Bruno: Men, Tights, and Stereotypes

New York Times provides a detail look into the making of the Bruno Movie.

  • Elton John performs a song for the movie.
  • Straight men are prey in the world of Bruno.
  • Validate your homophobia at the multiplex.
  • “Real people, real [uncomfortable] situations.”
  • Bruno strips for former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.
  • Risks and rewards of movie studio that bought distribution rights to Bruno.
  • More “hot pants, leopard bikini underwear” than you can handle.
  • Meet “Gayby”, Bruno’s black baby.
  • Learn martial arts to defend against gay people.
  • Child endangerment by mother’s of child divas?
  • How do gay rights advocates feel?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/movies/14barn.htm

The Bruno movie is social commentary disguised as a flamboyantly gay documentary / candid camera comedy that captures peoples’ reactions at its truest forms revealing them as prejudice, homophobic and having no sense of reality verses staged comic gold.

Bruno with Microphone