June 2021: Movie Daddies
In honor of Father’s Day and Pride month, we would like to highlight our favorite movie daddies.
Dylan’s Rec
Mr. Perlman
Michael Stuhlbarg
Call Me By Your Name
Michael Stuhlbarg in Call Me By Your Name is my exact favorite flavor of ice cream: a “daddy” in every sense of the word. Yes, he’s hot in the classical sense of the “daddy” but also he’s a caring, loving, and understanding of your summer fling with an older man.
Stephanie’s Rec
Jason “Furious” Styles Jr.
Laurence Fishburne
Boyz n the Hood
From raking leaves to chasing off burglars, Furious is a protector, teacher, leader and all around daddy. He isn’t afraid to step up and be the father to his son, and a role model to all the kids in the hood.
Chris’ Rec
Gabe Wilson
Winston Duke
Us
I still have much to learn about Daddies, but it seems to me that there are two main spectrums of Daddiness - the physical and the relational. Winston Duke in Us is my ideal of both. First off, he’s all of 6’5”, 250 lbs. He’s a big man who can…what does Dylan always say…”throw me down a flight of stairs.” Second, his paternal guardian character in Us is exactly how I like strong men to be: disarmingly goofy, a partner who will protect when necessary, and ultimately very loving and caring.
Kirk’s Rec
Ben
Viggo Mortensen
Captain Fantastic
Viggo Mortensen in Captain Fantastic for being a dad and hot and teaching his gazillion children communist rhetoric while living in the woods.
Jesse’s Rec
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Sir Alec Guiness
Star Wars
For our Father’s Day round, I decided to go a bit out of character and chose a blockbuster in honor of one of my dad’s favorite movies: Star Wars. While Darth Vader of course stands tall as one of cinema’s best-known fathers both as an individual character and larger metaphor, Obi-Wan Kenobi’s relationship to Luke shines as one of the more delicate familial relationships in big budget history. The varied hats he wears for Luke as a surrogate parent, defender, white liar, tough lover, and eventual sacrificial champion commemorates the blurrily defined roles of how men show up for each other with both machismo and tenderness. It’s a relationship I’m developing with a number of people in my life after my father’s passing, and like the bond between Luke and Obi-Wan, they’re marked not by any resemblance to the connection I had with my dad but how they use pieces from that lost relationship to create something new and meaningful in its own way.