#milk 2008

[tyger-land]

𝗚𝘂𝘀 𝗩𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝘁 Untitled. Watercolor/2011.

[camellialikestowatch]

Milk (2008) dir. Gus Van Sant | Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, James Franco

A whole month of queer movies for pride 🌈 [25/30]

[lyledebeast]

One thing I'm still thinking about after my rewatch of Milk (2008) is how effectively it manages to make Anita Bryant feel like a major antagonist without casting an actress to play her. Her presence is made up entirely of television appearances recorded in the 1970s and spliced into the film. Pride (2014) does something kind of similar with Margaret Thatcher, but there is only one television clip there, and most references to Thatcher are verbal only. There's just something about the contrast between Bryant's careful construction of herself as a gentle, wholesome Christian woman and the fear and rage her actions inspired in gay people . . . whoooo. Chills. No actor could've made her as terrifying as she made herself.

[filmjunky-99]

m i l k, 2008 🏳️‍🌈 dir. gus van sant james franco

[buotella]

I am not a candidate. I am part of a movement. The movement is the candidate.

MILK (2008) dir. Gus Van Sant

[cithaerons]

And then being not just gay but Mexican in this country, I'm sure it was tough. He had a very self-destructive personality, but at the same time he had a lot of love to give. I heard from people that met him that he was a guy that when he was happy, it was obvious that he was happy, he was giving love to everyone, laughing and enjoying and sharing that happiness. He was a guy who was ready to give himself. He had something there, though, that not even he accepted: When everyone tells you you're not who they want you to be, and you believe it, then you start to hate yourself in a way that's never going to let you really enjoy life. He had love, he had friends, he belonged somewhere, yet it was never enough for him.

Diego Luna on playing Harvey Milk’s lover Jack Lira in Milk (2008) 

[lakemichigans]

Favorite Movies: MILK (2008).

If there is to be an assassination... I ask for the movement to continue. Because it's not about personal gain, and it's not about ego, and it's not about power. It's about the "us-es" out there. And not just the gays, but the blacks, and the Asians, and the seniors and the disabled. The "us-es". Without hope, the "us-es" give up. And I know you can't live on hope alone, but without hope, life is not worth living. So you, and you, and you − you gotta give 'em hope.

[peoplesprincesshyacinth]

I just watched “Milk” (2008) and I did some online reading about Harvey Milk after and I’m so astounded because I never learnt anything about him in school. I watched an interview with James Franco (who was in the movie), and he apparently had no idea about who Harvey Milk was/what he did until he was to do the film.

Why is there not more awareness about him? About how Harvey Milk was the first openly gay person elected into a major office? I just think people should know about him.