Filmmaker Jordan Firstman (The Disgustings) dated a lot of older guys in his twenties.
“There’s an ocean of difference between people who lived through AIDS and people who didn’t,” he tells Out.
“We’re all expected to understand each other, but with straight people there isn’t that expectation — old and young straight people aren’t expected to get each other.”
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Firstman’s new short film Call Your Father revolves around middle-aged, mild-mannered Greg (Craig Chester) and young, brash “aspiring poet” Josh (played by Firstman). The two men go on a date and quickly discover the generational divide is the least of their problems.
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“I had written both the characters as versions of myself,” Firstman tells Out. “I’d just turned 25 and felt like I was over the phase of my life where I was a young, impulsive asshole making bad decisions all the time. But I wasn’t ready to be old and boring yet. So I wrote both characters as the worst case scenario of both those things.”
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Xzamilloh
Okay that straight comparison is nonsense. The only time they aren’t expected to get each other is when the rest of the public or their close knit circles have already come to the conclusion that either one’s a gold digger or the other is with a gold digger lol
Xzamilloh
In fact, I contend that other than the usually cradle robber, gold digger comment, most people don’t think too hard about May-December romances. Besides, you can quickly realize that you have even less in common with people your own age.
Eiswirth
I would’ve put up with that immature, self-absorbed, intellectually void little shit for 15 minutes.
rand503
I try to be nice. I would have given it 30 minutes. but then I would regret that I didn’t end it sooner.
ChrisK
Better then I expected.
Verlaine
Wha? They both have dark hair, beards – can’t tell the difference between them. If you’re going show a picture of a disparate relationship, at least make the younger one blond or the older one bald. Geesh.
fayroberts
I think that’s the point…
Heywood Jablowme
The young guy is unbearable.
Bopper1
…the knee-jerk reaction is that older/younger doesn’t work very well or is financially driven…it can work very well…what’s key is that both parties are crazy about each other…ya know, like in any other relationship…
stevetalbert
I liked the short. It’s not exageration, though. They both have issues. I dont think i would have ever made it to the meet up, so good to see it play out. At first i coukdnt inderstand why the older guy woukd wadte time looking for him adter the shop lifting.. much less go to the shop after the first bar scene. Since he likes them young…its always about the piece of ass.
Heywood Jablowme
Yeah – I had sympathy for the older guy until the kid said “You’ve f*cked ALL my friends, I know what you’re into.”
ChrisK
Yeah, the kid may have been f*cked up but when I heard him say that it made sense why he treated him like such crap. The kid was less a human being to him and just another young piece of ass he wanted bad.
rand503
Good points. they both have a lot to deal with. That’s why it was so cringe inducing.
EvonCook
From earliest times, the gay dynamic scared the shit out of the heteros and was seen to challenge if not destroy or at least turn their values topsy-turvy, so the abrahamic religions that came to dominate penalized, criminalized and demonized the gay “wild” card, our people and our possibilities. There is no doubt for any truly gay person, that we are subversive to hetero horrid power, emotional and family structures, but that is no reason we should now surrender our unique qualities of love to become subserviant to their endless and pervasive biases for a few crumbs to sit at the table and pretend we are just like them. We are not, and the love between two gay people will never depend on or be anticipated and blessed for their potential reproductive quota, as is the basis for hetero relationships and marriage. We have something much more special, let’s not lose it, and let’s try to celebtrate it.
Rex Huskey
…more like a chasm.
steve_michaels
Anyone notice how much this story ‘compares’ to the story line in the second episode of Will & Grace this season? Hmmm the chicken and the egg?
geb1966
I find it interesting that the film maker said he wrote both characters as “versions of himself” when he obviously cold only project what he has observed about the older version.
My best friend is in this kind of relationship. He is so desperate to have a young pretty boyfriend that he is willing to out up with such immature, idiotic behavior. And each version of the boy gets younger as he gets older.
o.codone
The noose symbolizing the end of gay culture. OMG, that rings true. Okay, with that said and out of the way, the old guy should have just sexed the kid and checked out of that crazy youth hostel.
o.codone
The noose symbolizing the end of gay culture. OMG, that rings so true. Okay, with that said, the older guy should have just sexed the kid and checked out of that crazy kindergarten.
o.codone
oh, sorry, sorry. it’s the drugs.
tazz602
I don’t know anyone, young or old that even comes remotely close to that young dipshit and I have no clue what this film is supposed to be exploring in real life? Why did the older guy put up with him at all?? I would have let him leave at the bar and done something else with my night.
atrocchia
The “date” would’ve lasted less than five minutes with that drug-addled twink. No way would I have put up with it as much as the older guy did.