orgasmic Man, 1969," by Peter Hujar.

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by Anonymousreply 75August 5, 2025 9:44 PM

Here's a short clip from the movie. The movie is supposed to be released September 12th in the USA.

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by Anonymousreply 76August 29, 2025 4:45 AM

Paul Mescal is just so fucking naturally sexy.

by Anonymousreply 77August 29, 2025 4:47 AM

When Paul first broke big a few years ago he used to live in my area. I often saw him out running in the park, sometimes with his shirt off.

by Anonymousreply 78August 29, 2025 1:40 PM

Paul looks so cute clean-cut cut.

by Anonymousreply 79August 29, 2025 1:40 PM
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