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'Fantastic Beasts' director says Dumbledore is closeted in film
The director of Fantastic Beasts 2 has confirmed what die-hard fans of the Harry Potter universe own known all along - that Dumbledore is gay.
Just not, er, openly so. Yet.
Ever since it was revealed that the sequel to Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them would feature a juvenile Albus Dumbledore, fans hold speculated as to whether the future headmaster's sexuality, first brought up by J.K. Rowling herself, would be touched on.
Speaking to Empire Magazine, director David Yates said that while Dumbledore isn't “out as a gay man in the film”, the wizard's sexuality will be explored in future sequels.
“This part of this huge narrative that Jo [Rowling] is creating doesn’t focus on his sexuality, but we’re not airbrushing or hiding it," Yates said.
“The story [of the romantic relationship] isn’t there in this particular movie but it’s clear in what you see… that he is gay.
He added: “A couple of scenes we shot are very sensual moments of him and [romantic interest] the young Grindewald.”
I know I’m far from the first person to write on the homosexual subtext of this motion picture, but I wrote an article about my views for Irish magazine Nós, and my non-Irish-speaking friends wanted a translation.
So here is my reading of Fantastic Beasts.
*Spoiler alert!*
The Private world
At the centre of the story are four characters, three who acquire magic and one no-maj.(You can figure out what that means for yourself.)
The no-maj Jacob is our eyes and ears for the film, and he spends most of it in state of awe and wonder as he takes in the wondrous magical world that has secretly always been there, a world filled with interesting, beautiful creatures, most of whom are extremely well dressed. It’s a neat comparison.
Jacob spends most of the clip making faces like this:
And this:
By the way, Newt Scamander carries his Fantastic Beasts (Fabulous Beasts more like, amirite?) in a suitcase. Tell me this, what is a suitcase other than a portable closet?
At one signal the no-maj Jacob literally jumps feet first into the suitcase (read: closet, read: queer world).
Jacob is enthralled by the variety of magical creatures he encounters, big and small, scaly and
Fantastic Beasts 2's Dread of a Male lover Dumbledore is Stupid
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Back in 2007, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling made headlines when she revealed that she has always thought of Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbeldore as gay, and that he had had a fiery love affair with the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald in his younger days. Eleven years later, Warner Bros. is still afraid to make this plot point canon. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald director David Yates has confirmed that the upcoming sequel - starring Jude Rule as Dumbledore and Johnny Depp as Grindelwald - will not be explicit about the proof that Dumbledore is gay."I think all the fans are aware of that," was Yates' somewhat feeble excuse for the decision to leave Dumbledore and Grindelwald's relationship unspoken-of. "He had a very intense connection with Grindelwald when they were immature men. They fell in love with each other's ideas, and ideology and each other." At a press conference two years prior, Rowling would only offer a "watch this space" comment when asked if the full details of Dumbledore and Grindelwald's relationship would
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This post spoils a few scenes in The Crimes of Grindelwald, to the extent there’s anything to spoil.
To the haunted saga of whether one of the fantastic “gay” characters of our time will ever actually be gay, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald adds some heady brand-new developments: a same-sex hand grasp and at least one breathy line about the nature of brotherhood. Whew! In the modern movie, the second in an apparent five-film series, we finally meet new Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law), who first appears on screen as a extravagant glove in 1920s Europe. Dumbledore’s schemes this period around lay the soon mechanics for an inevitable final standoff with Grindelwald (Johnny Depp), the series’ new baby-murdering supervillain, a fellow great w
I’ve just come support from seeing Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, and it’s a lovely lame movie. Here is my review, my in-depth critical analysis of the film:
That’s all—bye!
Just kidding. I’ll elaborate a bit. I adore the original Harry Potter series, but so far nothing in Fantastic Beasts can match it in terms of characters, excitement or emotions. Many are calling Crimes of Grindelwald the worst film in the Potterverse to go out. I actually enjoyed it a minuscule bit more than the first Fantastic Beasts, but dammit that is one low, boring bar.
In 2007, just after the release of The Deathly Hallows novel, J.K. Rowling announced Albus Dumbledore is, in reality, gay. And that he was in love with Gellert Grindelwald.
Dumbledore wasn’t in 2016’s HP prequel Fantastic Beasts and Where to Detect Them. He’s advocate in Crimes of Grindelwald, played by hunky Jude Law.
Leading up to free, there have been conflicting stories about Young Dumbledore’s sexuality onscreen.
Early reports said there would be no mention that Dumbledore is gay. Then Ezra Miller emphatically denied