Similarly, Outlander's depiction of the rape of Jamie Fraser ( Sam Heughan) at the hands of Capt.
There, the now-defunct series made clear the emotional toll, stigma and outright dismissal male rape survivors encounter. American Crime, for example, used the rape of a teenage boy by a more affluent male teenager as the jumping off point for its excellent Season 2. And unfortunately, this is not as nearly as insightful a take as shows that've gotten it right. That it is supposedly the pinnacle of degradation and a cause for shame means unpacking deeply held attitudes about sexuality and definitions of manhood. Yes, the idea that Snowfall uses a man's rape as the height of humiliation is unsettling. They know that even though Lenny is scum, nothing about what happened to him is funny - and he certainly didn't deserve it. Petrified with fear, Franklin and Leon are unable to speak or move at the sight of him. "He's like a master director.") Lenny meanwhile, makes eye contact with Franklin still handcuffed, bent over the bed, naked from the waist down and bleeding, he then stares into space in a way that makes his heartbreak visceral. (Singleton said director Daniel Attias deserved kudos for his treatment of the scene. is trying to get the money out of this guy and that's what he does."ĭespite the big grin on his face after he finishes his attack, Karvel is shot in a way that makes him look like a monster. What would he do totally humiliate him? I came up with that.
We talked about what would be the most shocking thing to see.
"In the writer's room," he said, "we were talking about interrogation procedures. John Singleton, who co-created the series, told TV Guide in an interview that the scene was his idea. For a while, Franklin and his buddy Leon (Isiah John) are unaware what's happening outside the room, until Leon pieces it together and tells Franklin, "He ain't killing him, he giving it to him." Both boys are terrified, and in that moment join a small minority of characters who've endured or witnessed a man be sexually assaulted.
Lenny still won't say where the money is, so Karvel drags him into a bedroom and rapes him. It happens when Karvel (Sheaun McKinney), a goon hired by the series' hero Franklin Saint ( Damson Idris) to steal back his money from Lenny (Craig Tate), elevates his violent interrogation to a horrific level. As we continue to make history, look back on these 20 same-sex kisses that defined the entertainment industry.A recent episode of Snowfall, though, mostly gives the crime the gravitas it deserves. The LGBTQ+ community in the media has come a long way, but there’s still a long way to go for queer romances to be shown as often as their heterosexual counterparts. While the kiss wasn’t romantic-the moment was between young handsome soldier John Powell and his dying friend David Armstrong-it was still a major moment in the LGBTQ+ community as the first kiss between two men on screen.įast forward to 2020, and you’ll be hard-pressed to find a network that doesn’t have a show with a romantic relationship between two characters of the same sex. The first same-sex kiss was in the 1927 silent film, Wings, an Oscar-winning romance war movie, which showed two male soldiers kissing in the trenches of World War I.
Compared to heterosexual kisses in the media, of which there have been hundreds of thousands, same-sex relationships on screen have been historically underrepresented, so we took it upon ourselves to highlight 20 same-sex kisses that have changed TV and movie history for the better. Since then, there have been dozens of gay kisses in TV shows and movies, but there needs to be more. It’s been more than 90 years since the first same-sex kiss was seen on screen.