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

Jesus, make him go away.

I'm shaking and crying!!

Seriously. Sick of him.

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

I think it’s great too

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

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

Two fugs does not a good poster make.

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.

Is this a lesbian story?

Wait a minute . . .

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What OP? Poster tells nothing of poster.

I actually really like that poster.

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

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.

It’s just a close-up of their faces!

Remind you of anything?

Looks like the cover of a bad YA novel

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

[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?

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

Reminds me of A Little Life cover

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

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.

[quote]Reminds me of A Little Life cover

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

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

The trailer

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.

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.

Too many "Pascals" around. I get confused.

Is the movie in black and white?

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

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

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

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

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

Hiss.

Hissssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!

Will there be dong?

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

And they would have been right.

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

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

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

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

[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).

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

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.

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.

R48 I fancy him, just wish he were hairier.

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

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.

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.

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

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

[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.

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.

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

He looks like a white dude

Background reading.

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

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.

^^they crossed the ice bridge from Siberia.

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

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.

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

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

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

[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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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,.

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